{"id":30250,"date":"2012-06-04T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30250"},"modified":"2012-06-04T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:22:28","slug":"a-whole-series-of-heroes-save-one-lcpls-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30250","title":{"rendered":"A whole series of heroes save one LCPL’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

SGT E sends us a link to the UK’s Daily Mail<\/a> which tells the story of a Marine, Lance Corporal Winder Perez who had a live grenade imbedded in his leg and a whole host of heroes who saved his life;<\/p>\n

After Corporal Perez was wounded, a Black Hawk helicopter transported him from the field to a makeshift operating room surrounded by blast walls.<\/p>\n

‘Not only did we know we had to make a soft landing, we had to fly at whatever air speed caused the least amount of vibration,’ Captain Kevin Doo said to Fox.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Lieutenant Commander James Gennari] held the [M]arine’s hand, dosing him with enough pain medicine so that [Army Staff Sergeant Ben Summerfield] could pull out the grenade.<\/p>\n

He attempted to remove it three times, tugging at the dangerous device, before he finally got it out.<\/p>\n

‘I said a prayer, and I thanked God for everything I had…’ Lieutenant Commander Gennari told CNN.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took real heroes to load LCPL Perez into the helicopter, it took heroes to fly the Marine-bomb to the hospital, it took heroes to take him behind the blast walls and it took heroes to extract the explosive from Perez’ leg. Perez is fortunate that he was in the company of heroes that day, because the article reports that Perez survived.<\/p>\n

A CNN interview with Lieutenant Commander Gennari;<\/p>\n

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