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"I looked everybody in the eye and said, 'You guys understand what's going on here, right?' And I knew everybody heard me, but nobody said anything. They just kept doing their jobs," he said.

Makes my Marcia Brady story look like a frozen cube of dog puke.

nice one

I felt really conflicted reading this because none of this has to be...these soldiers don't have to be dying, shouldn't be...but by the end of the article, this summed up my feeling:

"He was American, he was a solider, he was a brother and he was one of us. And there was nothing gonna stop us from doing what we knew what we had to do … We knew we did right. In that screwed up world we did something right," Brown said."

I'm glad none of them got in trouble for breaking protocol to save this soldier. I'm glad they were awarded medals.

Great, GREAT story, 2man! I love posts like this, very uplifting and makes me even more proud of our uber brave soldiers!!

Makes Dangerman's Marcia Brady story look like a frozen cube of dog puke.

Awesome post.

I saw this on 20/20 last night. The theme was "Tough Decisions". They made a very tough decision. But it was the right one. I think they were being watched over. Great post!

This was absolutely incredible.

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I was correct.

Very touching story. Way better than that frozen cube of dog vomir dangerman posted about marcia brady.

Unbelievable.

The medals they got are definitely deserved. Isn't the Medal of Valor pretty much the second highest medal you can get ? Anyhoo, well deserved.

I hate that kids are dying over there as well...


I am torn with this one. As a medic myself we triage. Save those who can be saved and definately not risk others to do so. It is one of the hardest things we have to do.

Triage

Yet, I could not walk away from someone who was looking at me in that condition.

I sit in total amazement that a 23 yr old medic (of which I was a corpman in the Navy..same thing) did what he did. I have a KID that age.

Our paying sports players millions of dollars every yr is screwed up, dont'cha think?

These guys have lives in their hands and they get the job done. This is the stuff you cannot look up in a textbook. As a medic, you have to figure out how to fix and stablize stuff that you would never imagine would happen to people.

It's obscene what is going on there and yes, sports players, celebrities making millions...that's just a miscarriage of justice.

I am amazed there aren't complete mental breakdowns for the medics both out of the military and in. I have a vague idea of what goes on (my mom being a nurse) and I often wonder how anyone can handle it.

As I read this story, I tried to put myself in the place of any one of the people that made the decision to save him. (I couldn't possibly imagine being him though...gah!) I don't know what I would have done, it'd have to be a pure adrenaline moment, so impossible to say unless you're involved. But with him being conscious the whole time...how could you not try to save him?

It's astounding.

It is the adrenaline that gets you through these things....if you were to actually sit there and analyze what you are seeing or have to do, you couldn't perform what needed to be done.

As long as you have the "cookbook/recipe/plan" in your head, you focus on your training and don't look at the person, or think about anything other than the outcome you would like to see.

That is the way I get thru it, anyways....

And yes, we have to live with things other people do not. I have been with people at the absolute worst times of their lives and sometimes at the end of their lives. I have had people grab my arm and ask me to not let them die and sometimes it is out of my control to prevent that.

You just try to exude the confidence and calmness that will make their situation less stressful.

The returning war soldiers do suffer from PTSD, and unfortunately, many are sent back, and man are not getting the help they need.