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April 29, 2005
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Posted by Bill

Pull on Superman's Cape has a new author. His first post is here, and check out this excerpt from a comment that he'd previously made as a visitor to the site:

We engaged in a fierce fight with five insurgents across the street. It was roof top to roof top. Then out of no were the house next to us opened up and pinned us down. My Sniper partner and myself stormed the third story roof killing two insurgents. Once on top of the third story the Marines started moving across to the second deck. First over was Shane. No sooner had he crossed over the wall I heard him scream for help. I looked over the edge and saw him holding his head, still screaming. I did what any true Marine loving Corpsman would do, I went after him to pull him out of the line of fire and treat his wound. I never made it to Shane though. I hung my feet over the third deck to jump to the second were Shane was no lying motionless. As I started to slide off It felt like a sledge hammer smashed into my right thigh, and it went limp. No sooner the same feeling in my right calf. It hit me, I'm being shot! I looked for a way to get out of the insurgents path and chose to jump off the side of the building. Before I could make the move My left leg went limp as more AK-47 rounds went through the upper thigh, calf and foot. As I was falling the insurgents rounds found target again, two round to the lower right abdomin and two round to the upper groin. I fell two stories and dislocated my right shoulder.

And he's now alive to blog about it.

Posted by Bill at April 29, 2005 09:20 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Thanks for the link Bill. I'm looking forward to hearing more stories from James.

Posted by: Emcee [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 29, 2005 01:47 PM

Hey, John Kerry?

That's a purple heart story.

Thanks for the link, Bill. Looks like good stuff.

The funny thing about Hospital Corpsmen? For all the grief we Marines like to give them in garrison, they have this annoying habit of morphing into superstars during combat.

Posted by: Kadnine [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 29, 2005 03:26 PM