Bill Ardolino reports from Iraq on the Corpsmen

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INDC blogger, Bill Ardolino, reports from Iraq in the Examiner about the role of Corpsmen in this fight.

...“Is he going to live?” I asked a Marine standing by on the fringes of the press. 

“Dunno, his guts are hanging out.”

The two corpsmen ripped his blouse open and pulled up a white undershirt. Then they rolled the man on his side, gauging the bullet’s path.

“It’s in his vest,” said a Marine, holding it up.

A flat, nickel-sized piece of lead was embedded in the inside of the kevlar, making the wound a “through-in-through.”

Corpsman HN Jerad “Doc J” Jurgensmier bandaged the exit wound with an abdominal pressure dressing. HM3 Joshua “Scuba Steve” Watson located the pinhole-sized entrance wound in the man’s lower back — an unlucky inch below the body armor’s ceramic protection...

Read the whole piece here.

And, on his blog, he posts a photo of himself with some American police advisors...

He goes on patrol in Anbar with the Gators - a post chock full of photos.

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Bill Ardolino reports from Iraq on the Corpsmen

INDC blogger, Bill Ardolino, reports from Iraq in the Examiner about the role of Corpsmen in this fight.

...“Is he going to live?” I asked a Marine standing by on the fringes of the press. 

“Dunno, his guts are hanging out.”

The two corpsmen ripped his blouse open and pulled up a white undershirt. Then they rolled the man on his side, gauging the bullet’s path.

“It’s in his vest,” said a Marine, holding it up.

A flat, nickel-sized piece of lead was embedded in the inside of the kevlar, making the wound a “through-in-through.”

Corpsman HN Jerad “Doc J” Jurgensmier bandaged the exit wound with an abdominal pressure dressing. HM3 Joshua “Scuba Steve” Watson located the pinhole-sized entrance wound in the man’s lower back — an unlucky inch below the body armor’s ceramic protection...

Read the whole piece here.

And, on his blog, he posts a photo of himself with some American police advisors...

He goes on patrol in Anbar with the Gators - a post chock full of photos.

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