✈️ @BlueYellowUSA Courier fundraiser!✈️ We're sending a courier with 20 bags of urgently needed supplies to Ukraine! 🎯 $5,800 total 👉 $1,500 flight ticket 👉 $3,600 (~$180 per bag for 20 bags) 👉 $700 fuel/truck/personnel into Ukraine 🎟️ $5, please write "courier" in the memo 📷 Screenshot receipt below 🥇 Black Cats Medical Group flag, "Unbreakable" magnet, patch 🥈 Hand painted shell candle, sticker 🥉 Limited edition card deck, patch 💰 All donations- your fella becomes a courier Urgently needed or highly specialized items (tourniquets, chest seals, medications, ventilators, humanitarian drones, and more) will fly with a courier to make sure everything gets to where it needs to go, as quickly as possible. This isn't cheap but it's an unfortunate necessity. @BlueYellowUSA is a 501(c)3 organization. All American donations are tax-deductible. 💰foblueyellowukraineusa.org/d… 💳blueyellowusa.securepayments… ☕buymeacoffee.com/blueyellowv 🅿️🅿️paypal.com/paypalme/blueyell…

I'm absolutely floored by the generosity of @PolpoGelato's offer. Please see my pinned tweet for more details but @BlueYellowUSA needs to fund a courier to bring 20 bags of tacmeds, FPV drones (humanitarian), IV pumps, ultrasounds, and other equipment and supplies to 🇺🇦. "I'd like to underscore how important this is to me: for a donation of $1000, I will host the donor in my oceanfront home for 5 nights. Homecooked meals, own view bedroom, Stevie, fall asleep to the roar of the ocean. Fly into Seattle and I'll pick you up." 💥 This fundraiser is URGENT 💥 xitter.cf/CloudyWithBees/status/…

Thank you ty everyone who donated to the CAT 7 and chest seal fundraiser as well as boosted, 💙💛, RT, and QT!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Sorry for the draw delay. Items are being ordered from NAR and we'll post the order receipt as soon as we have it. We're still trying to clarify with some donors so if you received an email/DM from myself or Blue Yellow, please respond ASAP! 🫂 🥁.... 🥇 @JohnLiniger -Limited edition t-shirt, patch, hand-painted shell by 🇺🇦 artist @crimson__august 🥈 @MidniteSnack42-Explosive hazard recognition card deck, two patches 🥉 @foglark1- Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine postcard, two patches Congratulations to the lucky winners and a big, heartfelt thanks to all of the people who contributed to make this happen! 🫂

On a recent medevac (not the one shown in this picture), we were called to evacuate two of our infantry men with shrapnel injuries. It had been a difficult mission. The zero line is a brutal place. After I established IV access in one of our guys and my brother in arms placed it in the other casualty while we had a few safe-ish minutes to do so, we administered necessary medications and it was time to drive to the nearest next level of care. I immediately noticed the demeanor of one of our guys, the thousand yard stare. The one I've seen in the eyes of my casualties many times before. I asked him if we was ok. I know the answer but he snapped of his stare just for a moment to say "Yeah. Yeah I'm ok." I believe he was trying to reassure himself more than me. After a few seconds, he'd be gone again. Somewhere far away in the dark spaces of his memories. It reminded me of another time at the stabilization point where one of our casualties also had the same stare and demeanor. He would answer questions and be gone again. He was the only survivor of his unit. For the duration of our ride I ask the same question at least a few more times just to connect him back to the world for a moment. This young man had to watch his friend die of a catastrophic injury from an FPV drone that could not be fixed where they were. Traumatic memories like this are unimaginably painful. I really mean it when I say the zero line is a brutal place. It's not some day trip you go to and come back from like its no big deal. You can't drive all the way to the zero line, the drones will destroy your vehicles. So you must walk into hell. A piece of them dies in that place. Especially when they have to watch their brothers die and there is nothing they can do to save them. War is hell. Don't let anyone tell you any different.