March 06, 2011
While we spoiled U.S. citizens sit around the house, at work or at play, always bitchin’ about something or the other, our super brave soldiers are at war in the middle east, doing and seeing things that most of us cannot even imagine. One of these soldiers is U.S. Army Specialist Channing Moss who while on mounted patrol in 2006 with his unit in Afghanistan, they were ambushed by the enemy. During the fire fight, the enemy fired a Rocket Propelled Grenade toward their vehicle and although the projectile hit it’s target, it didn’t explode, flying through the windshield and striking Specialist Moss in the left pelvis area, through his stomach and coming to rest impaled on his right thigh. Please click on the following militarytimes.com link to read the rest of this amazing story about how a team of our heroic combat troops saved this brave soldiers life.