Wounded FOX News Cameraman Rescues Wounded Marine From Their Burning, Blown-Up Humvee - With Video
FOX News cameraman Chris Jackson was injured Sunday when an IED struck an armored Humvee convoy in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Jackson helped rescue an injured Marine from the burning vehicle.
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A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb Sunday night in the Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold.
Two U.S. Marines were badly injured when the improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy. Though FOX News cameraman Chris Jackson was injured in the blast, he went back to the burning vehicle to rescue one of the Marines.
“The cabin was on fire and I jumped out,” said Jackson in a report filed immediately following the attack. “I went, grabbed the sergeant out of the shotgun seat, pulled him out.”
While Jackson and the Marines assisted the injured sergeant, the heat inside the burning vehicle began to fire off the ammunition inside it.
“We checked him over; his leg was injured. We then carried him away behind a second armored Humvee because the ammunition from the first armored Humvee was cooking off and firing in all directions.”
Helmand province, the site of the IED blast, is a hotbed of insurgent activity and the largest opium poppy growing area in the world.
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit moved into the province’s capital of Garmser in April to drive out the Taliban, and military officials say more than 400 insurgents have been killed so far in the campaign.
FOX News cameraman Chris Jackson stand with fixer Ali al Sayed on assignment in Beirut. Jackson was injured Sunday by an IED blast in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
“For most of my Marines — about 25 out of the 45 — this is their second or third deployment, and it’s not their first IED strike, so we’re pretty adept at handling them at this point,” said Lt. John Branson, commander of the platoon that was struck by the IED. “But they can always get one over on us every once in a while.”
Jackson, 35, a longtime freelancer for FOX News, has been with the Jerusalem bureau since 2007. He is traveling in Afghanistan with Oliver North, a FOX News correspondent and retired Marine lieutenant colonel.
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I guess the NYT’s photographers or the MSM (i.e. MSNBC, CNN)camera “people” would have just stood there and taken pictures and rolled video footage in the interest ‘neutral’ observation and reporting.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:08 amI LOVE how the young Lt. thinks of his wounded guy’s families first, and then sends his love to his own.
I love our troops!
BTW … Did I detect a bit of ‘Canuck’ in FNC’s Chris Jackson’s voice? No mistaking a Canadian when they say the word “out” …
Good job, Chris! You’re a good man.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:23 amOr they would have ran away screaming like little girls and saying it was President Bush’s Fault!!!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:23 amORRRRR … “We’re losing in A-stan!”
August 4th, 2008 at 9:32 amYou hit the nail on the head. Exactly what I was going to say. Lucky it was a Fox guy instead of a CBS guy. But then again, the Marine’s comrades would have picked up the slack.
Remember when Bob Woodruff was messed up in Iraq? The media slobbered all over him and he didn’t even save anyone’s bacon (Canadian or not).
Let’s see how the MSM treats Chris Jackson. The left-wing nuts will excoriate him as a right-wing war mongering Faux News Fascist.
He’s a hero.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:43 amOr praising the courage of the oppressed Taliban
August 4th, 2008 at 9:47 amThey’d have probably shot the soldiers and say later that they were either “putting them out of their misery” or that “they were doing America a favor by killing Bush’s terrorists”
But then again, the MSM DOES support Obama’s comment that the Troop Surge didn’t do any good in Iraq, so I guess the media isn’t too concerned with facts, just whatever makes a good story [which is the only reason Obama’s still in this race]
August 4th, 2008 at 9:58 am
August 4th, 2008 at 10:09 amUSNA1985
I guess the NYT’s photographers or the MSM (i.e. MSNBC, CNN)camera “people” would have just stood there and taken pictures and rolled video footage in the interest ‘neutral’ observation and reporting.
Well, not exactly! The NYT would have been with the Insugents watching and filming the IED blow for the Enemy side.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:34 amthat took some pretty incredible courage on his part.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:40 amThe spirit of Ernie Pyle lives on.
Shame the rest of the media aren’t like him.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:50 amI doubt Lara Logan (aka the “Womb Raider”) would pull off such a heroic feat.
And the leftists wonder why FNC has a better rep within the U.S. Military (despite Geraldo)?
August 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pmand Colmes
Very impressive. Hats off to him!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pmNo, because THEN she wouldn’t be able to say, “I’ve seen dead American [soldiers] …”
August 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pmGo chris jackson and USMC
August 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
August 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pmThat is what you call real “American Media” the normal so called “American Media” i.e. CBS, NBC, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC had they been on location would have been to busy screaming at the camera man to get a good shot of the wounded screaming soldier to help.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm__________________________________________
Absolutely fuckn’ right!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:04 pmclass acts, the lot of them.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pmthank you Marines!