Re: [MV] FELLOW LISTEE-MAJOR RICE UPDATE

From: Robert Barber (rbarber41@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 16:08:37 PDT


  Is there a snail or e-mail address we can communicate with him ???

  i'm sure he would love to have some of us bug his butt
  to say hello and wish him a better day ..

                               Bob B

>From: "Dean L. Kellogg, Jr" <kelloggd@uthscsa.edu>
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: [MV] FELLOW LISTEE-MAJOR RICE UPDATE
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:23:56 -0500
>
>Hi Listees,
>
>Some of you may know Jim Rice as a member of this list. I got to know him
>through the list and through MV activities here in San Antonio. I last saw
>him on 5/28/01 when I took my GPW to display at the PH movie permier. Jim
>had his GPW there too....as some may know, the following week he had an
>accident in France. Here is a copy of an article that appeared in the San
>Antonio paper over the weekend about the accident:
>
>
>A San Antonio Army Parachutist participating in a D-Day re-enactment last
>weekend in France was seriously injured when he jumped from 1,000 feet and
>his primary and backup chutes failed
>Maj. Jim Rice, who was on leave from his post at Fort Sam Houston broke
>bones in both his legs and back, but avoided fatal injuries from a fall
>into an empty field in Normandy, Fort Sam spokesman Phil Reidinger said.
>"The main chute didn't deploy and the reserve only partially deployed,"
>Reidinger said. "He knew what he was doing, though. He executed a
>parachute landing so that his legs took the full brunt of the impact."
>"He's a lucky guy," Reidinger added.
>Rice, who teaches military tactics to junior officers at Fort Sam, was on
>leave and participating alongside members of the 82nd Airborne on Sunday
>when the accident happened, Reidinger said.
>Medics found Rice in an empty field near the drop zone, and he was taken to
>a nearby hospital.
>He is currently at an Army medical center in Germany, where his condition
>was unavailable.
>However, Army officials expect Rice to be transferred to Brooke Army
>Medical Center at Fort Sam within the next two weeks, pending doctor
>approval.
>His wife, Stephanie, a local schoolteacher, was traveling to Germany to be
>with her husband and could not be reached for comment.
>"He's speaking, he's coherent and cognizant," said Rice's friend David
>Talley of San Antonio.
>Rice, who is in his 30s and is a graduate of West Point, transferred to San
>Antonio about a year ago.
>Before living here, he was stationed at a base in Oklahoma and also served
>time in Germany, Talley said.
>
>
>I sure hope this comes out well!
>
>dean
>
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>Dean L. Kellogg, Jr., MD, PhD
>Department of Medicine
>The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
>7703 Floyd Curl Drive
>San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
>(210) 617-5311 FAX (210) 617-5312 e-mail:kelloggd@uthscsa.edu
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