“On May 14, Joel Stubleski was with his unit in Eastern Afghanistan, the 3-509th out of Fort Richardson, Alaska. His unit was returning from a mission when they heard gunfire,” Lacie Grosvold reports for KTVA 11.
“During the commotion, he felt a strong pressure in his upper thigh. ‘It knocked me over.’ He said he didn’t feel pain right away. He didn’t see blood, so he continued to reload. He’d been hit,” Grosvold reports. “Once he knew what had happened, he took cover and waited. A fellow soldier put the tourniquet he kept in his pocket around his leg. Stubleski waited. While he waited, he thought, ‘Is this it? If it is, there’s nothing I can do — at least I went out doing what I was supposed to do.’ He was bleeding and, he said, he started feeling tired. ‘I kept telling myself, don’t close your eyes.'”
“After helicopters picked him up, medics inspected his injuries. They cut off his clothes and went through his pockets. There, they found his iPhone — with a bullet hole through it. ‘The medics would come up to me and say, ‘this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,”” Grosvold reports. “Stubleski wasn’t carrying it for calling or texting. He said he used it as a camera or for music. The doctors told him how lucky he was that the bullet didn’t hit the femoral artery. They said that the iPhone probably changed the trajectory of the bullet, making the wound shallower in his flesh.”
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Lucky guy. There have been many examples like this over the years, of people who’s lives have been saved by a wallet or cigarette case or something like a coin stopping or deflecting a bullet or shrapnel. Pays to carry junk around in your pockets just in case!
The guy might be a “goner” if he’d bought a cheap, plastic Android phone.
‘Goner’, if you mean self inflicted wound by means of IED Phones that blow up…
Headline should read “The high and uncompromising taste of Jony Ive saves U.S. soldier’s life.”
Nothing is as hard and as impenetrable than the head of an Apple fanboi.
And nothing is as funny as watching a troll make a complete arse of itself. Perhaps you should take up another trade: politics or furious masturbation would better suit your demonstrably mediocre intellect.
=:~)
Why? This is too much fun.
Nothing is AS hard and impenetrable THAN your grammar.
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Try not being a fanboy just once in your fucking life. You miserable piece of shit! You have no respect for anything. Go back in your mom’s basement and play a game.
Little touchy, I see. You made me smile.
I may have to rethink my position on the value of wearable tech…
The Gideons used to distribute New Testaments with a steel plate embedded in the cover. Over the years they have saved the life of more than a few troops.
“Over the years they have saved the life of more than a few troops.”
In more ways than one!
The Manipulator: Analysts predict that iphones will not be bullet proof, news at 11, stock drop at 11:01.
I knew there was an app for that!
I need to know which model iPhone this was. A v4 with glass on front and back, or one of the other models with a metal back.
What I want to know is….did it still work after?
God bless you Joel. Thank you very much for serving your country and its citizens.
Yes.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the phone still works.
You truly are deluded. If you are so sure of the durability of the iPhone why don’t you fire a high-powered rifle round into your own phone.
Did Siri say anything during this ordeal?
“Make love, not war.”
Dear Tim Cook,
Send this guy a free iphone 5, seriously.
Meca
Apple cannot be seen supporting the war effort. That would be unconscionable.
Can they be seen supporting a soldier putting his life on the line to do his job?
Ah, battle rattle – I remember it well….
The best of ‘Medicare’ and ‘Applecare’.
You know, if it hadn’t been for that bullet that I always carried in my top pocket, that flying bible would have killed me for sure…
Very cool story.
This isn’t the first time an iPhone saves a soldier’s life. It also saved a man when he encountered a black bear once. I think MDM reported on that story.
In fact, the iPhone leaped in front of the soldier and took the bullet. Then the iPhone applied the tourniquet, called in the chopper, and held the hand of the soldier. Once arriving at hospital the iPhone gave two units of blood to the soldier while simultaneously performing life saving surgery.
And the incident of the black bear, yes, I remember that one, too. The bear charged the hiker who squealed and held the IPhone toward the bruin. The bear rolled on the ground, holding its sides, laughing. This allowed the hiker to escape without a scratch.
Does this void the warranty?
HTC phones on their own have saved at least 2 lives. Android phones are far superior……….