WTF?

[unhappycamper]

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/11/ap-new-nose-for-soldier-111212/



In this Nov. 8 photo provided by Green Room PR, Shannon Cruz, 40, of Fayetteville, N.C., poses for a photo in the office of plastic surgeon Dr. Charles Finn in Chapel Hill, N.C., before a surgical procedure. Cruz was injured in 2006 in an ambush in Afghanistan. Finn operated on Cruz free through a program called Faces of Honor that began in 2009. Cruz is a chief warrant officer in the Army, based at Fort Bragg, and was in the Air Force when he was injured.


Soldier gets free surgery to fix injured nose
By Martha Waggoner - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 12, 2012 11:24:23 EST

Cruz was in the Air Force when the Taliban attacked his team in Uruzgan province. The enemy attacked with a Soviet heavy machine gun, disabling their vehicle and blowing out its tires. He slammed into an M240 machine gun, which weighs about 35 pounds. The impact not only broke the bone in his nose but moved the cartilage so that his left nostril was blocked, leaving him unable to breathe through that side.



unhappycamper comment: So a military doctor preformed an operation in 2006 and Cruz couldn't breath properly six months later. Cruz and his family had to tolerate this condition for six fucking years before he got free civilian surgery, hence the title for this thread.

[HereSince1628]

1. Maybe the military decided he had a spare working nostril and back-up via mouth breathing

It's hard to fathom why this couldn't be addressed sooner.

But most vets know that 'hard to fathom' could be said about much of the military's decision making.