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Safety first

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

As a military wife I saw several potential nominees for these awards that served with my husband. The dearest of these was a poor lad brought into the emergency room when I was present. This took place in the early 80's (a ways back I admit) but still makes me chuckle.

The young man was a non commissioned officer who had recently been on a motorcycle. He drew attention of those at Eglin AFB Medical clinic because of his hesitancy to give out any personal information. He was bleeding profusely from his face and from what we could gather had nearly ripped the nose from his face.

The story emerged that he was riding a motorcycle on his way to work on base. Being a warm day he decided to leave his helmet behind. Going a bit fast and enjoying the feeling of independance without a helmet he took a quick turn into a parking lot and rammed his face right into the back of a load of pipe that was on a truck parked in front of him.

The young man was embarrassed. No matter how he was coaxed he did not want to give his C.O.'s name or the name of his Company. Told that the base commander would be notified to trace his unit if he did not comply he finally - reluctantly gave the name of his unit. He finally admitted to working in "Safety". The young man survived but clearly was wiser for his misadventure.

Submitted on 07/04/2008

Submitted by: Faith D Bengtson
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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Usually, we toss motorcycle-sans-helmet incidents as being too common, but your superlative write-up pretty much makes this a keeper! That, and I'm a military type myself! :-) Thanks, Faith!

Tracy said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Great story - and I wish other stories could be written as well as yours! I like the fact he worked in "safety" :-)

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