Medic's bloody hand, holding sniper's bullet, on frontpage of NY Times

[DeepModem Mom]

Medic Aids Fallen Marine With Skill and a Prayer
By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: November 2, 2006

KARMA, Iraq, Oct. 30 — Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby clutched the injured marine’s empty helmet. His hands were coated in blood. Sweat ran down his face, which he was trying to keep straight but kept twisting into a snarl.

He held up the helmet and flipped it, exposing the inside. It was lined with blood and splinters of bone....

Petty Officer Kirby, 22, is a Navy corpsman, the trauma medic assigned to Second Mobile Assault Platoon of Weapons Company, Second Battalion, Eighth Marines. Everyone calls him Doc. He had just finished treating a marine who had been shot by an Iraqi sniper....

He put the bullet in his breast pocket, to give to an intelligence team later. Sweat kept rolling off his face, mixed with tears. His voice was almost cracking, but he managed to control it and keep it deep. “When I got there, there wasn’t much I could do,” he said.

Then he nodded. He seemed to be talking to himself. “I kept him breathing,” he said....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/world/middleeast/02medic.html?ref=todayspaper

[pooja]

1. Damn, these guys are going to come back so fucked up nothing

is going to help them.

[Hepburn]

2. Fuck you, George Bush......

......Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!!

Your lies, your jokes, your wish for power and more power. Look what you have caused. Take a long hard look...and I hope you remember it through an eternity in hell.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Powerful picture and story.

Take that, Sludge.

[magellan]

4. The real insult to injury

...will be if intelligence finds that bullet came from one of the 14,000 unaccounted for US weapons.

FUB, and all your incompetent cronies!!

:cry:

[atreides1]

5. I'm willing to bet....

....that Petty Officer Kirby likes to joke about the insurgents that the members of his platoon have killed. And I'm sure most snipers don't regret having to kill their targets as well.


"But seeing this now, what happened to Smith, I want to hurt people. You know what I mean?”

I wonder if Petty Officer Kirby ever wonders about how the Iraqis feel when his platoon fires on them? Probably not.

It's all fun and games until it's you and yours that get tagged, then it's not fun anymore.

Wake up call Petty Officer Kirby, you are the enemy and they are doing the same thing to you that you are trying to do to them.

[Binka]

6. Karma Iraq? Jesus This Is Fecking Surreal n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I noticed that dateline. nt

[Solly Mack]

8. Popped right out there didn't it?

I was like whoah...