In Full Swing

Oh sure, so the "fighting season" is in full swing. You know you're dealing w/hardcore fighters when they dedicate a season to it...

the rounds impacted the FOB shortly after 10am... I think. Two locals were brought in immediately, one with a skull fracture with exposed brain matter and the other with a large flesh wound on his lower right leg and an evisceration to the lower left quadrant of his abdomen. The head injury guy was an elderly man, was mentating well and was conscious/not in a whole lot of pain. The other was one of the shop keepers - I believe I purchased my cell phone from him - a well liked guy by the locals who work on base and some of the soldiers. He came in extremely pale. the challenge from yesterday was evac'ing the two. Since they were locals and not injured by us forces, we'd have to convince a US hospital to take them. our doc spoke to the docs at Jbad and Bagram and both facilities agreed to take them. This was a time consuming process and that I believe jeopordized both casualties' survival rates. We finally evac'd both. The head injury guys survived and the other didin't. Its tremendously unfortunate. There was probably some internal bleeding we oculdn't get to w/o surgery. It sucks. I was however extremely proud of the guys' performance. Things clicked and went quite smoothly.


Alex is right about the "twelve inches forward eleven inches back" sort of thing.