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| Airbornedoc reporting for duty. What do you mean by "cracked wrist?" Permanent damage? Depends on the above. Tell me where he hurts and the mechanism of injury. I was a stick leader in airborne school and I told guys with sprained ankles from the 4th jump, our night jump, to ice down their ankle and elevate it in the barracks, suck up the run to the airfield the following day for the 5th jump, fall on the dz, grab their ankle and scream for a medic, get their wings. They did and they got their wings. I had guys jump with what I thought were broken ribs but they jumped to get their pay then I sent them for an xray. They had broken ribs. I had a Command Sergeant Major tell me he thought he broke his hip on the dz. He was standing so I told him to walk to the HUMV. Limped like hell. It was broken and he got an operation. Boy, was I embarrassed, LOL. Hell, I jumped and got my German wings three weeks after I broke my 6th cervical vertebrae when I flipped over coming out of a 141. Now that was stupid. My neck still hurts. I love those wings though. I purposely refused to show my badly chewed up heels to the medic at air assault school because even I would have pulled me from the course if someone had come to me with those horrendus blisters from the road march. Hard headed? In the words of Dick Winters, XO E Co, 2/506 101 ABN at Bastogne "We're paratroopers, we're supposed to be surrounded."
It's okay to have fear. It's what you do with your fear that makes you who you are and who you will be. Airbornedad to airborneson
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I think it is Ft. Sam Houston, not Hood where the Medic course is,,,but I digress.
I was recycled at the start of week 2 of Jump School for a mild ankle injury, I rolled it when I accidentally stepped off the edge of the run track during morning PT (Black Hat noticed my limp the next day). Was held back a week but graduated in the next cycle. I was pissed at the time, but in the long run it was best to not hurt myself more. Nothing worse than having a mild strain turn into something that can only be fixed by surgery.
Depending on the type of injury,, it might be possible to suck it up, but there is a lot of stress on the arms, wrists & hands during Ground Week, with all the hanging from all the PLF practice devices and push-up's & pull-up's.
I'd recommend icing it whenever possible, wrapping it would be immediately noticed by the Black Hats.
What do you mean by "Cracked"? Is it severely sprained or is it possible there are broken bones? How much swelling & discoloration are present? He needs to try finding a real doc to look it over on the sly without the Airborne cadre finding out about it. If it is seriously injured, just tell him to take a bad tumble during PLF practice and have the medics check it out there on the spot. He has a better chance of staying in the course if injured during the course than if he never started.
Just my 2 centavos worth of free advice.
Tex out, John Holloway.
Diplomacy, subtlety and regard for someones feelings don't seem to blend well with the "Spirit of the Bayonet"!
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Malignant Narcissist
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Everyone gets hurt sooner or later. When I was in, those that couldn't hang got to wear the duck hunter hats...those that sucked it up got the beret...
 Do you listen to yourself when you talk; or do you just fade in and out?
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| When I was a Blackhat at BAC, sometimes you think you have seen it all, till you get to jump week! There are men and women who would get off of a stretcher put there T-10 harness on and jump IF you let them! So that is why we usually double time down to Lawson Army Airfield and do all of those pre-jump PLF's. While all of this is being done Sgt Airborne is watching you with very closely. Usually if you can get through all of that and put that T-10 harness on REAL tight you will be ok to jump! As you well know its not the airplane exit that bothers you it is that landing that you will have to deal with. Oh by the way all you have to do is make 1 airborne jump to be qualified by US Army standards, BUT and I say B-U-T no Airborne unit will take you unless you have completed all 5 jumps. Its kinda like going to Ranger school and completing the Ranger course, BUT I say again B-U-T never being able to wear the RANGER tab.
------------------------------------------------------------ Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus, circa 500 BC ----------------------------------------------------------- 
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Malignant Narcissist
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| I thought it was 5 jumps at the school or 1 combat jump...It would look kinda funny...a mustard stain on nothing above the US Army Name Tape.... 
Do you listen to yourself when you talk; or do you just fade in and out?
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