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Old 11-14-2002, 01:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Systems Two soldiers killed in exercise...
Just saw this on Excite.com...

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D7N9V24O1.html

How horrible..........

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Old 11-14-2002, 01:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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How sad

I can't imagine how much that must affect the people involved in this horrible accident.
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Old 11-14-2002, 02:01 PM   #3 (permalink)
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When I was stationed at Fort Polk we had a guy get run over by an Armored Personnel Carrier (basically a small tank). He was in a sleeping bag on wet ground. The cushion from the wet ground and the fact that the sleeping bag was pressed right into his guts minimizing the bleeding saved him, but he was pretty messed up. Paralyzed. Lost several organs.
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Ugggg! It is a dangerous business that millitary stuff.
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It is sad whenever we lose soldiers/ airmen/ sailors.
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Old 11-14-2002, 03:38 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I'm wondering how it's possible to be run over by a vehicle that sounds like an aircraft engine.

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Old 11-14-2002, 06:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Those tanks turn on a dime. If they were running beside and the driver turned all of a sudden they wouldn't have had time to get out of the way.

If they were sleeping it's pretty easy to sleep thru a tank rolling by you believe it or not. I fell asleep once on top of a roll of barbwire on top of a moving tank. Only getting 2 hours of sleep a night for several days in a row causes you to do strange things.
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Quote:
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Only getting 2 hours of sleep a night for several days in a row causes you to do strange things.
Hence your avatar? j/k...

Like Epidemic pointed out, the Military is inherently dangerous...but given the possibilities and the numbers, one has to be amazed at how well things are managed, since we can truly (and happily) say, these kind of occurances are pretty rare.
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well it looks very possible wart
that is awful.


I don't think I could ever sleep on moving barbed wire
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Sad when a fair percentage of our casualties in war and in peace are from ourselves granted it means we're not losing folks out in the field against the enemy but it really sucks we're losing them to our own guys
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