More proof that our soldiers are tough as nails and have, well, GUTS.
From the Daily Mail:
Private Moss was on patrol in Paktika Province in Eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, March 16, when his unit was attacked – likely by Al Qaeda or Taliban insurgents – in a mountainous region bordering Pakistan.
Around 24 men from the 10th Mountain Division’s Alpha Company were driving a convoy of five Humvee armoured vehicles and a pick-up truck, containing Afghan National Army troops, when they were hit first by gunfire and then by a hail of Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPG’s).
The pick-up truck exploded, killing two of the Afghan soldiers, and as the rockets struck Moss’ Humvee, the gunner recalls being thrown against the wall of the vehicle.
‘I smelled something smoking and I looked down… and I was smoking,’ he told ABC News in a documentary.
An RPG, a mini-missile around the length of a cricket bat, had entered through one of Moss’ hips and its tip – a large grenade – was protruding from his opposite hip.
Somehow it had not detonated on impact, but if it exploded it would kill everyone in a 30ft radius.
In the first of two major strokes of luck, the convoy’s only medic, Jared Angell, was in the vehicle with Moss and able to treat him immediately, bandaging his wounds and stabilinsg the RPG to ensure it didn’t move around.
Read the full story here.