How was the recovery? When I was hit, it was at night driving a 923 and passing another 923 but it was a tool truck and from 4th ID. This was near the burn pit. Tool truck floored it and after losing my 7 to it, I said eff it and turned on my lights from BO drive.
It wasn't until after the stars went away and my retarded TC trying to apply pressure to my neck and I was swatting her away from me that I had realized something wasn't quite right.
Anyway, that was strike two on why no one would ride with me anymore, not even on a shoppette or a Dfac run no matter how desperate they were. First strike was in BIAP, 2003 in JUN. Me and an attachment to our company had to dump trash at the burn pit at night, heard the thumps from the distance and when the guys in the 109's pulling security from 1AD said find cover, we both dived into the swill. Our 998 got peppered but we were good.
Third strike was after I was back, my section SGT and I went to the SSA and a round struck us as we were using a route by the fence line close to west side of Balad. One green tracer over the windshield, the second we knew of and hit, passed underneath and knocked out our passenger side front halfshaft.
Even back in Germany after redeployment, nobody would ride with me if they could avoid doing so, it was nice.