From the great team at Blackfive. It’s about a local kid (local to me, that is) from Virginia, a medic who saved the life of a French soldier in Afghanistan last year, even though, as sometimes happens, none of the French could communicate with him (nor did the French have communications to other NATO groups, shockingly enough).

Medics, Navy corpsmen, et. al. don’t get nearly enough praise. You don’t win awards for that if you’re a modern journalist; you have to find a black spot at Walter Reed and then act as if the whole medical enterprise were rotten…