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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
I don't think I've ever been actually zapped with MILES, though I got assessed as a casualty twice in one JRTC rotation for other stuff (mortars and then one of the OPFOR helos).
I have stopped a truck load of simunitions along the way though. Those things suck.
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I've had that happen a couple of times during NTC rotations -- once I was assessed as a non-fatal, but serious Sarin casualty, and another time, a judge noted that while I was kneeling on the ground near a track pulling out, my hand was very near to the tracks. He gave me a "crushed hand," I think to teach me a lesson more than anything else.
And then during an NTC rotation, I actually got a real, serious injury -- I fell off the top of an M-577 during a firefight and dislocated my right shoulder and cracked two ribs. At the aid station, I asked the PA to just put the damn thing back in socket and tape up my ribs, and he did it. Now in my old age, I have unending pain in my right shoulder, requiring one surgery already, having two permanently-damaged nerves, and muscle mass loss from the nerve damage. Let that be a lesson to you young guys who think you're invincible -- take care of your injuries!