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Originally Posted by Dunbar
No I'm not from SOCNET? But I did look it up. Thanks for the info.  I was injured. I had just reached my year mark for boots on ground and had just escorted a white convoy from Navistar to Tilil airbase which was a candy run for us.(get back in enough time for a little stretch before our not convoy escort). Well the AF security would not allow the non-military drivers in and we had been waiting in the holding area off camp for about three hours when our new PL told us to drive the flatbeds ourselves and help unload them so we can backhaul and get home. While alot of the equipment chained on the back of the flatbeds had moved or something causing alot of pressure and we were having a hard time get the chain bindings off so we had to use breaker bars. Well I went over to the last binding on the truck I was working on slipped on the breaker bar and the binding snapped smashing the breaker bar into my face. Broke the lower jaw and fractured teeth on the upper jaw. A bittersweet injury if ever there was one. Spent a whole year lucking out and then this happens. Saved me another 5 months of Iraq, but cost me 2 years already of medical, and took me away from my team. I'm going insane being stuck in limbo as far as life goes last couple years. I can't go forwarded in any aspect of life until the medical is done. Everything happens for a reason and I just roll with it all the way. I'm taking this time to learn and grow as much as I can. |
Same exact thing happened to my Grandfather once - except it was his lower.
Welcome aboard. Good luck.
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