Do or die: Saving a soldier pierced by an RPG

Here is an amazing story of bravery, duty, dedication and just plain guts. This highlights why the American military is the best in the world. With this sort of young people, there is no nation or entity that can defeat us in battle. Read the whole article and be sure to view the video.
FROM AIRFORCETIMES.COM:
Do or die: Saving a soldier pierced by an RPG
For medics and a helicopter crew, there was only one choice By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Sep 25, 2007 10:29:37 EDT
Spc. Channing Moss should be dead by all accounts. And those who saved his life did so knowing they might have died with him.
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March 16, 2006. Southeastern Afghanistan. A fierce ambush and bloody firefight. It was over in a flash and Moss was left on the verge of death.
He was impaled through the abdomen with a rocket-propelled grenade, and an aluminum rod with one tail fin protruded from the left side of his torso.
His fellow soldiers worried: Could he blow up and take them with him? For all anyone knew, the answer was yes.
Still, over the course of the next couple of hours, his buddies, a helicopter crew and a medical team would risk their own lives to save his.
“Moss is an African-American and he’s gone to white. He’s in total shock from the loss of blood. But at the time, I really didn’t think about it. I knew [the RPG] was there but I thought, if we didn’t do it, if we didn’t get him out of there, he was going to die,” said flight medic Sgt. John Collier, 29, then a specialist.
“It was an extremely unusual set of events. He should have died three times that day,” said Maj. John Oh, 759th Forward Surgical Team general surgeon.
The 36-year-old’s surgical skill and command of his own nerves would be put to the ultimate test as, wearing helmet and body armor, he would operate to extract the ordnance from Moss’s booby-trapped body. One wrong move risked the lives of the patient, his own and those of the other members of the medical team.
He said the payoff was worth the gamble.
“For a soldier to be struck by an RPG and be flown and have surgery and survive? it’s unheard of,” said Oh. “It was a pretty remarkable experience.”
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