Delta Force Operator Recounts One of the Most Horrific Scenes of War 

A big thank you to you my surgeon friend I have been in a major trauma center when I rode the third guy as a ride alone. We young FF got to ride with the medical rig. I remember lots of standing around just in "A" of trauma team in ER room. The one time I got ready Light headed was the doctor asking me to just hold the stretcher still, they had not transferred to the ER bed. All the BLOOD like that say Got me very dissy.

Doing my gen surg residency right now; attending I work with was a trauma surgeon on a forward surgical team in the army. Talk about carnage, the limited resources available with injuries some soldiers present with is truly humbling.

Well said

Spinal surgeon…what’s that pay a man yearly?

My father's best friend was a trauma surgeon for many years. We're in a big city, but not a particularly rich country, so there was always horrible stuff going on, and not enough resources to do everything right. He developed something of a mental syndrome over time, where he was obviously super burned out, but felt the need to keep going, because various explanations which boiled down to "I'm doing very important work, I can't stop". Thankfully he did stop... and learned to do hair transplants. Some of his colleagues weren't so lucky. The alcoholism and recreational thrill seeking in doctors is at a horrible level, and their life expectancy shows it. I hope my dad's friend keeps doing the hair - it's probably boring, but he's off the booze, and he sold the overpowered Mazda convertible.

There are some badass units of every major army, but Sempre Fi scares nightmares out of them! Do or die! Lt. Leland Miller USMC, Viet Nam 1967

​@@leisurelee1897thank you for your service! Vietnam vets never got the recognition they deserved

Agreed

Combat medic is the hardest job in the military imo

This one of the main characteristics of the Army's Tier 1 operators that I admire so much is how sincere and humble they are. We are fortunate that most of them are back and retired. Pick one, anyone of them you watch are similar in this. Total professionals, yet still human.

I worked security at a trauma hospital. When the life flight came in and landed on the roof, it would remind me of Blackhawk helos landing at EMEDS in Iraq…EMEDS is the Air Force equivalent of an Army MASH unit.

My hat is off to those guys and gals that were in the initial push and subsequent months after. I showed up into country in 07 and 2010. It was Iraq, but a different place than those early days.

Legend

@@emmanuellimon5158 what are you ranting about sweetheart?

@@Steamerbeenthat other guy was agreeing with you. You must’ve been dropped on your head as a baby to formulate a response like that 😂

Right! Our barracks were right next to the EMEDS tents and landing pad. That helipad was always receiving Blackhawk traffic. To this day, I still look up when I hear life flight helicopters. I worked at a trauma hospital for a little bit after.

while on the other side of the planet me stupid, had years of partys and f--- arounds behind me. at least 04 my girlfriend became pregnant and my boy was born 05 so made me grow up a bit. in many ways i tick like tom but thank god without the pictures in his brain

I am not an operator. I did go to Iraq twice. I was fortunate though. I rarely had to leave our Forward Operating Base. We were called Fobits. 07 was a rough year for sure though. A few days into our tour a mortar killed a soldier in his bunk and wounded a few more. 07 was the deadliest year of the Iraq War. It was somewhat quiet in 2010. I graduated in 2005.

I saw a short clip from this interview. Blew me away because he talks about getting sober from alcohol. I am a little over ninety days into my first time sober since coming back from Iraq in 08. He said quitting drinking was the hardest thing he has ever gone through.

The smell of shit mixed with the blood is what I remember the most.

I still can smell the blood when a friend tot his leg cut off by a train. That was probably 25 years ago. Also, don't try to jump on moving trains. Trying to learn to skate with a prosthetic looked like a pain in the ass.

Lol i bet he begrudges going skating with you!​@davidritchie9344

I also worked in a huge slaughter house when I was 18 years old and the smell of the blood, guts and every part of an animal seeps into your pores. The smell was so "Different" that I would take a shower immediately after I was done at work in the work locker room to keep the smell from permeating throughout the interior of my truck and then I would shower again as soon as I got home from work With this double shower taking place in about a 45 to 55 minute time span my wife still complained about the smell and my friends said that they could smell the death and guts that had soaked into my pores but no matter what soap and scrubbing apparatus, hell even the "Wives Tales" and the multitude of hillbilly remedies I tried that smell was LOCKED IN I worked at the slaughterhouse for about a year and a half, got into a kerfuffle with a new foreman that lost his job at Goodyear Tire where they make the tires so this new foreman knew nothing about meat except how to eat it so the new foreman was ALWAYS at odds with me and a few other guys I ended up dragging up on that job and about 2 months after I quit I walked in to talk to a Marine recruiter and 2 months after that I was on my way to bootcamp. The bad part about me talking to the recruiters of all of the branches that makeup the military was that I didn't mention it to my wife or my young daughter (Yeh the wife was mad that I didn't ask, or mention my lan to our 7 month old daughter sooooooooo I hit the military circuit on my own and my wife divorced me and told me about it when I was buried half way up to my ass in bad shit in Beirut but the smells were pretty much the same at either place

You're welcome. Hope you enjoyed the short clip!

Same.

This helps us more than you know! Thank you!!

Me too bud

He went through a substantial change in his life too. I understand what he went through when he talks about getting sober off of alcohol. Out of all the things that he has done and been through, alcohol was the most difficult. I hear him. I’m a little over ninety in.

You can still get involved with this kind of treatment if you want to. Will explain my personal things I do in 2024. I am an Advisor for FF Cadets. We have two converted Aid rigs as Rehab rigs. When toned out to big 2 alarm fires, large EMS events we are there working with MSO & Paramedic. We record vitals for FF or the other mass injury people. We cool FF down in the back of Rehab rigs and Medic rigs. We have even had Cadets or Advisor treat patients as the MSO goes through all the injuries, to prioritize the treatment and transport. We are taking care of the FF one on one. Rehydrating them, giving them Gatorade or water, having them eat energy bars ( Paydays) are the FF favorite. And a Retired Paramedic who is also the chaplain. He told me about what's in Payday bars, which is very good for bringing back your body energy. Anyway that's my story 😊 you can still get involved with Groups that get in the middle of this crazy mass treatment. Check out in your area, is there a REHAB unit that has volunteered to help man the unit. What we are trying to incorporate is a Light Duty FF drive the rig with 1 or 2 Cadets who by the way get school credits for doing ride alongs, with not only the Rehab but the different engine companies

FHF Corpsman are no joke , respect to your pops man , im a US Army fanboy but theres something about US Navy Corpsman that i prefer over 18D , SARCs that do the full course SOIDC , to me are the most trained out of the them all , not taking away from 18D but They know dive medicine which is a bonus over the armies counterpart

I'm guessing selection for awards

I'm guessing God's idea of brave does not include humans slaughtering each other..

@@Marcus-vk5nx that’s been happening since the beginning of time you are smart enough to know why that is ???

@markkus1134 since the beginning of time..? I'm reasonably sure you have not one speck of an idea of a clue what was going on at the" beginning " of time..God knows though...and only him..

Hood is also 1st Cav as well too, right? I passed through there when we did some pre-deployment training. They had a decent urban site for jacked up paintball training.

you still think you should have gone there at all?

@@astralreisenderWe went in their on lies. My condolences to the families of the service members who died without doing anything to make America safer.

@@CorePathway exactly, shouldend been there, we supported you based on lies, politic sucks, have a nice one!

@@astralreisenderIt is what it is. Hindsight is 20/20. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I didnt make the effort after 9/11.