In brief: Hunter survives days alone with broken leg
A Riverside, California, man crawled for nearly four days with a broken leg to survive after injuring himself during a hunting trip in Idaho. John Sain, 50, is recovering at a hospital in Boise but was near death several days ago when rescuers found him.
Sain, an avid hunter who’s a general contractor by trade, set off for an excursion last Wednesday in the Salmon-Challis National Forest in search of elk, KTVB-TV reported. But his hunting trip went amiss following a misstep on a log. Sain broke two bones in his right leg, he told the news station.
“Contemplated on just ending it right there, honestly,” Sain told KTVB. “There was no way I was going to make it.”
Instead, he made the decision that he would try to crawl to safety.
More than three days later, battered and bruised, Sain came across two motorcyclists who had been lost, the news station reported.
Soon after, a rescue crew went looking for them, and he was airlifted to an area hospital.
Admiral open to women in SEALs combat jobs
WASHINGTON – The commander of the Navy’s special warfare units is recommending that the SEALs and combat crew jobs be opened to women, but he warns that women will have greater risk of injury and says the service may be pressured to adjust or lower standards for the jobs.
In a five-page memo, Rear Adm. Brian Losey said that “there are no insurmountable obstacles” to opening the commando jobs to women, but he warned that there are “foreseeable impacts” to integrating them into ground combat units.
Losey’s memo to U.S. Special Operations Command was obtained by the Associated Press. It comes as the U.S. military services are in the final weeks of discussion over whether to ban women from any front-line combat jobs.
Texas gives Virginia drug for execution
HOUSTON – Texas prison officials are helping their counterparts in Virginia prepare for a scheduled execution next week by providing the state with pentobarbital, a lethal drug that corrections agencies nationwide have had difficulty obtaining.
The disclosure, which surfaced in a court filing in an Oklahoma death penalty case, was confirmed Friday by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Texas and Oklahoma are among a handful of states with laws – being challenged by death penalty opponents – that allow prison officials not to disclose where they get execution drugs.