The Tale of Camp Caldwell - For those of you still sending me PMs - General

Damn that story was great. You should write a book some time as I bet you have some more stories to tell.

Amazing story. Thank you for serving. Very sorry to hear about the loss of your friends. You get a very well deserved salute. [img]http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/attachments/politics/3848d1182537095-air-force-staff-sgt-earl-covel-soldier_salute.gif[/img]

You deserve a gold medal.

Oh hey I remember this thread. Good read. Sorry about your losses though. also eyepatch.

Badass looking humvee.

Shit, sorry about the eye and the loss of your two friends. That must be pretty tough to live with. At least everyone thinks you're badass now. You should get an eyepatch.

I know I'm late. But respect man. Respect.

[img]http://www.hollywoodgoldenguy.com/gold-star-background.jpg[/img] Here you go Linelor, a Gold star. :buddy: Better than any bronze star some military would give you.

Good read, you're a brave guy Linelor.

Respected user? Hardly enough for such a hero. Give this man a Bronze Star membership! I have always said that if I was handicapped in any way I would apply as a test subject for the research of medical technology. You could help out with bionic eye research and probably earn yourself a pretty penny, and help out the blind while you're at it. The downside is that you may need to have your blind eye removed, which I personally would be quite reluctant to do. I plan on joining the Australian Defense Force when I am older. Planning on being a chopper pilot. I doubt I'll get the position I want, but by god I will try.

[QUOTE=BradB;17565878]Respected user? Hardly enough for such a hero. Give this man a Bronze Star membership! I have always said that if I was handicapped in any way I would apply as a test subject for the research of medical technology. You could help out with bionic eye research and probably earn yourself a pretty penny, and help out the blind while you're at it. The downside is that you may need to have your blind eye removed, which I personally would be quite reluctant to do. I plan on joining the Australian Defense Force when I am older. Planning on being a chopper pilot. I doubt I'll get the position I want, but by god I will try.[/QUOTE] Would also mean countless hours of pointless bullshit away from work and my family.

Sad to hear about the eye :saddowns: How hard is it to adjust to seeing with one eye?

It's been a long time since I showed this thread any attention so I'll give a little update since I got put on the subject by someone earlier. About a month ago I saw the doc and he said my leg is "fully healed and recovered" now, despite the pain I have. Needless to say, my eye still doesn't work, and the burn scars are still there, but I'm getting better. After nearly 5 years my big toenail on my right foot still hasn't grown back, which is a bit odd, but my doc assures me that the root was just damaged and that it won't affect anything. Apparently there's no known "Use" for a toenail. If you get told this you will think about it then agree until you drop something on it or stub your toe and it hurts about 10 times worse. Late last year I had the last of the shrapnel removed from my leg. 2 little pieces; one about the size of a pencil eraser, a bit smaller, and the other a really thin piece the size of a ballpoint pen's head. Both steel and the smaller one even had a bit of olive green paint on it which means it was a bit of the HMMWV's door most likely. Kinda neat, I have them in a little jar with the other pieces they pulled out. Will try to get a picture at some point, but my camera is on the fritz again. Anyway, I kinda feel like talking about some more of the things I experienced and I have shared many of them with my friends I play games with and what not, but the memories don't bother me as much as they used to. If you have a question I'll answer it. Don't have to beat around the bush on a question, but be nice about it.

Would you go back if your eye was healed up fully and if you were asked to?

God speed, brave man.

[QUOTE=Linelor;20680412]It's been a long time since I showed this thread any attention so I'll give a little update since I got put on the subject by someone earlier. About a month ago I saw the doc and he said my leg is "fully healed and recovered" now, despite the pain I have. Needless to say, my eye still doesn't work, and the burn scars are still there, but I'm getting better. After nearly 5 years my big toenail on my right foot still hasn't grown back, which is a bit odd, but my doc assures me that the root was just damaged and that it won't affect anything. Apparently there's no known "Use" for a toenail. If you get told this you will think about it then agree until you drop something on it or stub your toe and it hurts about 10 times worse. Late last year I had the last of the shrapnel removed from my leg. 2 little pieces; one about the size of a pencil eraser, a bit smaller, and the other a really thin piece the size of a ballpoint pen's head. Both steel and the smaller one even had a bit of olive green paint on it which means it was a bit of the HMMWV's door most likely. Kinda neat, I have them in a little jar with the other pieces they pulled out. Will try to get a picture at some point, but my camera is on the fritz again. Anyway, I kinda feel like talking about some more of the things I experienced and I have shared many of them with my friends I play games with and what not, but the memories don't bother me as much as they used to. If you have a question I'll answer it. Don't have to beat around the bush on a question, but be nice about it.[/QUOTE] Sorry if you already answered this question but I don't have time to go through the entire thread: Do you know who recovered you, and how long it took? From what you said you were all 4 knocked out/badly injured and you were travelling alone, so you couldn't have called for help. Did someone come to investigate the blast or did someone just stumble onto you after a while? Sorry about your friends that died though, and sorry for the prick comments some people made in this thread.

I know this sounds like a dumb thing to ask, but I heard you mentioned once that you got shot while in service. If you don't mind, would you be able to describe what that was like?

[QUOTE=LeonS;20680423]Would you go back if your eye was healed up fully and if you were asked to?[/QUOTE] I still have the problem with my leg so far as regular service that's probably not possible. But, if we ever end up invaded or something I'll fight no doubt. [QUOTE=Tucks;20680828]Sorry if you already answered this question but I don't have time to go through the entire thread: Do you know who recovered you, and how long it took? From what you said you were all 4 knocked out/badly injured and you were travelling alone, so you couldn't have called for help. Did someone come to investigate the blast or did someone just stumble onto you after a while? Sorry about your friends that died though, and sorry for the prick comments some people made in this thread.[/QUOTE] A HMMWV of marines was in range to see the blast, and another one of our HMMWVs was about half a klick back. The engineers who were my men got there first and were the ones that got us out of the wreckage. Far as what I was told Cpl. Ryan Thomas was the one at the door trying to get it open and he badly damaged his hands trying to get the door open when he saw I was still alive. Coble managed to get the door open and kinda fell out of the wreck and started dragging himself away, and he was soon helped by some others. Portman's head was gone and Brady was, well, gone mostly except what of him went all over the cab. The upper part of his torso was found in on an embankment 90ft away. They prioritized getting us out and the 404th brought a medivac in and got us to a hospital. [QUOTE=Acezorz;20681552]I know this sounds like a dumb thing to ask, but I heard you mentioned once that you got shot while in service. If you don't mind, would you be able to describe what that was like?[/QUOTE] I was hit in the tricep of my right arm. It was in the middle of a small firefight and I didn't even notice it to tell the truth. It felt like something kind of "hit" me in my right upper arm, like a small pressure really suddenly. I remember feeling really wet all of a sudden but not paying it any mind thinking it was just sweat. I didn't notice I had been shot until someone told me about it because they saw the bleeding. It wasn't very bad and was a through and through so it didn't do much damage. Docs got the bandaged up and I was back to using it within a couple weeks. After the adrenaline wore off though the I guess feeling of being shot kicked in. It's a lot like a burning, searing pain that's on the inside. It just throbs and burns really bad. I guess getting shot in different places with different things, blah blah, would bring different feelings, but that's what a 7.62 FMJ in the arm feels like.

:patriot: (Even though I am British)

Epic Troll.

What is the blindness like? Do you see a certain color, like all black or something?

[QUOTE=edberg;20685712]What is the blindness like? Do you see a certain color, like all black or something?[/QUOTE] Close your right eye. Now you know.

You're a brave man.

I salute you. You sir are my idol and I hope to join the RAF one day.

Sounds like Ironman completely jacked your little humvee incident. Must have been crazy. :ohdear:

I love how your friends just kinda blew up infront of you and you aren't even making a big deal about it. to me that'd be a HUUGEEE deal like your dick presumably also unblock me please i want to play something with you

If you were really blind in the right eye you wouldn't be posting on facepunch....... I call troll.

[QUOTE=GerardV2;20693157]If you were really blind in the right eye you wouldn't be posting on facepunch....... I call troll.[/QUOTE] On you. Out of pure curiosity, if you had the chance to sign up for the army again, would you do it?

You are an brave man for serving your country proud! Now my cousin is going back to Afghanistan :(

I winced at the part where you said your eye is gonna be permanently blinded. How hard is it?