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Anja Niedringhaus / AP
Left: Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, left, holds onto the gunshot wound in his belly and gestures toward his troops as he runs to a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11. The Army's 'Dust Off' crew needed two attempts to get him out, as they were fired upon and took five rounds of bullets into the tail of their aircraft. Right: Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, shouts out as he is rescued.
Anja Niedringhaus / AP
A large bullet hole is seen on the tail of a Black Hawk helicopter after the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment came under fire while rescuing injured Marine Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino after he was shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11.
Anja Niedringhaus / AP
Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, gives the thumbs-up to U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Joe Campbell after arriving at a field hospital at camp Edi on a medevac helicopter.
It takes special people to maintain a cool head in these circumstances. To learn more about the Dustoff unit, check out this piece that NPR did a ways back or take a peek at the Dustoff Association's site.
Update: Photographer Anja Niedringhaus wrote a first-person account of the rescue of Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino. Read her dispatch: Lucky charms and bullet holes in Afghan helicopter.
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Sara , quit signing on to this site. Your conversation is too liberal and I'll bet your age matches your IQ. Without this military to protect us, you would be speaking German or Japanese right now, that is if due to a lack of military to protect your parents ASS you were born at all.
Thanks is not enough for our troops, but I and most of our country appreciate you.
By the way try blogging like this in Afganistan.
If indeed you served Sara, you are what we call a traitor for this kind of crap you are spewing. Better to just keep it to yourself and your Liberal web site trolls.
ImoenOfTelengard and Sara enjoy freedoms that others provide, you have only the right to run your mouth because of those who serve, maybe you guys should move somwhere else.
YES if you dont like how this country operates get the EFF out ;)
Dear Sara,
The fact that we don't guard borders keeps our country safe! Im sorry that your opinion of the people who are willing to do the job your refuse to do is a negative one. Just remember this If we didnt goto other countrys to fight wars or enter into combat then you wouldn't be able to make comments like you do.
No not guarding our borders creates more problems like illegitimate people coming in and using our money elsewhere, not putting it back into our economy, but instead they send it "back home" wherever that may be, causing us to have to print more and inflation to go up. Not to mention the on-going issue with the drug cartels. FYI
Sara did her time in the military, offered her life for the American way, and is exercising her right to disagree with what's going on. How many people are getting shot in America today? How many, unlike this brave soldier, did not have the means to protect themselves? And how many of the rest of you gave that a seconds worth of thought before having it brought to your attention? I feel for the man that got shot serving his country. But I would also help protect sara against all of you. Because most of you really don't care about those who are actually dying within miles of where you are sitting right now.
Well I will tell you one thing, we cant do anything about it, THE PRESIDENT controls where the marines fight. CONGRESS controls where the army fights NOT US! so how can you speak about what other people care about? This article is on military, not drug cartels, or psychos who kill innocent people. So stick to the subject. Thanks.
You no nothing about Marines. The only way a individual would know about Marines is to be one. With your illogical views about this post as well as others you have made in the past, you wouldn't get past the application, to be a Marine.
"Don't Bull___, the Bull___ter." It's not wise.
Sara you are and ignorant person, for the following reasons:
1-Politics and war do not go hand in hand
2- If it weren't for these men, people may not have any other choice then to go to war
3-They do not choose their battles and typically don't agree with all of it
4- Our work is not done there, it is only fair to teach the Afghanies how to defend themselves before we just ditch them. They have be tortured by terrorist for YEARS. Wouldn't you want someone to help us if we were in that situation?
5- Well 5, you really need to do your research and use common sense before you start commenting on issues you know nothing about, why don't you learn THE FACTS before you start giving your "opinions" because with out the facts you cannot properly state an opinion.
Peace out Troll (::
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Well said Brooke I fought back to put it so nicely.Then again theres nothing nice about me when you mess with my family. LOL! Troll..... She probably looks like one too
Yeah were all family THANK GOD for our husbands<3
My husband was the medic on that mission, Sgt Joe Campbell. I am very proud of him, the crew and everyone who goes outside the wire every day, multiple times a day, to provide the "Wings of Mercy" and help save the lives of not only the US servicemembers, but also the NATO troops, ANA and local nationals... even the enemy. They are a brave group and my husband is very humble.
In a letter to me earlier this year he wrote, "I am no hero, but I ride with them on my helicopter everyday."