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Responding to Maita's call, the 29 year-old Barbe jumped from his cot, donned his flight suit, boots, flak vest and chest plate, strapped on his 9mm pistol and survival vest, and stepped into his monkey harness - the safety strap that allows him to move around in the open...
Soon he was airborne in a Black Hawk screaming toward Samawah at 140 knots. Nearing the town, Barbe saw the secured landing area - a circle of Humvees and Bradley tanks, guns pointed out, a smoke grenade billowed up giving the all-clear for the pilot to set the helicopter down...
Barbe had been told to expect one walking wounded, but as soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys...
"We got there just in Time," says Barbe, "The guy was ice cold."
As the Black Hawk tore back to the hospital at Tallil, Maita and Talraas were stable and Barbe focused on squeezing bags of saline into the dying soldier's jugular vein. To keep him from slipping into a coma, Barbe was grabbing handfuls of the patient's eyebrow hair ripping...