Reply #54: When I was a Medic in the Army, we were setting up for a POMCUS... [View All]

everyone was lined up for the usual shots, some by pneumatic "gun", some by standard injection. The Bn CDR, decided to have the officers stand w/the enlisted and get their shots along w/everyone else as a show of solidarity. This proved to be his undoing.

When it came to him getting poked, he refused to have a one of the Medic's a Spec 4 give him his injection, he demanded an officer....ooohhh, tough guy! Being the ranking NCO, I went to the BDE Surgeon, A full Colonel and told him of the predicament. His answer, "no problem". he walked up tot he stainless steel table that held syringes we had prepared earlier. While talking to the LtCol, he deftly removed the cap, and began tapping the needle on the table, slowly, quietly, then, just as deftly replaced the cap. His talk w/the Bn Cdr was easy going, explaining that the Medics had done this thousands of times and were quite adept at what they were doing. He then raised the blunted needle, prepped the site of injection, and stuck it into a nice fleshy part of the back of the arm. The particular injection was typhus, so this was going to be one sore little puppy. While injecting the dose, he told him he hadn't given an injection since getting out of medical school, (he was ready to retire in a couple of months), so he was sorry about any problems that might arise, he then withdrew the needle, which had a hooked from the tapping, and it had a little meat on, it. He made sure the LTC saw this, just before he turned sheet white and hit the ground...:D

The BDE Surgeon turned to me and said, "any more of these idiots, just let me know"...:patriot: