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Via reader email (thanks Moss), here's one about some more American-style crisis management, a story about two GIs who found a way to help wounded Iraqi citizens:
Staff Sgt. Chris Cummings, a member of the Army Reserve's 478th Civil Affairs Battalion from Miami, ran a prosthetics company before he was mobilized.Now, to help Iraqi amputees in Baghdad, Cummings has combined his background in prosthetics with Capt. Steve Lindsley of the Mississippi-based 112th Military Police Battalion. Lindsley is a certified prosthetist with the Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Monroe, La. The two Soldiers have identified more than 60 Iraqi amputees, many of them children and teenagers, who would like to have new limbs.
"Captain Lindsley came up with the idea of starting a free prosthetics clinic in Iraq for local people regardless of age," Cummings said.
"Captain Lindsley's civilian boss, Chris Wallace at MRC, has been very supportive with materials," Cummings said, "and the Army has been supportive by providing us with time and a place to help people in need."
The two Soldiers are working almost every day at the Grey Wolf Forward Operation Base in Baghdad's International Zone, taking measurements for the construction of new limbs for Iraqis in the program. Work is also performed on bracing limbs that cannot support themselves.
Cummings was scheduled to go home in early October, but he has chosen to stay and help more Iraqi amputees.
"I promised a lot of people I was going to help them - I can't go back on my promises," Cummings said. "I am extending to keep those promises. We hope to have new arms and legs for people starting in mid-October of this year."
(Editor's note: Information provided by Sgt. 1st Class Clarence Kugler, 478th Civil Affairs Battalion to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command News Service.)
UPDATE: Apparently we have a bad link, so I provided a cached link.
