How this Soldier saved the life of a Marine with a live grenade stuck in his leg
By Andy Wolf| January 6th, 2017|Military News, Popular|0 Comments
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Left photo: Col. Jeffrey Paulson (right) flying a Blackhawk helicopter while deployed to Afghanistan with a Minnesota Medical Evacuation unit in 2011-'12. Right photo: James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center Nurse Lt. Cmdr. James Gennari (right) provides medical support while Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Army Staff Sgt. Benjamin Summerfield (left) removes an unexploded rocket propelled grenade from the leg of Marine Cpl. Winder Perez.
A former Army National Guardsman who flew Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan will never forget the time they had a close encounter with an RPG.
While helicopter crews over combat zones often come in contact with Rocket Propelled Grenades, it isn’t often that one makes it into the cabin of the aircraft and crews live to tell about. But live they did, and saved a life in the process.
In the opening days of 2012, then-New Mexico Army National Guard pilot CW2 Jeffrey Paulson -who retired as a Colonel- was flying what seemed to be just one of many MEDEVAC missions he flew in his career. Having arrived in Afghanistan in the summer of the previous year, he had been flying out of the Northern Helmand province’s FOB Edinburgh in support of US Marine units.
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