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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/)
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/)