True story, you have to read it. Amazing....


http://www.marines.mil/unit/imef/Pages/MarineabsorbsIEDblast,walksaway.aspx

He was lucky - very lucky to have survived that unscathed... Blessings...

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2006 Honda Pilot - wife's ride; 122K;
1995 Toyota Land Cruiser - 3X locked; 182K

"All you have to do is make it out of here and every day for the rest of your life is gravy"
S/F Capt.

Wow talk about the devils luck!

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Chris Taylor: It's the way the whole thing works, people like Elias get wasted, people like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry s**t, King.

King: Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here. It's all gravy, everyday the rest of your life, gravy.

I had to paraphrase it. Couldn't find the exact quote.

you did well; the quote rocks....

Does that.
And I guess the Capt. might be in line for a role if they make a sequel to The Hurt Locker. Great flick. Seen it?

saw The Hurt Locker & liked it, even overlooked some technical details, as it was quite entertaining.

Wait a few Months and the long term brain stem injuries will begin to show up.

No short term memory.
Inability to perform basic math calculations.
Inability to control muscles in hands and feet.

The human body was never designed to absorb the blast of an IED and all the body armor/kevlar helmets do is allow the body to spasm within the shell (think of a boxers brain after a uppercut or right cross) your skull stops moving but your brain is still rotating back and forth or up and down, each movement breaks another nerve connection in the Medulla connection to your spinal column.

and one day you wake up and cannot remember how to tie your shoes...

Happened to a friend's kid brother 6 months after he got back from Kandahar after their MPV was blown 30 feet into the air by a SMALL IED.