Posted on 02/15/2010 2:38:41 PM PST by Sub-Driver
U.S. Marine Walks Away From Shot to Helmet in Afghanistan
By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS
MARJAH, Afghanistan—It is hard to know whether Monday was a very bad day or a very good day for Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig.
On the one hand, he was shot in the head. On the other, the bullet bounced off him.
In one of those rare battlefield miracles, an insurgent sniper hit Lance Cpl. Koenig dead on in the front of his helmet, and he walked away from it with a smile on his face.
"I don't think I could be any luckier than this," Lance Cpl. Koenig said two hours after the shooting.
Lance Cpl. Koenig's brush with death came during a day of intense fighting for the Marines of Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment.
The company had landed by helicopter in the predawn dark on Saturday, launching a major coalition offensive to take Marjah from the Taliban.
The Marines set up an outpost in a former drug lab and roadside-bomb factory and soon found themselves under near-constant attack.
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Those pussyassed General need to shove those ROEs up obambi butt or we will start paying the price.
Semper Fi.
LOL. Did he make it two distinct words?
Yes, a speech he gave a couple of weeks ago he pronounced it "Corps Man" about 7 or 8 times.
I’d read that he fouled it up by pronouncing it corpseman instead of corpsman, but I hadn’t heard that he made it into two words.
He’s an American patriot of which there are very few left outside our military.
Not luck. Re-read what Cpl. Ahrens says. God is sovereign even over sniper bullets.
I like the story but I question the wisdom of giving the enemy reports on the performance of their munitions. I would rather them think they are killing their targets than have Iran upgrade their weapons.
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