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Many moons ago, when I was still in the Navy, my sub had a dude get kidney stones blocking both sides. Dude couldn't pee at all, poor bastard. This is a major medical emergency, but we're out in the middle of the Pacific, well beyond where any helicopter can reach. We're so far out that it takes us a week of Flank Speed and only slowing down to check our radio messages every so often to get within Pave Hawk range of the coast. And even that was one Pave Hawk plus a PAIR of C-130 tankers to give the Pave Hawk enough legs to get to us.The PJs drop in, scoop up poor Dude, and they're gone in minutes. They seriously might have only been on the deck for 3 minutes. Just long enough to get Dude into one of their own safety harnesses to haul into the helo.We come back in, and Dude is back. He's got the business cards of the whole crew that grabbed him, one card says "SRA". WTF is an SRA? That's USAF for Senior Airman, which is an E4. That PJ had been in the USAF for 14 years and was only an E4. The PJ job description is "jump out of a helicopter into the middle of a firefight to rescue whoever needs it." And they can't freaking promote someone.
Many moons ago, when I was still in the Navy, my sub had a dude get kidney stones blocking both sides. Dude couldn't pee at all, poor bastard. This is a major medical emergency, but we're out in the middle of the Pacific, well beyond where any helicopter can reach. We're so far out that it takes us a week of Flank Speed and only slowing down to check our radio messages every so often to get within Pave Hawk range of the coast. And even that was one Pave Hawk plus a PAIR of C-130 tankers to give the Pave Hawk enough legs to get to us.
The PJs drop in, scoop up poor Dude, and they're gone in minutes. They seriously might have only been on the deck for 3 minutes. Just long enough to get Dude into one of their own safety harnesses to haul into the helo.
We come back in, and Dude is back. He's got the business cards of the whole crew that grabbed him, one card says "SRA". WTF is an SRA? That's USAF for Senior Airman, which is an E4. That PJ had been in the USAF for 14 years and was only an E4. The PJ job description is "jump out of a helicopter into the middle of a firefight to rescue whoever needs it." And they can't freaking promote someone.
