Author Topic: So this is what it’s like to get blown up (Read 368 times)

Russian · « **on:** March 15, 2007, 09:29:15 PM »

http://www.submarineboat.com/family/carl_d_jackson2.html

this is true story of a medic getting IEDed and told from own perspective. It is very interesting and I highly recommend reading it.

Regular · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2007, 09:45:39 PM »

That guy got married wearing a skirt?

JB88 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2007, 09:46:08 PM »

"Three years earlier the roads around Mahmudiya had taken on new names from the invading forces. The map now read like a subdivision that had been planned by a group of thirty year olds with roads like Harley, Softail, Metallica, and Vader."

Mark Luper · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2007, 10:02:22 PM »

Great Read!

Mark

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 16, 2007, 09:38:44 AM »

"It took less than 50 minutes from injury to surgery."

Amazing.

"The last time Scania was mortared, the local Imam rounded up the guilty parties, had them beheaded and their bodies put on display in front of the FOB. So who says the Iraqis can not control their own country?"

Halo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2007, 05:30:27 PM »

Remarkable story, thanks.

mandingo · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2007, 06:25:17 PM »

do we treat the iraqis that we blow up?

VOR · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2007, 06:57:32 PM »

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Originally posted by mandingo
do we treat the iraqis that we blow up?

Yes. The Iraqis that blow us up do not reciprocate.