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Wrench3516
04-05-11, 11:38 AM
:flag: "OooRah! SEMPER-FI!"
Sgt. survives sniper round to the head

By Brian Shane - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Apr 5, 2011 5:08:53 EDT

Manning the top of a compound south of Sangin, Afghanistan, Sgt. Paul Boothroyd III took a sniper round to the head. He landed face down onto the muddy roof with a thud.

Fifteen minutes later, Boothroyd was bandaged, smiling, smoking a cigarette and giving the “thumbs up” as he waited for the medevac helicopter, to which he walked under his own power.

It’s a “you-gotta-be-kidding-me” story that earned Boothroyd, a signals intelligence operator with 2nd Radio Battalion, a new call sign from his team members: Headshot.

“It was a one-in-a-million shot that the sniper was even able to hit me,” he said in an interview with Marine Corps Times, “and a one-in-a-million chance that the bullet didn’t destroy my brain. It wasn’t my time.”
(complete article) http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/04/marine-headshot-sniper-survive-0405 11w/ (http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/04/marine-headshot-sniper-survive-040511w/)

hbharrison
04-05-11, 12:04 PM
Can you say "hardhead jarhead" or one lucky Marine. Hope they went after the sniper and put one in his arz.

montana
04-05-11, 02:31 PM
had a radio man with us that had a bullet enter and exit his helmet without scraching him.....he also on another op had his radio stop a bullet that had his name on it...luckyest guy ive ever known

TrevelyanInc
04-06-11, 09:58 AM
Don't visit Leatherneck much anymore, but just had to comment on this one. We were students together at DLI and Goodfellow AFB. A good Marine, and a very, very lucky one.

FistFu68
04-06-11, 12:01 PM
:evilgrin:GOD'S Nicname Is LUCKY :thumbup: :iwo:

futurerecruit1
04-06-11, 12:57 PM
that is one Lucky S.O.B.:)

doc h fmf
04-07-11, 06:42 AM
He Had A Good Corpsman
Semper Fi And God Bless You Sgt

Stephen Doc Hansen Hm3 Fmf

hillbillyjar
04-07-11, 07:00 AM
He Had A Good Corpsman
Semper Fi And God Bless You Sgt

Stephen Doc Hansen Hm3 Fmf
Yep, Doc musta stuffed a tampon in the bloody hole, and given him three motrins...:angel:

Maybe four, since it was a head shot.:scared:

I'd say God bless ya Sarge, but it seems he already did.

doc h fmf
04-10-11, 06:47 AM
LOL thats a good one hillbillyjar

SEMPER FI MY BROTHER

STEPHEN DOC HANSEN HM3 FMF