We don't hear that much about the wounded from Afghanistan. I just saw this & thought I ought to share. He's only 19. BBC News - Triple amputation puts teenage lovers to the test Triple amputation puts teenage lovers to the test Craig Wood and Vicky Swales got engaged three weeks before he was injured Three weeks after 19-year-old rifleman Craig Wood proposed to his 17-year-old girlfriend Vicky Swales, he was blown up by a wire-detonated roadside bomb on his first patrol back in Afghanistan. On BBC3 later today. BBC - BBC Three Programmes - My Boyfriend the War Hero
The wounded are often the forgotten statistic of war - the scars both mental and physical take a long time to overcome
This thread made me think if I could remember any wounded from Iraq and the one that immediatly sprang to mind was when I went to Re-sup one of my Dets attached to the Black Watch Battle Group in Al-Zubayer before Basrah had fallen. The night before my arrival one of the BW Platoons was preparing to go out in their Warrior AFV's. Every AFV has to have a man infront of it when manoeuvring in a base to guide them around unitl they leave the relative safety of the base. One of the BW Sgts was bringing a Warrior upto the main gate and for some reason the Driver hit the anchors causing the Commander to jolt forward onto the chain gun putting a burst of 7.62mm though the Sgt's legs. It was said if there wasn't a RAP at their location he would have bled to death and sadly he ended up having both legs amputated. Some years later I saw him on the TV along with some other ex-army amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan working with the MOD helping prepare soldiers on Op-Tag (Pre-Deployment Training) by acting as casualties with serious wounds.
