Posted on Dec 24, 2023
Army recruiter’s calm nerves save man with severed leg after truck crash
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Good for this SFC and he should be proud of his actions.. His keeping his cool and treating the victim properly saved the man's life.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
I had a similar situation occur while I was home on leave from 'Nam. My best friend (son of a Reno PD LT and himself a Reno PD corporal at the time) decided to backpack into a secluded lake in the Sierras below Lake Tahoe above Carson City. I was carrying an SKS I brought home with me and he had a 9mm strapped to his hip. Being a cop, he always carried loaded.
As we were pulling our rucks on, I heard a shot behind me. My friend had managed to snag his trigger and discharged a round. It went into his right glute, went behind the knee and came out through a large wound on the inside of his leg just above his boot. Both of our girlfriends shrieked and I quickly pulled off my belt and used it to make a tourniquet above the entry wound.
Our ride was still there with his pickup, so we loaded my friend onto the bed and I rode down with him in back while the girls went in the cab. We were both wearing jungle fatigues and when we got to Washoe Med's ER a nurse asked me what happened. I jokingly told her load enough for all to hear, "We're in the Guard and we were on a field exercise."
That got a lot of laughs . . .
He wound up having to wear a cast for four months and spent another eight months on light duty before going back on patrol. . . .
As we were pulling our rucks on, I heard a shot behind me. My friend had managed to snag his trigger and discharged a round. It went into his right glute, went behind the knee and came out through a large wound on the inside of his leg just above his boot. Both of our girlfriends shrieked and I quickly pulled off my belt and used it to make a tourniquet above the entry wound.
Our ride was still there with his pickup, so we loaded my friend onto the bed and I rode down with him in back while the girls went in the cab. We were both wearing jungle fatigues and when we got to Washoe Med's ER a nurse asked me what happened. I jokingly told her load enough for all to hear, "We're in the Guard and we were on a field exercise."
That got a lot of laughs . . .
He wound up having to wear a cast for four months and spent another eight months on light duty before going back on patrol. . . .
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