Quote Originally Posted by SmokeyTokey
I served in the Marines for over four years. I made it out to Afghanistan and other nice vacation spots, but I did have something tragic happen to me while I was overseas. I was a part of a training mission and we were firing rockets from shoulder fired rocket launchers. This was my job and I had fired about hundred of these rockets at this point. That night my rocket launcher blew up on my shoulder knocking me out momentarily. I woke up with gas burns all over my face and neck. The corpsmen had to pick pieces of shrapnel out of my face. I was very lucky. Five Marines in previous years had their heads completely removed from their shoulders while firing the same rocket launcher.

I have nightmares about this all the time. I usually have dreams of losing my head, and I often hear the sound of the explosion that I remember from that day.

That experience has profoundly affected my psyche.

I'm sad to hear taht. Thank you for protecting us. I;m so glad you are with us and hopefully those nightmares diminish and let you rest. You've been through a lot.:s4: :joint1: :jointsmile: