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November 13, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Roger L Simon
Johan Amedeus Metesky
2007-11-13 14:21:09

I found the names of those two soldiers:

Sgt Major “Blackhawk Bob” Gallagher, a former special forces solder and veteran of the infamous “Black Hawk Down” mission in Somalia, quickly lived up to his other nickname, the “Metal Magnet”. An RPG exploded nearby, causing a shrapnel wound to his ankle, to add to the collection begun in Mogadishu – bullet wounds in both arms and shrapnel in his back. Sgt Major Gallagher, 40, remained standing and carried on firing, ignoring the medics bandaging his legs….

in a makeshift aid station, Capt Mike Cutler, the battalion medical officer, attended to the living. Pte Chris Nauman, 20, of St Louis, Missouri, lay on a stretcher, wounded in the knee. It was either the morphine or the shock, but he couldn’t stop repeating his story. “We took some incoming. I pushed my buddy down so I took something in the leg myself. My buddy, he’s still fighting. They’re all fighting.

“I dropped my M16 but there was no way I was letting go of my 12-gauge shotgun. I was pulling security all the way back on that stretcher. Just as well. This guy pops up four feet away. I just leaned over on the stretcher and I was, like, ‘boom!’ – I got him.”