Tag: wounded

  • Soldier Uses Prosthetic Leg As Monopod

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    Talk about adapting: Unfortunaly no none ever sources their pics, so I have no idea where this is from.  I assume it is some sort of wounded warrior program. The gun appears to be a HK G3A3.

  • Warrior Games For Wounded Soldiers

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    Heartbreaking to see young men wounded so severely while serving our country. Angel Barcenas and William Gibson of the Marines wish each other good luck prior to their 1,500 Meter run during the 2010 Warrior Games for wounded soldiers on Friday 05/14/10 at U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Full set of photos…

  • Pig Bladder Dust Helps Regrow Limbs Of Wounded Soldiers

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    Pig bladders contain a substance called extra cellular matrix, which is made up largely of collagen. Scientists have already used powdered pig bladders help grow replacement human bladders. But researchers working for the American military realised the substance might also help hundreds of wounded soldiers. Full Story – HERE So not only does bacon come…

  • Army Warrior Transition Units

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    The New York Times has a heartbreaking report on the Army Warrior Transition Units: For many soldiers, they have become warehouses of despair, where damaged men and women are kept out of sight, fed a diet of powerful prescription pills and treated harshly by noncommissioned officers. Because of their wounds, soldiers in Warrior Transition Units…

  • More Apache Helicopter Reuters Photographer Incident Info

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    Yesterday when I reported on the leak of the video footage, for some reason I attached the edited video rather than the full one.  The edited video is more of a “highlights reel”. Here is the full 40 minute unedited video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik[/youtube] I stayed out of the discussion on the previous post, and I’m going…

  • WikiLeaks Publishes Disturbing U.S. Military Apache Helicopter Footage

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    WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people (July 12, 2007) in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.…