Mar 27th, 2003, 09:54 PM
Hey Max, chew out this Rambo military man, big boy!
edit: I guess since he was blown from his vehicle, capture iraq's by himself and was Rambo like, he should be scolded for not taking out his battle book and finding out the right way to shoot someone and to wear his uniform, huh? The next time your kid metions men to you, show him this article and find this guys picture. So he wont get confused when people call you one.
By Robert J. McCartney
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, March 28, 2003; 8:33 AM
LANDSTUHL, Germany, March 27 -- A U.S. Army sergeant today described how he captured four Iraqi soldiers by himself near Nasiriyah Saturday after a rocket-propelled grenade blew him out of his Humvee and left him with a serious shrapnel wound in his left arm.
The prisoners were concealing Iraqi military uniforms under civilian robes, he said.
Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane and two other injured servicemen spoke to a news conference at a U.S. Army hospital here, where they are being treated before returning to the United States. He said his training had prepared him well to be in combat, but he had no desire to return to battle after being wounded.
"Getting shot at wasn't really that bad. It was the getting shot part that sucked," he said.
Villafane and his gunner, Sgt. Charles Horgan, were in a Humvee on a bridge south of Nasiriyah when the attack took place. They saw some men dressed in civilian clothes who were acting nervous, and running away from them. Moments later, the Humvee was struck by the RPG round.
"It blew me out of the truck. I was a little dazed," Villafane, 31, of Brentwood, Long Island, N.Y. said. Shortly thereafter, a wire-guided rocket whizzed by, hitting a truck next to him.
"It was pretty close. I got to see the wire as it went by," he said.
Though aware his arm was injured, he got up and went down under the bridge where he "got the jump" on an enemy soldier.
"He was looking one way, and I happened to be looking directly at him," Villafane said. He dropped his AK-47, and then three more appeared. They surrendered, too, when "they saw I already had one guy at gunpoint," Villafane said.
"The guys I caught, it was four guys against me. They dropped their guns right away. You could see they were terrified," he said.
Villafane, whose left arm was swathed in a large bandage, suffered nerve damage and will probably need skin grafts.
Villafane went back up to the bridge, where Horgan helped him put on an initial bandage even though Horgan's foot had been badly wounded. Horgan, 21, of Helena, Mont., saw the RPG round just as it was coming in. At first, he said, "I thought I was going to die," but then he realized the round was aimed low and he was likely to suffer foot injuries.
The blast hurled him up on top of the vehicle. "I looked down, and realized I still had my legs. I was pretty relieved about that," Horgan said.
The third injured serviceman was Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Menard, 21, of Houston. He suffered a bullet wound while guarding a bridge in Nasiriyah on Monday.
© 2003 The Washington Post Company
ending edit: Yep, there is the army I thought this country should have at work! Perfect example of how my view is more correct than the view of a netgeek writing for a two-bit site limp-wristed queef's view.
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Then all he will have is an old worn album with photos of him deep throating Corporals, naughty skinny dipping with a Commander, having orgies with many Privates, and getting baloney thrown on his ass from a Major.
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