Book is WAR HEROES: Voices from Afghanistan .

The story is about PVT Channing Moss, who was impaled by a live RPG (rocket propelled grenade) during a Taliban ambush while on patrol. Army regulations say that MEDEVAC choppers are never to carry anyone with a live round in him. Even though they feared it could explode, the flight crew said damn the protocol and flew him to the nearest aid station.

Again, regulations say that in such a case the patient is to be put in a sandbagged area away from the surgical unit, given a shot of morphine and left to wait (and die) until others are treated. Again, the medical team ignored the protocol. Here's a seven-minute video put together by the Military Times, which includes actual footage of the surgery where Dr. John Oh, a Korean immigrant who became a naturalized citizen and went to West Point , removed the live round with the help of volunteers and a member of the EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) team.

Moss has undergone six operations but is doing well at home in Gainesville , GA. This is one of the most amazing stories. I think you'll find the video pretty remarkable.

http://www.militarytimes.com/m...a/video/rpg_surgery/

Yikes! That must have hurt like hell!

I saw a still photo from Vietnam where they were working in a Vietnamese soldier in a sandbagged enclosure. He had what looked like a 60mm mortar round stuck under the skin from his lower right chest down to about mid-abdomen. Apparently it dropped on him and entered about the middle of his collar bone without detonating.

All I can say is, there are some guys with stones. They all deserve a medal, minimum.

I've seen the photo I believe it was in one of the time life books on Vietnam

I would guess he's used up all nine of em in one go! that's what you call grit on everyone's part!

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Originally posted by SR4759:
I saw a still photo from Vietnam where they were working in a Vietnamese soldier in a sandbagged enclosure. He had what looked like a 60mm mortar round stuck under the skin from his lower right chest down to about mid-abdomen. Apparently it dropped on him and entered about the middle of his collar bone without detonating.

I remember seeing that on television during the war.