Thing to remember, Rocket, Wire, Battery, because Battery, Wire, Rocket hurts.

My base was rocketed on a June night in 2005. The next day, we find out that a patrol found our rocketeer, and discovered why only one rocket had been fired. It seems that our rocketeer, immediately dubbed Crispy, had hooked up the rocket incorrectly. See, he was supposed to have hooked the wire to the rocket, and then to the battery to ignite the fuse. Crispy forgot...and hooked the rocket up first, and was standing behind the rocket when he connected it to the battery. His entire left side, both hands, and ALL of his sensitive areas got flash fried.

Amazingly he survived the night. An American patrol picked him up, and brought him back. The docs said he was burned on over 35% of his body, and in the states in a good burn facility, he would have had about a 70% chance of survival. In Afghanistan, especially after we delivered him to the local hospital...he had almost no chance, and he died one week after his aborted attack.

Another note...burn wounds require clean, dry bandages, with no petroleum jelly. Nor are burn patients prescribed prophylactic antibiotics. For whatever reason, the Afghan docs could not grasp both those concepts simultaneously.

Well, the fate of Crispy did not sit terribly well with his family. In October, Crispy's uncle decided that he would take on the entire base, with a grand total of two hand grenades.

Yeah, that worked about as well as you could expect.

Submitted on 10/04/2014

Submitted by: Michael
Reference: June-October 2005

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James said:
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I rather like this one! I'll keep it as a PA! Thanks Michael!

Candi said:
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