With skill and prayers, medic fights to save a comrade in Iraq ...
Oct 2, 2006 · Kirby, 22, is a corpsman, the trauma medic who is assigned to the 2nd Mobile Assault Platoon of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. Everyone calls him Doc. He had just finished...
A Lone Bullet’s Long Toll - The New York Times
Apr 25, 2016 · Almost 10 years after he was shot through the mouth, Kirby, a veteran of the Iraq War, was having his face overhauled again, the latest stop on what will be a lifelong tour of the damage a...
Medic shot by sniper was featured in story on soldier shot in Iraq
Dec 29, 2006 · Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin E. Kirby, a U.S. Navy corpsman whose efforts to save a wounded Marine in Iraq were covered in an article published Nov. 2 in The New York Times, was...
Lives Entwined by War Enter a Long, Arduous Chapter: Recovery
Feb 25, 2007 · Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby, a Navy corpsman whose efforts to save a wounded marine in Iraq and his own wounding by a sniper on Christmas were covered by The New York...
Tending a Fallen Marine, With Skill, Prayer and Fury
Nov 2, 2006 · Petty Officer Kirby, 22, is a Navy corpsman, the trauma medic assigned to Second Mobile Assault Platoon of Weapons Company, Second Battalion, Eighth Marines. Everyone calls him Doc. He had...
One More Bullet - Reading The Pictures
Navy medic Dustin E. Kirby, whose bloodied hand was the subject of a November 3 BAGnewsNotes posting holding a sniper’s bullet in Karma, Iraq, was wounded himself earlier this week. He was shot in the left side of his face, also by a …
A Pacifist Chaplain’s Soul-Searching Tour of War - The New York …
May 10, 2010 · The pacifist chaplain never did get to talk with Doc Kirby, who was near death when he arrived. But the quiet vigil she stood as doctors rushed to save him — he survived, and his treatment...
'The Fighters' sees Iraq, Afghanistan wars through eyes of 'grunts'
Aug 14, 2018 · Of all the stories in this gripping and thought-provoking book, the saga of Dustin (Doc) Kirby, a Marine battlefield corpsman with two Purple Hearts, stands out. His trials are almost...
Team of surgeons volunteer to rebuild Iraq war vet's jaw ten years ...
Oct 25, 2016 · US Navy Corpsman Dusty Kirby was shot by a sniper in Iraq in 2006. (Screenshots from Fox5 video below) A US Navy Corpsman from Georgia whose teeth and jaw were decimated by a sniper’s bullet in Iraq is learning to smile again, thanks to some help from a plastic surgeon.
On The Bookshelf | Book reviews from Doc Kirby
May 20, 2011 · Almost ten years later, having just killed the mastermind behind the attacks, we are still in Afghanistan. In the meantime, we fought and won a war in Iraq, and our counterinsurgency theory worked well in Iraq.