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Armybrat

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  1. That depends on the wound and immediate response. 12 years ago my son severed his femoral artery in his upper thigh with an electric hand saw. He was alone in a house he was renovating, standing chest deep in a hole in the wood floor cutting some framing when the saw hit a nail and kicked back. He pulled himself out as quickly as he could, laid on the floor with his leg propped up on a box, then took off his belt and used it as a tourniquet around his upper thigh. He dialed 911 on the cell phone we had given him just a few months prior (his wife, a hippie Luddite, had been very reluctant to use such gadgets) and waited for the EMS which luckily was stationed only 3 or 4 blocks away in North Austin. When the responder crew arrived and walked in the door, one of the guys looked at the blood sprayed all over the floor, walls, & ceiling he exclaimed loudly, ”Holy shit!”. The ensuing ambulance ride out of the neighborhood down to Brackenridge Hospital was a miserable pain every time they went over a speed bump. But son owes his life to those EMS responders and the wonderful staff in the ER. Plus his own Boy Scout training. After the surgery the doctor said he had bled out at least three liters, and was surprised he had not gone into cardiac arrest. Son was still white as a sheet of paper when we saw him in the ICU. It took 6 months for him to recover full use of his leg and get back to normal.
  2. But will say, my earliest recollection of a momentous world event was the Berlin Blockade and subsequent Airlift. That was a big topic of conversation between my parents at the dinner table.
  3. In case you missed it, that’s why I bolded the 1945 date.
  4. I remember well when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
  5. It would behoove everybody if US & NATO commanders would be in backchannel communications with their Russian counterparts in the field asking them if they want to be destroyed and wiped off the face of the Earth because of Putin’s fucking around? Because those Russians know that will be the outcome of any showdown. Not all of them are that stupid to take the risk of continuing to wreck their own motherland.
  6. I have never heard of him either, but then again I quit paying attention to most of the political cesspool years ago. What’s left of my life is way too short to be constantly outraged & upset, plus my opinions wouldn’t mean shit to anybody here anyway.
  7. Fixed it for myself.
  8. It isn’t difficult to imagine what these Graf critics look like… Same for Arch’s….
  9. Say, that’s MY line!
  10. Fify for Rocky Mountain Oysters.
  11. I was highly disappointed when the hotdog cart (very good dogs made to order plus a tap beer from the bar for $1.25) back in the Barabary Coast sports book went away after that hotel/casino reimagined itself into a snob joint.
  12. Do tell…..
  13. A garnish.
  14. I had a thickly layered BLT at the Mirage hotel deli in Vegas. It came with a side of bacon.
  15. Wednesday is trash day. But when it comes to OU and A&M, every day is trash day.
  16. This is more like its reality…
  17. Yep, they primarily cater to Vegas locals and visitors/tourists who don’t like the Strip or Fremont Street.
  18. I’d like to trade in my dipstick
  19. A little old lady friend & her husband from Ketucky (not big gamblers) still like to go out there 3-4 times a year. Hates the Strip but likes staying at Red Rock & Green Valley Ranch to play VP. She’s there right now and hit these the first two days at GVR….so she’s happy enough:
  20. Join Bluesky The open social network. Create account Rory Blank (on vacation) ‪@roryblank.bsky.social‬ Follow I made a way better logo for the city of Austin two years ago that they could have used for half as much as the other one cost
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