Braxton McCoy

And pretty soon he goes, dude, you're not wearing any underwear, you know?

And I was like, fuck you, dude, it's cold, okay?

So we're trying to have as much fun as we can about it.

But I think pretty much everybody thought I was going to die, including me.

And every time, so your femurs, your glutes are so strong that when your femurs break that bad, they contract.

They pull together.

So my femurs were like as long as they were wide, which in the end might have saved my life really from bleeding out.

But I could see every time I would, my heart would beat, water would, or blood and kind of pus and stuff would come out of all these different holes.

Like if you had a water bottle and squeeze it rhythmically.

And so they were trying to get that stuff patched up and they pretty, you know, I think they realized pretty quickly that they just had to get me on medevac or I wasn't gonna make it.

And the medevac they had available was a five ton.

So they threw me on a litter and then put me on this five ton and some sort of major.

in his infinite wisdom, had put speed bumps on the road all the way from Ogden Gate to Charlie Med.

So, you know, those five tons, it's like riding on a brick already.

So I'm just bouncing back there, rattling.

I feel my bones inside.

In my book, I think I described it as like a bag of wrenches.

Damn.

And they get me to Charlie Med, and that's where they established, you know, started getting blood transfusions going in my arms.

And then they put me on a bird to try to medevac me to Balad, you know, which is where you want to go.