Text 27907, 40 rader
Skriven 2007-03-18 08:05:14 av Bob Ackley (1:2905/3)
  Kommentar till text 27874 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: The Army is ordering inju
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Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 VH>>>> In 1969 I was wounded when an RPG-7 went through my command track.
 VH>>>> Among other things, I had a compound fracture of my collar bone. 
 VH>>>> I went back to the company the next day.  Eight days later I was
 VH>>>> wounded again when we hit an anti-tank mine.  The barely-knit
 VH>>>> collar bone was re-fractured, and several ribs were broken.  It
 VH>>>> took three days for me to reach an aid station -- and I was back
 VH>>>> in the company the next day.

 VH>>>> I commanded that company for another month and a half with a broken
 VH>>>> collarbone and taped ribs.

 EH>>> Oh my!

 EH>>> That darn Army! How could they make you serve wounded?

 BA>> I'm sure he'd've been evacuated if he'd asked to be.  I'll bet that
 BA>> he *demanded* to be returned to his unit.  Many people are like
 BA>> that, loyal to the people they serve with and v-e-r-y reluctant to
 BA>> leave them, for any reason, and especially when the unit is exposed
 BA>> to danger.  Especially true for some officers in command positions.

 EH> Why not ask Vern instead of assuming so much?

There are *many* stories of officers and enlisted staying with their units
after having been wounded, going back to at least WW II.  And I've *met*
Vern, and given that IMO it's something he would do.

 BA>> There was a story 15 or more years ago about future general
 BA>> Schwartzkopf crawling out under fire to rescue one of his troops
 BA>> who'd been wounded and was down.  Put himself in extreme danger of
 BA>> personal injury to try to save one of his people.

 EH> That's what makes him a true leader.

And Vern.  And *not* most of the chowderheads that are running this country.

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