{"id":38709,"date":"2013-12-03T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:07:36","slug":"abc-news-gis-survive-hidden-bombs-with-gadgets-guts-and-dumb-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38709","title":{"rendered":"ABC News: GIs Survive Hidden Bombs With Gadgets, Guts and ‘Dumb Luck’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good folks at ABC News are doing their best to remind folks that there is still war in Afghanistan, that American sons and daughters are still doing their best to have a successful outcome there. They sent us a link to an article written by James Gordon Meeks entitled “GIs Survive Hidden Bombs With Gadgets, Guts and ‘Dumb Luck’<\/a>“. Meeks accompanies a patrol of 10th Mountain Division’s Cav scouts;<\/p>\n

“Nobody is demanding this of me,” I thought, weighing the risks from the unseen bombs, and seeing my babies’ precious little faces when I closed my eyes the night before. “There isn’t a gun to my head. I don’t have to do this.”<\/p>\n

But my fear and apprehension dissolved at sunrise, when I considered that those young and inspiring American troopers didn’t have to do this, either.<\/p>\n

They were all volunteers facing the Taliban’s proliferating IEDs, including the 19-year-old from the Louisiana bayou his buddies called “Savvy,” who made up a personal trauma kit for me to carry — tourniquets and bandages — and offered to take point in front of the others just because his four whole months of experience facing this threat might actually save our lives.<\/p>\n

Savvy had just returned to his platoon from the hospital at Kandahar Airfield after earning his second Purple Heart from an IED blast. He’d been knocked down on his keister by another one, when a U.S. sniper he’d just spoken to stepped on a pressure-plate IED on patrol and was blown in half — fatally — by the hidden bomb underfoot. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But you should click over and read the rest to encourage ABC News to do the job they’re doing and keep us on their mailing list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good folks at ABC News are doing their best to remind folks that there is …