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09-27-2011, 09:43 PM
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OT - Taking a grenade to the face
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09-27-2011, 09:47 PM
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09-27-2011, 10:06 PM
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"Doctor, I have a toothache!"
Very, very lucky girl. I'm reminded of a video we saw back in the army of a medical team in Vietnam. Two instances spring to mind - one of a man who's jaw was shattered and looked like it was completely blown away. A few hours in surgery and half a tonne of wire and screws later and if it wasn't for the stitches you'd barely know he'd been hit. The other is of a man with the tail end of a 7.62 bullet peeking out the tear duct of his eye. Obviously hit at the extreme range of the round, if he'd been one step closer it'd have penetrated his brain and killed him.
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09-27-2011, 10:09 PM
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Your first kiss from her could be the last kiss you ever get...
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09-27-2011, 10:13 PM
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A few months later, a medical drama had the same situation on one of its episodes, except that it was some kind of stray explosive.
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09-27-2011, 10:59 PM
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We've heard the recent one about the soldier in Afghanistan who came in with an RPG round through his abdomen, right?
The warhead was gone, but the arming charge could have gone off.
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09-30-2011, 04:20 PM
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Other Yikes Stories
The story reminds me of a sidebar in a book about the Vietnam War. The story was about doctors who operated on a wounded ARVN grunt, who had an unexploded mortar bomb (66mm I think) stuck inside his ribcage.
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09-30-2011, 06:45 PM
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I think it was this news story had inspired an episode of one of those Medical Drama Shows.
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09-30-2011, 09:27 PM
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I think I remember seeing an episode of China Beach (anyone remember that show? I had mixed feelings about it, felt Tour of Duty was better) where they more or less had a scenario like you described Paul. The doctor had to take a live friggin mortar round out of a patient. Of course, what does the doctor do? After taking it out, he doesn't just gingerly set it down in a designated area away from the tent that's been closed off and sandbagged in case it detonates, he RUNS out the damn tent with the mortar round and chucks it away into the dirt....and yes, it detonates. Leave it to TV to needlessly amp up the drama. 
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10-21-2011, 03:00 AM
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it also was in MASH. and in blackhawk down, and in about a dozen other shows/movies involving the military(particularly military hospitals)
guess quake is wrong bout what happens when you shoot someone with a rocket launcher.
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10-23-2011, 10:04 PM
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I've been busy but does anyone else remember the Marine in WWII on Iwo Jima who jumped on a grenade then pulled a second under himself and survived?
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10-24-2011, 03:26 AM
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