Posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by paulat
Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan By RUTH REISS
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One RPG skidded past Lt. Mariani's vehicle. All of the vehicles had to quickly get out of the "kill zone." But before they could get to safety, two rockets hit Pvt. Moss' Humvee.
Staff Sgt. Eric Wynn, 33, the soldier in the front passenger seat, felt one slice through his face. Moss remembers the truck practically lift up. He was thrown up against the Humvee and then moved to return fire.
"I smelled something smoking and I looked down ... and I was smoking," he said.
Wynn turned to tell Moss where to fire and saw the tail fins of the RPG sticking out of Moss' side.
Roughly the length of a baseball bat, an RPG travels at the speed of a bullet. At the front end is the warhead -- a large grenade. The detonator and fuel are contained in the shaft. On the back are its fins, pieces of metal that stick out like legs on a camera tripod. The RPG is the weapon of choice for many of the world's guerillas.
Luckily for Moss, the company medic Spc. Jared Angell, 23, who the soldiers call "Doc," was in his Humvee
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A Human Bomb The RPG that had plowed into Moss' lower abdomen stretched from one hip to the other. If the RPG went off, it would kill everyone within 30 feet of him. Yet Angell stayed close, bandaging his wounds and stabilizing the weapon so that movement wouldn't cause it to explode.
Moss was still fully conscious, so Angell ordered him to not look down at the injury. He didn't want Moss to panic.
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Wow. Slow day on the UT. I would’ve been here sooner but I was updating the church website and needed to make up some new graphics. And now I have to go online with the work laptop to be sure I’m ready for the 6 AM teleconference tomorrow.
Yepper...and I’m not going to be here much longer, either. I’m going to sign off and head for beddy-bye.
I’ll be here tomorrow, for sure!
Well, maybe I’ll have another picture then. Took one this afternoon, but haven’t looked at it yet.
No I won’t. Not worth posting. Oh well.
We used to have a little electric heater that I used in the coldest room during the winter. We never used it in this house, so I gave it to a church sale last year. Everyone except Vlad is big enough to stay under the covers now, and he’s comfortable in the closet, with a heat register and no drafts.
Don’t know what happened to our electric heater. But these days the coldest room has a woodstove I can fire up.
We have a natural gas fire in the dining room. It warms things up in the mornings, when it’s really cold!
In the morning I either goose the heat up to 64F (like right now) or (if the power is out) light one or both woodstoves.
Do you get a lot of power outages?
It’s going to be in the 80’s today, so I’m wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Not worth finding warmer clothes for the morning ...
Several times in winter, but more than a few hours — maybe once a year.
Good Manic Monday Morning!
Good morning to you, too! It’s been pretty clam, here, although the catz are getting hostile now because they ate all their food!
Morning, kiddies.
60 degrees, here. Supposed to be in the 80’s today, but I don’t believe it.
Howya! Lunchtime already for boyz and catz.
I’m still trying to decide if I want breakfast ot not....
I think you do.
That must be the Mom talking! LOL!
Drizzly here. Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous—mid 70s, a little breezy, and not a cloud in the sky.
Did I ever say how Fall is my favorite time of year?
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