volfrahm Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Not sure how salon.com was able to get helmet-cam footage of a dying soldier, but here it is: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/14/friendlyfirevideo/ The leg was blurred on the family request by the way. On the afternoon of Dec. 4, 2006, Pfc. Albert Nelson was wounded and Pfc. Roger Suarez-Gonzalez was killed during an exchange of fire in "building #2" close to the south bank of the Euphrates River in Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq. This video, which was recorded from the point of view of the men in building #2 that day, appears to show an American tank firing on them, followed by an attempt to assign official blame for the death of Suarez and the injuries to Nelson to Iraqi insurgents firing mortars. Nelson later died of his wounds Can anyone comment on how it would be different if a civilian paramedic responded to, say, a car crash where there was victim with a severed limb? I'm not suggesting anything about the nature of the care in the video above; I'm just curious as to how it would differ. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 What exactly are you asking? If it would be a media story if it was a civilian car accident? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzermartin Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 What a horrible way to go. Stupid war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volfrahm Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 What exactly are you asking? If it would be a media story if it was a civilian car accident? No, no. I'm asking how the paramedic would've responded in comparison to the combat medic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I don't think you can really get much clinical info from the video, can you? You just see a guy running an IV line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volfrahm Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 I don't think you can really get much clinical info from the video, can you? You just see a guy running an IV line. In the unedited version there is more to the IV line, but yeah there isn't enough info besides the fact that there was a severed limb. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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