Shot in the Head!!

[Wingsofwind]

Remarkable. That’s the only word for this story. His buddies have now nick-named him “Headshot.” From the Marine Corps Times:

Marine Sgt. Takes Sniper Round To The Head; Smokes A Cigarette 15 Minutes Later

“Manning the top of a compound south of Sangin, Afghanistan, Sgt. Paul Boothroyd III took a sniper round to the head. He landed face down onto the muddy roof with a thud.

Fifteen minutes later, Boothroyd was bandaged, smiling, smoking a cigarette and giving the “thumbs up” as he waited for the medevac helicopter, to which he walked under his own power.

It’s a “you-gotta-be-kidding-me” story that earned Boothroyd, a signals intelligence operator with 2nd Radio Battalion, a new call sign from his team members: Headshot.

“It was a one-in-a-million shot that the sniper was even able to hit me,” he said in an interview with Marine Corps Times, “and a one-in-a-million chance that the bullet didn’t destroy my brain. It wasn’t my time.”


Early March 4 in Helmand province, Boothroyd, attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was on a rooftop providing over-watch for a local security patrol. It was his first deployment. Insurgents opened fire, “and I got hit by the first bullet,” he said.

The bullet pierced his helmet. The Kevlar caught and turned the round, he said, “so instead of going in and thrashing my skull,” it entered through the neck and lodged itself above and behind his right ear.

“It was like being hit by a train,” he recalled. “I remember what I was doing. I remember being hit, then I was face down in the mud on top of the building. I really wasn’t terribly concerned because I could hear bullets whipping above me, but I still had the presence of mind not to stand up. I thought, ‘Well, I don’t have any brain damage, at least at this point.’ ”

 

[Douger]

The sniper should have shot him in the ass....... where his brain is.

 

[Wingsofwind]

Most people would think that a head shot is a definite kill when in fact it is not. To get a definite kill in the head you have to hit in the 'T' spot (across the eye area and down to the nose). Most of anywhere else if not close enough the bullet would most likely bounce off or only slip through the skin and around the skull. This is why the Marine Sgt. survived.

 

[Sarah G]

Oh look, tank's brother again...

 

[Toome]

He survived the head shot because of the kevlar. The old steel pot would not have deflected the round.

 

[Sallow]

Wow.

Lucky guy.

Good for him. Now if he would only stop smoking..

 

[Wingsofwind]

He survived the head shot because of the kevlar. The old steel pot would not have deflected the round.

Yes, you are right, I missed that part of the article. However, what I said is still true about head shots. Defence instructors teach this in their handgun training classes. That is how I learned it.

They teach that the best place is mid body, then the next is the pelvic area, THEN the head. Always leave the head shot as a last resort.

 

[Wingsofwind]

Oh look, tank's brother again...

lol. This isn't even a racist thread.

You must be out to only attack peolpe on this forum. So you have nothing to say about the article?





And I thought I told you I could not be a 'brother' due to the fact I am a woman.

 

[editec]

OUCH.

That's gonna leave a mark.

 

[rightwinger]

Smoked a cigarette?

Doesn't he know those things can kill you?