Why would a US Soldier die in Canada 2 weeks after being hit in Iraq?

ThomWV

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Sat May-17-08 09:06 AM
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Why would a US Soldier die in Canada 2 weeks after being hit in Iraq?

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11928

The Department of Defense is reporting that Sgt. John Daggett of Phoenix, AZ died thursday as a result of wounds suffered in Baghdad on May 1st. He was with a US unit from Hawaii. He died in Halifax Canada. What on earth was a wounded troop doing in Canada? Maybe the DoD is saving money by using the Canadian health care system for our troops.

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wishlist

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Sat May-17-08 09:10 AM
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1. Perhaps plane made emergency stop in Halifax on route elsewhere?

A friend of mine with serious medical problems went to Israel on a church tour. He started bleeding from the mouth flying home to US and plane happened to be approaching mainland over Nova Scotia so they landed in Halifax for him to get medical treatment.

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ThomWV

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Sat May-17-08 09:15 AM
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2. Very difficult to immagine

Could be I suppose but when I was in the Army a plane that was carring wounded troops wouldn't stop until it landed where it was supposed to, if some of the troops died enroute that would just be the breaks. I doubt that they were bringing a guy who was on the verge of death back to the states on a commercial flight and its just impossible for me to immagine that any sort of a military med-evac flight would stop either.

Who knows? Just sounded fishy to me.

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babylonsister

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Sat May-17-08 09:34 AM
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3. Per this, they landed in Halifax because his condition worsened:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0517casualty0517.html

War injury claims life of soldier from Ariz.

Connie Cone Sexton
The Arizona Republic
May. 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Medical teams worked for two weeks to save Army Sgt. John Kyle Daggett, a 2005 high-school graduate from Phoenix, but the wounds he suffered from a rocket-propelled grenade were too great.

Daggett, who was injured May 1 in Baghdad, died Thursday.

He was aboard a medical-transport plane that left Iraq on May 5 and was headed for Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., but the plane was forced to land in Halifax, Nova Scotia, because of his condition, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Sat May-17-08 09:40 AM
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5. I thought the badly wounded were sent to Germany?

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leftchick

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Sat May-17-08 09:43 AM
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6. perhaps it is too full?

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babylonsister

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Sat May-17-08 09:46 AM
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7. So did I but maybe his injuries were too severe? I don't know, but

he's out of his misery now. I hope * has nonending nightmares, but I guess he'd need a conscience for that to happen.

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Sat May-17-08 09:51 AM
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8. You have to have a conscience to have nightmares over all the deaths he's caused

and he doesn't. He's a classic sociopath.

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Bigmack

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Sat May-17-08 09:39 AM
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4. Probably burns. Do we have....

any concept of how much he suffered during that two weeks?

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