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| Surgeons don body armor to remove explosives from soldier's head |
| 2010-04-09 |
| US army surgeons donned body armor to remove a high-explosive bullet from a soldier's head during a tense five-hour operation. Non-essential staff at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan were evacuated during the surgery to remove the Taliban bullet, which contained two ounces of high explosives powerful enough to kill the entire surgical team. Medics succeeded in delicately extracting it and their unnamed patient - a member of the Afghan National Army, who was injured in a bomb blast - was recovering tonight, The Sun reports. Sergeant William Carter, a member of the surgical team who performed under lockdown at the military hospital, said, "It was a real concentrated effort on everyone's behalf to ensure that we were all safe, and the patient was safe as well." In half a century, US medical teams tackled fewer than 50 cases involving the removal of deadly explosives from patients. "This type of situation is remarkable," Carter said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 I remember seeing a x-ray of an ARVN soldier with a 82mm mortar rounds inside his chest cavity. Around 1970 or so. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2010-04-09 21:01 |
| #4 It looked like a 14.5mm High Explosive Incendiary bullet, so the entire bullet weighs 2oz. It is unlikely to kill the surgical team, but it will end a surgeon's career. No need to mention the headache an exploding bullet will give the patient. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-09 19:56 |
| #3 So what explosive compound, two ounces, in a bullet, can kill an entire surgical team? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-04-09 18:40 |
| #2 In this case, I am glad to hear the surgery wasn't a blast. Good job guys. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-09 11:13 |
| #1 Geez, this ammo sounds worse then even the dreaded Depleted Uranium. I'm sure the Taliban can expect a strongly worded letter from Human Rights Watch deploring it's use in no uncertain terms... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-09 11:06 |