SPC Channing Moss -- Still Here

Posted By Subsunk

A good story here. We've all heard stories or seen movies from the old days where medical personnel operate to save someone's life while live ordnance is embedded inside them. Here's a particularly good story.

March 16, 2006. Southeastern Afghanistan. A fierce ambush and bloody firefight. It was over in a flash and Moss was left on the verge of death. He was impaled through the abdomen with a rocket-propelled grenade, and an aluminum rod with one tail fin protruded from the left side of his torso. His fellow soldiers worried: Could he blow up and take them with him? For all anyone knew, the answer was yes. Still, over the course of the next couple of hours, his buddies, a helicopter crew and a medical team would risk their own lives to save his.

Read it and be thankful you live in a country defended by these folks.

There's even video of the operation.

Is this a great country or what?

Subsunk out.

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SPC Channing Moss -- Still Here

A good story here. We've all heard stories or seen movies from the old days where medical personnel operate to save someone's life while live ordnance is embedded inside them. Here's a particularly good story.

March 16, 2006. Southeastern Afghanistan. A fierce ambush and bloody firefight. It was over in a flash and Moss was left on the verge of death. He was impaled through the abdomen with a rocket-propelled grenade, and an aluminum rod with one tail fin protruded from the left side of his torso. His fellow soldiers worried: Could he blow up and take them with him? For all anyone knew, the answer was yes. Still, over the course of the next couple of hours, his buddies, a helicopter crew and a medical team would risk their own lives to save his.

Read it and be thankful you live in a country defended by these folks.

There's even video of the operation.

Is this a great country or what?

Subsunk out.

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