Diana West
Only the U.S. military could build a defensive wall of words — “dismounted complex blast injury” (DCBI) — around the bare fact that single, double, triple, even quadruple amputations are up sharply among U.S. forces on foot patrol in Afghanistan. So are associated pelvic, abdominal and genital injuries, according to a newly released report.
Even the antiseptic language of the report is excruciating, as when it calls for “further refinement” of “aggressive pain management at the POI (point of injury),” or highlights the need to train more military urologists in “phallic reconstruction surgery.”
It isn’t management but prevention that is called for.
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I told my son he should hurry up and join the army. Pretty soon he’ll be too old to get his nuts blown off and picked up by a queer. It’s no wonder we can’t whup a couple of shitholes like Iraq and Afghanistan. You don’t fraternize with the enemy. You kill them. But what can you expect with college graduates like Gen. Betrayus running things? People who took four years to learn to smoke dope and bu***uck shouldn’t be in charge of anything let alone our defense forces. Hang Saddam and kiss Al Sadr’s behind? I’ll keep my heart if you don’t mind.