US military doctor removes live ammo from head of Afghan soldier

They make it sound like it was a bomb or something. It was basicly a .50 cal round, as long as you dont hammer the primer it wouldnt fire.

Unlike the footage from Chechnya a few years ago of a Russian doc pulling an RPG round out of a soldier!

I've seen a reenactment of a US surgeon pulling a RPG out of a US soldier from Iraq too. Yikes!

If it's .50 Cal.....how did it get there with out the primer being used to propel the bullet? If it's a bullet then it should be a chunk of lead and that's it. Unless someone used a rubber mallet to inject the round into his head..........I don't get it.

This incident actually happened March 18. 2010. More below....



ANA soldier wound by 14.5 mm round

More thank likely they had some 14.5 rounds in the vehicle and when it was hit the rounds went everywhere. Yet another reason to wear your helmet inside the vehicle. I dont know the condition of the round since the one in the picture isnt it (what you have there is a round without the casing), so the primer could have been pretty fucked up making it a little more sensitive. If it had gone off the doctor more than likely would have been fine, although you wouldn't have anything left of the patients head.