Bolldere

10 americans, over 100 afghans.

In my experience, trauma is trauma. Everyone has bad things that happen to them, the worst for you, and the worst for me, are different events but the same emotions. Keep in mind not everything is bad, I have some very fond memories of the time.

I think for me, Nov 22, 2010, my platoon was on a patrol in a place called Nalgham, one of our ANA (afghan national army) soldiers stepped on a mine, and suffered a double amputation above the knee, while evaccing him out by litter, the litter team was struck by an IED (estimated at several hundred pounds). We had 8 injured, 2 died. I was the only medic who was not injured severely, my supervisor was struck by shrapnel, and wounded, but he managed to get up and help me with the wounded. That for me ranks very high, even though I have seen worse, these were my best friends, my brothers.

yes! The britts are a lot of fun, and totally wreckless and crazy. They had these tanks, im not sure what they are called, but they would drive through IED's, open the hatch, curse, spit, get back in, and run over some walls or more IED's, fun guys.

the downtime, war is sitting around for hours waiting for something to happen, then 12 seconds of madness.