I just read a good story about US Representative Derrick Van Orden, a retired Navy Seal, witnessing a nasty auto accident on the highway somewhere in Iowa.
He stopped immediately to assist with any injured occupants of the destroyed van.
Turns out one of the occupants was a severely injured 10-year old boy bleeding profusely from an arm and leg. The arm had arterial bleeding, which would have been fatal within a very few minutes. A large part of the muscle on the back of the leg was almost completely separated from the bone.
Thinking fast, Van Orden retrieved a couple of socks from a a bad in his car, and used them for tourniquets on the damaged limbs. As he continued to deal with the kid's injuries he realized the needed to improvise additional bandage material, and asked the gathering crowd if "anyone had a knife"? Someone from the crowd offered him his knife.
The boy lived to make it to the hospital and will recover.
I have to ask- "What Navy Seal , active duty or retired, does not have some kind of knife on his person at all times?".
In the area where I live, in the SW MO Ozarks, almost all adult males over the age of 30 or so carry a pocket knife of some sort, ex-military/law-enforcement or not. I carry two, a Swiss Army knife and a Benchmade lock blade 365 days a year. A gun too, but that is another story.
The Good Samaritan is free to make his own choices on this sort of thing, of course.
It just struck me as a little odd.
He stopped immediately to assist with any injured occupants of the destroyed van.
Turns out one of the occupants was a severely injured 10-year old boy bleeding profusely from an arm and leg. The arm had arterial bleeding, which would have been fatal within a very few minutes. A large part of the muscle on the back of the leg was almost completely separated from the bone.
Thinking fast, Van Orden retrieved a couple of socks from a a bad in his car, and used them for tourniquets on the damaged limbs. As he continued to deal with the kid's injuries he realized the needed to improvise additional bandage material, and asked the gathering crowd if "anyone had a knife"? Someone from the crowd offered him his knife.
The boy lived to make it to the hospital and will recover.
I have to ask- "What Navy Seal , active duty or retired, does not have some kind of knife on his person at all times?".
In the area where I live, in the SW MO Ozarks, almost all adult males over the age of 30 or so carry a pocket knife of some sort, ex-military/law-enforcement or not. I carry two, a Swiss Army knife and a Benchmade lock blade 365 days a year. A gun too, but that is another story.
The Good Samaritan is free to make his own choices on this sort of thing, of course.
It just struck me as a little odd.
