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PLAYING GAMES, PREPARING FOR WAR
December 12, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:

By Phil Sheridan
Phildelphia Inquirer

When the bomb went off under his vehicle during a re-supply mission in Afghanistan, Army Capt. Alton McCallum found himself with a shattered right leg amid an oddly familiar scene.

The brave and selfless medics who came to his aid were as efficient and skilled as the athletic trainers and physicians who rushed to help him and his teamma . . .

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