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Brief background, I work on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan fixing computers. Today at lunch I started talking with two Air Force officers. They were here temporarily from Nellis Airfield, NV.
In the dining hall they have TV's mounted and AFN has a public announcement segment of called called "In Memoriam" It listed the Americans who died while serving our nation
Both officers got real quiet and said, "Thats the guy". I realized something had happened to both of them and asked politely if they knew anyone listed there.
They glanced at each other and then told me that when coming to Bagram they had a layover at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar. They went to the track to get some exercise. There was another airman running and he suddenly fell. They both went to see what was wrong, the airman had quit breathing!!
Both instantly started performing CPR while someone contacted EMS. The airman would start to breath and then quit. Both kept doing CPR until the Air Force medics showed up and loaded him in the ambulance. They both went back to the barracks and then flew to Bagram the next day.
I do not ask if they went to the hospital to check on the status of the airman, I suspect they did. I am also pretty sure that no one outside of the EMS crew/hospital know of their efforts to keep a fellow airman alive.
The last comment they had it that the airman was breathing when the ambulance pulled away. I thanked them for their service and their efforts to keeping the airman alive. They were flying back to Nellis Air field today. I took comfort that these Officers are in the majority of military that I have seen. When something bad happens they run toward the disaster instead of away from it.
My own thought was I think the airman's family would be comforted to known that in his last moments on Earth people were trying to save him.
In the dining hall they have TV's mounted and AFN has a public announcement segment of called called "In Memoriam" It listed the Americans who died while serving our nation
Both officers got real quiet and said, "Thats the guy". I realized something had happened to both of them and asked politely if they knew anyone listed there.
They glanced at each other and then told me that when coming to Bagram they had a layover at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar. They went to the track to get some exercise. There was another airman running and he suddenly fell. They both went to see what was wrong, the airman had quit breathing!!
Both instantly started performing CPR while someone contacted EMS. The airman would start to breath and then quit. Both kept doing CPR until the Air Force medics showed up and loaded him in the ambulance. They both went back to the barracks and then flew to Bagram the next day.
I do not ask if they went to the hospital to check on the status of the airman, I suspect they did. I am also pretty sure that no one outside of the EMS crew/hospital know of their efforts to keep a fellow airman alive.
The last comment they had it that the airman was breathing when the ambulance pulled away. I thanked them for their service and their efforts to keeping the airman alive. They were flying back to Nellis Air field today. I took comfort that these Officers are in the majority of military that I have seen. When something bad happens they run toward the disaster instead of away from it.
My own thought was I think the airman's family would be comforted to known that in his last moments on Earth people were trying to save him.
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