Photo provided by Brandon Adam’s family
Sgt. Brandon Adam:
“I’ve pieced this together from what
people have told me. I remember about 30 seconds after I got hit. I slumped over, fell and was all disoriented. It was dark. I couldn’t see. There was smoke everywhere. I was more worried about my buddy who was sitting where the hole was. I thought he had died. I tried to get up and couldn’t … suddenly it felt like a million hot needles in my legs. I yelled out twice that I thought my legs were on fire. They found me, dragged me out and immediately my best buddy John put a tourniquet on my left leg. The right leg was too mangled for a tourniquet. They have these things like a patch that coagulate the blood. They couldn’t really control the bleeding on my right side”/
Marianne Love
/Slight Detour, River Journal.
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