10-13-2013, 11:28
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Awesomeness.
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10-13-2013, 11:40
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#257
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Area Commander
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I smile every time you update. Keep kicking ass J.
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10-13-2013, 11:59
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Brother Thanks for this post. Nice news and the spirit in which us military will push ourselves while others will lay down and quit.
Never quit brother. . Thanks for the motivation!!!
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History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
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Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
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10-13-2013, 12:00
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Congradulations on your recovery Surgicalcric.
May the force be with you. 
Last edited by mojaveman; 10-13-2013 at 12:05.
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10-13-2013, 12:29
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Quiet Professional
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Location: Deep South
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In my opinion, Chester Nimitz's quote, "Uncommon valor was a common virtue," surely applies to your experiences in this last year. I am proud to know you.
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
"So you have enemies. Good. You must have stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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10-13-2013, 12:57
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: FT Bragg, NC
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Stay Strong
My best wishes go out to you and your family.
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10-13-2013, 13:16
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Surgicalcric
Well it's been almost a year (14 Oct 2012) since my initial injury and 18 days left til my alive date (28 Oct 2012). Honestly I cannot believe it's been almost a year since I looked down and thought, "fuck, that was an IED! Oh well, guess I gotta do something."
I was asked recently by a high school educator, "what makes someone not quit? What makes them pick themselves up and drive on after having their legs knocked out from under them?" She didnt know I was an amputee at the time but talk about taking a pause for a little introspection. My answer, personally I think it is any number of reasons: personal drive, the way you were raised from childhood, dedication to those around you whether they be family or team mates, situation you are in at the time, pride, etc... But no matter your reason they all share one thing in common, the decision point where you do something about it. For me there was really never a question - I never gave the idea of quitting any thought. Pain can often become debilitating if not dealt with to the point that I have watched people ask (Walter Reed's ICU and in theater) to die because they were in so much pain.
I don't understand it. Maybe I just wasn't in that much pain. I put a TQ on my left leg, made certain my battle rifle was in battery, moved into cover, and started tending to my jacked up pelvis/perineum all the while giving my team sergeant directions to where I was, after calling "eagle down" over the net. In talking to my team sergeant it is guesstimated that between the blast site and the CCP inside the VSP I lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-2.5 liters of my blood volume before hemostasis was gained on my pelvic bleeders. All the while I am talking to my team mates, directing the setting out of security, hanging IV fluids and prepping the FAST IO injector for use on me, giving destruction plan directions, and explaining the combinations on the safes where the 1208 money and extra narcs were stored. Intermingled with taking care of business I was telling jokes and explaining to my Sr Weapons guy, who was clearly bothered by what happened to me and what he was watching happen to me with regards to treatment, to toughen the fuck up and I would be back later that night - a joke referencing back two weeks with my getting caught making my own flight plans to get back with my team after my first IED encounter.
Looking back, laying down and accepting others treating me while still capable of helping those helping would have been me quitting - that's not anything I was ready to do. About training we often repeat the axiom about falling back to our lowest level of proficiency under duress - I wish everyone could have understand t the way some if us do.
So stand I here almost a year and 47 surgeries later readying myself to step "Unto the Breech" once more. To that end I am in the gym 3-4x week, running 3x week, and rucking twice. I took a diagnostic APFT a couple days ago: 78 p/u, 68 s/u (after having to put my leg back on -gotta fix that sweating/slipping issue), and a 15:05 run. My 12 mile ruck time was 3hrs 14min. Looks like I will begin clearing WRNMMC on or about 20 Oct with a report date at 7th SFG(A) around 01 Nov 2013. I am so looking forward to being back with like-minded individuals, other SF soldiers and actually having a training center with a series of SMEs in various disciplines to assist me with getting to the next level in my recovery.
Quitting can be found between losing and winning for those looking for it.
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Crip - 28 Oct and 11-14Nov are dates that will hold a lot of memories for me - but this year 28 Oct will be 'interesting' not only your Alive date, but it is the scheduled Memorial at Ft. Lewis for COL John "Skip" Sadler, who passed on 6 Oct at age 89, one of the fathers of Special Operations. Celebrations of life will be in order that day, for you and him.
Keep on Keeping on my Brother... kick ass and take names.
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Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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10-13-2013, 14:34
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Crip:
You done good, hermano.
Way to fight the good fight.
TR
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10-13-2013, 15:20
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James,
Your combination of courage and class is truly an inspiration. It's great to see you are progressing so well.
Mike
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10-13-2013, 15:26
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It' been said here before but it bears repeating, YOU are an inspiration to all. Our country needs men like you, and I am thankful and grateful that men like you exist.
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10-13-2013, 17:41
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Consigliere
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I am thinking about changing my name to Speechless Lawyer. That was awesome bro.
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10-13-2013, 17:48
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RIP Quiet Professional
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Class act.
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10-13-2013, 17:49
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That's what being SF is all about, never quit.
Well done brother, well done.
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10-13-2013, 17:55
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RIP Quiet Professional
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Be tough now, while you're young, because as you age, the toughness fades away.
I had on flipflops and got hit on a pinky toe last week by a scorpion, and my next door neighbor said that when I yelled, it sounded like a niney-year old woman screaming at the top of her lungs while blowing a foghorn. 
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10-13-2013, 18:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dusty
Be tough now, while you're young, because as you age, the toughness fades away.
I had on flipflops and got hit on a pinky toe last week by a scorpion, and my next door neighbor said that when I yelled, it sounded like a niney-year old woman screaming at the top of her lungs while blowing a foghorn. |
Sissy....
I got stung about 5 years ago by a bark scorpion while dead asleep, made no sound but captured the creature and placed it in the microwave. (Never sting the Team Sergeant while he's sleeping....)
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