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I will get all the soldier stuff in it's own catagory soon. For now, the story continues.

Yesterday I got a call from the Captain at Ft. Bragg in charge of helping visitors. She was full of good information on housing and visitor rules. She also told us that Jewel had her leg re-broken and set yesterday.

Why was this nessesary? She was wounded on the 22nd in an action that has recieved, as far as I can tell, one tiny paragraph on one page on the internet that mentions the mortar fire she was hit with. She was seen by the EMT's in Iraq and has been at the hospital in Germany since the 23rd. In 6 days no doctor has had the time to set a broken leg. They are too busy with more seriously wounded soldiers.

This tells me that:
we are not being told the full count of the wounded
that there are not enough doctors available to treat the wounded we do have
we are NOT taking care of our own.

Jewel was already the soldier closest to a mortar round because she was in Iraq and doing her job as a soldier, performing a duty for her country. Instead of treating her in a timely manner we have to re-injure our soldier, slowing her recovery further, costing us more in the long run in the extended time it will take for her to heal because she has laid in a drugged stupor in a US hopital for 6 days and no one there could set her leg before it began to heal wrong.