During a routine patrol in Baghdad June 2, Army Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a medic, was shot in the chest by an enemy sniper, hiding in a van just 75 yards away. The incident was filmed by the insurgents.
Tschiderer, with E Troop, 101st “Saber” Cavalry Division, attached to 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, was knocked to the ground from the impact, but he popped right back up, took cover and located the enemy’s position.
After tracking down the now-wounded sniper with a team from B Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Iraqi Army Brigade, Tschiderer secured the terrorist with a pair of handcuffs and gave medical aid to the terrorist who’d tried to kill him just minutes before.
Read the account of the incident from the 256th Brigade Combat Team.
This is the sucky side of war. It must be hard to help someone who just tried to kill you. That shows an amazing discipline and honor among our forces. God bless them! Cheers Cao! Keep up the good work. I know we rarely agree but I respect you. CHEERS!
I don’t know why you pad your comment with “I know we rarely agree”…I suppose that’s for the benefit of your leftist friends who troll here. Which makes it kind of a posturing if not backhanded compliment, but I suppose I should be thankful for small favors. Sláinte.
I personally wish that they had sent the sniper and his terrorist brethren to the great and might Allah that he kept claiming was so great during the video. (I only heard Allah Ackbar four or five times.) I can’t believe they even wasted the medical supplies on the scum. The surviving vermin will only live to fight again now….:mad:
They guy was saying “allah akbar” because he was injured. The army medic followed the trail of blood until they stumbled on the terrorist, who could go no further, I gather. You can hear the “ping” of incoming American bullets firing at the terrorists as they’re filming. I’m sure the little weasel was convinced he was about to die. He sounds scared, though, he doesn’t sound happy and triumphant.
I’m just glad the young American man is alive. But I agree with you–we should be hardening our hearts. These people would have no mercy on any of us. They want to kill us and our children. As you said, we save them, they’ll live to kill more Americans on another day. The ones who are imprisoned don’t express any remorse for what they’ve done, they express absolute disregard for our laws, saying the only law they live by is sharia law. Evidence of that was the trial of Mohammed Bouyeri-the Moraccan man who killed Theo Van Gogh who said to Van Gogh’s mother: “I cannot feel for you because I believe you are an infidel.” and this other one, Al Timimi, the Virginia man who was sentenced to life in prison:
In an impassioned speech before the sentencing, Ali Timimi, a prominent Muslim spiritual leader, asserted his innocence, read the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and said his religious beliefs do not recognize “secular law.”
I get so sick-n-tired of this “politically correct” **** … IT’S A DAMN WAR — WAR IS ABSOLUTE HELL ON EVERYONE!
Like we said back in ‘Nam — “Kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out”.
This Bullshit of feeling sorry for some Communist ******* who wants you dead has got to stop some time — or, would we rather fight them on our own soil, so you can see and experience the REAL HORRORS AND TERRORS OF WAR in your own schools; churches; neighborhoods; etc?
Think about it — something just might click!
Be glad I, or any other seasoned Combat Vet isn’t in charge — we would’ve leveled most of Iraq and Afghanistan by now — they need new parking lots for their smelly-*** Camels anyway.