Sgt. Mario Ratto, Spc. Sandy Rushing and Pfc. Jonathan Fish saving the world
Bobo sends us a link to the story of three servicemen, Sergeant Mario Ratto, Specialist Sandy Rushing and Private First Class Jonathan Fish, who happened on a scene during a break in an exercise between US and Japan Ground Self Defense Force.
“We ran over there and saw an elderly Japanese man lying face down on the road,” said Rushing. “There was blood on the ground and he was just lying there face down. It looked like he was dead. He was not moving at all – I thought the guy was dead.”
“Private Fish was right behind me and I had him check for any additional injuries before we turned him over,” said Rushing. “We kind of tag teamed it and log rolled him over onto his back while keeping his C-spine stable.”
“There was so much blood on his face and broken teeth in his mouth,” said Fish who had only recently completed Advanced Individual Training.
“We then saw that his airway was obstructed – he had fallen on his face and broken some teeth and had quite a bit of blood everywhere,” said Rushing. “We repositioned his airway and cleared his airway pulling broken teeth out of his mouth.”
That’s when the elderly man started regaining consciousness.
Read the rest at the link.
Category: Real Soldiers
Good job, Soldiers. If I was lying facedown in a pool of my own blood, I’d want Army medics to come to my rescue, too.
Now, PFC Fish. Come over here, son. I need to talk to you about those BCG’s and how this tour in Japan is gonna go if you keep on wearing them 24/7. (smile)
yeah. looking at the picture you didn’t have to read the nametags to know which one is Fish. BUT – he performed like a stud, with the other guys.
Very cool!
Considering that this is good news about American troops doing good for someone they stumbled across, who do you think will ignore it more, our media or the japs?
Props
Good job, guys.
Although the repeated references to blood everywhere has me wondering – have you made many live injury runs, or just the moulage that they give you in training? Or are we getting this through the reporter Sgt. 1st Class Corey Beal’s filter and (s)he is not accustomed to the fact that traumatic injury frequently results in the red stuff leaking out?
Journalism 101:
If it bleeds, it leads!
Why would they turn down perfectly good gore in a story?
Good job, guys.
HOOAH!!