Troops wounded in copter attack arrive in Germany for Treatment

[lebkuchen]

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18473

About 18 of the 30 wounded aboard were believed to be casualties of
Sunday's strike that also killed 16 soldiers when their Chinook helicopter was
shot down outside Fallujah, said Maj. Mike Young of the U.S. 86th Airlift
Wing based in Ramstein.

<snip>

Of the nearly 30 soldiers who arrived aboard the C-17 transport in a predawn
rain, 14 were taken to a waiting ambulance bus on stretchers while the others
walked.

[Hieronymus]

1. I shudder

to think what the extent of the injuries are. Missing limbs and blindness being just a few.:kick:

[lebkuchen]

4. Burn victims as well

since the helicopter had exploded. I'm wondering how they got out alive.

[RamboLiberal]

8. One news account from an Iraqi witness

Said one soldier was crawling using his hands - his legs were on fire. I imagine many of these survivors have terrible burn injuries plus trauma injuries caused by the crash.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. "14 were taken to a waiting ambulance bus on stretchers " -

. . NOT a good sign

And I've noticed this wee spin on they way they state things (duh)

. . "The death toll was the highest for U.S. troops since March 23 — the first week of the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein — and the attack represented a major escalation in the campaign to drive the U.S.-led coalition out of the country."

"The death toll was the highest for U.S. troops since March 23 " makes it sound as if the March 23 (Lynch Ambush) thing was HIGHER - -

in fact the Ambush cost them 11 young lives

the copter event cost them 16 more young Americans, and counting, so the 'copter thing is THE highest single loss of young Americans.

So this is the WORST SINGLE EVENT since the Amerikkans set foot on Iraqi soil

That's the way I see it anyways - -

Just My Dumm Canuk Math ?? :shrug:

[LizW]

3. Worst Single Event

You're right. That's exactly what I thought when I heard about it. I haven't watched any news, only read about it here. Is the media really failing to call it what it is?

Have they even bothered to tell where the soldiers are from? Given any names?

I wonder if we're to the point where, like during Vietnam, the dead are just depicted as faceless, nameless numbers. It makes my blood boil. These are someone's children!

[Rose Siding]

7. One of them was on the way to his mom's funeral

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03307/236214.stm

He had a wife and kids.

[Noordam]

5. most Fox News watchers can not

DO THE MATH.

[spinbaby]

6. CNN this morning

They had on a woman answering questions about these soldiers. She said 16 had arrived in Germany and 11 of these were in the ICU.

[lebkuchen]

9. Was that the one where McCaffery said it was all worth it

as long as we got the changeover in Iraq?