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January 05, 2005

MacGyver, USMC

It starts out as a typical military SNAFU story: Marine in Iraq gets a care packate intended for a female Marine, complete with, er, feminine products.

And it's there that the story gets interesting.

As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons, and My son said everyone was teasing him about "not forgetting his feminine hygiene products". My son said things were going well, and then the convoy was ambushed. He said a Marine in the convoy was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, "Hey use Marine X’s tampons". My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told me, "Mom did you know that tampons expand?" ) "Well, yeah!". They successfully slowed the bleeding and got the guy medical attention. When they went to check on him later the surgeon told them, "You guys saved his life". If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death. My son said, "Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marines life." At this point I asked him, "Well what did you do with the rest of the tampons?" He said, "Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit".
Add your own punch line. Posted by Mitch at January 5, 2005 05:48 AM | TrackBack
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When I was a Girl Scout leader, we always had at least one "sanitary napkin" in the first aid kit. We knew that it was the best thing to have to stop serious bleeding. And in the old days they had strings at each end, and that was useful for tieing the thing around an arm or leg. If the would was there. Anyway, just proves, there's nothing really new under the sun.

Posted by: Silver at January 6, 2005 07:42 AM
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