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I dont care what your view of our militray policy is this guy is what a hero is.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marine-receiving-medal-honor-diving-130000393.html
"I wasn’t gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.”
Those thoughts raced through Marine Corporal Kyle Carpenter's head in the moments after he dove on top of a Taliban grenade, taking the brunt of the blast and saving the life of his best friend.
Covered in blood, Carpenter's vision was fading. Shrapnel had torn into his face and taken his right eye. With his eardrums ruptured, he couldn't hear anything except loud ringing.
"I thought about my family and how devastated they would be that I was killed in Afghanistan and never made it home," Carpenter, 24, told me of the 2010 incident in Marjah, in southwestern Afghanistan. "My last thought [was to] make peace with God, because I knew from how I felt and how much blood that I could feel I was losing — I knew that I was not gonna wake up."
But he did wake up six weeks later, in a hospital bed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. Now, almost four years after the incident, the retired Corporal will receive the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor, on Thursday in a ceremony at the White House.
Our 'alarm clock' was AK-47 fire
On Nov. 19, 2010, Carpenter and his squad moved south by foot to a small village, accompanied by engineers, an interpreter, and Afghan National Army troops. Their mission: build a new patrol base to wrestle control of the area from the Taliban.
It wouldn't be easy. Any time they pushed south, he told me, "we would take enemy fire. It was pretty much guaranteed enemy contact. It was definitely a rough deployment up to that point."
That "contact" came one day later, when their small patrol base came under blistering attack from small arms, sniper fire, rockets, and grenades. Two Marines were injured and evacuated. "The rest of the day it was sporadic but still constant enemy [AK-47] fire on our post that was on top of the roof."
da rest ---> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marine-receiving-medal-honor-diving-130000393.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marine-receiving-medal-honor-diving-130000393.html
"I wasn’t gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.”
Those thoughts raced through Marine Corporal Kyle Carpenter's head in the moments after he dove on top of a Taliban grenade, taking the brunt of the blast and saving the life of his best friend.
Covered in blood, Carpenter's vision was fading. Shrapnel had torn into his face and taken his right eye. With his eardrums ruptured, he couldn't hear anything except loud ringing.
"I thought about my family and how devastated they would be that I was killed in Afghanistan and never made it home," Carpenter, 24, told me of the 2010 incident in Marjah, in southwestern Afghanistan. "My last thought [was to] make peace with God, because I knew from how I felt and how much blood that I could feel I was losing — I knew that I was not gonna wake up."
But he did wake up six weeks later, in a hospital bed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. Now, almost four years after the incident, the retired Corporal will receive the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor, on Thursday in a ceremony at the White House.
Our 'alarm clock' was AK-47 fire
On Nov. 19, 2010, Carpenter and his squad moved south by foot to a small village, accompanied by engineers, an interpreter, and Afghan National Army troops. Their mission: build a new patrol base to wrestle control of the area from the Taliban.
It wouldn't be easy. Any time they pushed south, he told me, "we would take enemy fire. It was pretty much guaranteed enemy contact. It was definitely a rough deployment up to that point."
That "contact" came one day later, when their small patrol base came under blistering attack from small arms, sniper fire, rockets, and grenades. Two Marines were injured and evacuated. "The rest of the day it was sporadic but still constant enemy [AK-47] fire on our post that was on top of the roof."
da rest ---> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marine-receiving-medal-honor-diving-130000393.html
