WWS pal John posts an interesting tidbit at Op-For that comes in an email from “a VMI Army Captain who routinely runs into IEDs on patrol.” The captain writes:
John, IEDs do not have a melting effect upon contact with human skin. Some are configured to expel more fire than shrapnel, but those are rare and I have never heard of one melting skin as if you were holding a lighter to the face of a GI Joe action figure. I emailed a PAO to dig further into this story, she said she will look into it. I’ll let you know what I find out.
It’s interesting, but after three days of this story circulating, not a single person has stepped forward to say they know of a woman matching this description, let alone that they remember a woman of this description from their time at FOB Falcon…so if the woman is imaginary, then we shouldn’t be surprised that the wounds are too.
