daylia, tell your son that shooting himself in the foot won't necessarily work. In 1966 I was working in the OR at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego when we got a Marine from Camp Pendelton with a bullet wound to his foot. He said he got it while fast drawing from a shoulder holster with a.25 cal semi-auto pistol. We tried to recreate the incident and there was no way he could have hit his foot unless he aimed directly at it.

Turns out his outfit was leaving for 'Nam the next day. The bullet had missed the bones so there was only soft tissue damage.We patched him up and sent him back to Pendelton marked as fit for regular duty.

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