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Gentlemen:
I was channel surfing and landed on a documentary type show on ABC called "Profiles". The newsfolk followed our troops around Afganistan to see their day to day routine. That in itself was interesting, but then they went to a forward medical treatment facility (Think that's what they called it, anyhoo
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They had three casualties coming in at 2 AM. One was an Afgan good guy with a bullet through his right leg, One was Dead On Arrival, but the third really caught my attention. He was an infantryman in the 101st Airborne from New York. He had severe lacerations to the base of his left fingers; palm side. The Doc asked what did this and he responded, " A Khukuri Knife" I about fell off the couch.
His fingers where to the bone and he was patched up and shipped home for more delicate procedures to restore the hand. I immediately thought about the safety thread and wondered out loud if he had his hand on the bottom of the sheath while removing a Khuk, and it cut through and got his hand. The cut was in the right place for it.
I know Sarge handed out instructions and safety info with the khuks he distributed. I wonder if this fellow could have been a recipient from his first trip and didn't bother to read the instructions. It's a small world, if that were the case!
Did anyone else see this program?
-Craig
I was channel surfing and landed on a documentary type show on ABC called "Profiles". The newsfolk followed our troops around Afganistan to see their day to day routine. That in itself was interesting, but then they went to a forward medical treatment facility (Think that's what they called it, anyhoo

They had three casualties coming in at 2 AM. One was an Afgan good guy with a bullet through his right leg, One was Dead On Arrival, but the third really caught my attention. He was an infantryman in the 101st Airborne from New York. He had severe lacerations to the base of his left fingers; palm side. The Doc asked what did this and he responded, " A Khukuri Knife" I about fell off the couch.
His fingers where to the bone and he was patched up and shipped home for more delicate procedures to restore the hand. I immediately thought about the safety thread and wondered out loud if he had his hand on the bottom of the sheath while removing a Khuk, and it cut through and got his hand. The cut was in the right place for it.
I know Sarge handed out instructions and safety info with the khuks he distributed. I wonder if this fellow could have been a recipient from his first trip and didn't bother to read the instructions. It's a small world, if that were the case!
Did anyone else see this program?
-Craig