FOX News cameraman Chris Jackson was injured Sunday when an IED struck an armored Humvee convoy in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Jackson helped rescue an injured Marine from the burning vehicle.From FOX News:
A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb Sunday night in the Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold.
Two U.S. Marines were badly injured when the improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy. Though FOX News cameraman Chris Jackson was injured in the blast, he went back to the burning vehicle to rescue one of the Marines.
"The cabin was on fire and I jumped out," said Jackson in a report filed immediately following the attack. "I went, grabbed the sergeant out of the shotgun seat, pulled him out."
Read more ....
My Comment: Reporters who are embedded with soldiers in a war zone always have a perspective that is different from the reporters and editors back home. They eat, shit, sleep, and bleed with their fellow soldiers .... this has an impact and an understanding that is not possible by reading about it back home. I just wish that there were more reporters in the field .... like Michael Yon .... who are reporting from the ground in the war zone.
No comments:
Post a Comment