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Run 10 miles, remove bullet

Aug-29-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By Chad Swiatecki

Dr. Donald Reed's Crim story is hard to beat.

While nearly 7,000 runners in downtown Flint relaxed in a festival atmosphere after their 10-mile runs, Reed followed his run by removing a bullet from an injured soldier.

Reed, of Mt. Morris, is a battlefield trauma surgeon with the Army Reserves in Mosul, Iraq. He and a few comrades held their own quasi-Crim at the same time the race unfolded in Flint.

After finishing the trek in 2 hours, 20 minutes - and in 100 degree heat that almost made him give up - Reed, assigned to the 67th Combat Support Hospital, saw four military vehicles speeding by.

"I hopped on a bus to follow them, and it turns out they were bringing in a young gunner who had just been shot by an insurgent," Reed said by e-mail Saturday. "He should make a complete recovery. I told him his 'guardian angel' was watching out for him."

Another of the surrogate Crimmers, Maj. Will Cordero, works as an operating room nurse and assisted Reed in surgery.It was Reed's idea this week to bring a touch of home to the desert by running with three fellow soldiers. He e-mailed Crim officials, who waived the $30 registration fee and said they will send the soldiers race T-shirts and medals.


Comments For " Run 10 miles, remove bullet":

Thank you for all of us.
Keep saving them doc.
And please keep running!
We need you!

Posted by: dorothy | September 2, 2004 4:23 AM

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