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04-05-11, 11:38 AM #1
Sgt. Survives Sniper Round To The Head
"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/
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04-05-11, 12:04 PM #2
Can you say "hardhead jarhead" or one lucky Marine. Hope they went after the sniper and put one in his arz.
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04-05-11, 02:31 PM #3
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
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04-06-11, 09:58 AM #4
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.
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04-06-11, 12:01 PM #5
Dammmmmmm
GOD'S Nicname Is LUCKY
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04-06-11, 12:57 PM #6
that is one Lucky S.O.B.
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04-07-11, 06:42 AM #7
He Had A Good Corpsman
Semper Fi And God Bless You Sgt
Stephen Doc Hansen Hm3 Fmf
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04-07-11, 07:00 AM #8
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04-10-11, 06:47 AM #9
LOL thats a good one hillbillyjar
SEMPER FI MY BROTHER
STEPHEN DOC HANSEN HM3 FMF
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