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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Thumbs up Dammmmmmm

    GOD'S Nicname Is LUCKY


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    Thumbs up

    that is one Lucky S.O.B.


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    He Had A Good Corpsman
    Semper Fi And God Bless You Sgt

    Stephen Doc Hansen Hm3 Fmf


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    Quote Originally Posted by doc h fmf View Post
    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...

    Maybe four, since it was a head shot.

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


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    LOL thats a good one hillbillyjar

    SEMPER FI MY BROTHER

    STEPHEN DOC HANSEN HM3 FMF


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