Risk Management Magazine

Unless you’ve experienced spatial disorientation while flying an aircraft, it’s difficult to truly understand the feeling. Fortunately, I’m still here to talk about the night it happened to me.

The following morning, 12 other Soldiers were bitten by an unknown number of coyotes between the hours of 0100 and 0600. The Soldiers were either asleep, on guard duty in fighting positions or actively looking for the animals. Like the first victim, these Soldiers were transported to Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital for treatment and rabies vaccinations.

I yelled for Kirk to return while waving the dim flashlight in a vain attempt at warning oncoming drivers to slow down. Kirk decided against going across the road since the good Samaritan was already checking on the driver. Instead, Kirk began using the flashlight on his phone to also warn approaching vehicles to slow down.