Cat Assault

The job we do in EVAC is simple. We evacuate Soldiers to higher echelons of care. We keep a very detailed log of every Soldier that comes through us, and we post the days events on a white board in the office so everyone knows who, what, where and when evacs happened in case someone calls inquiring about their Soldier.

So when I walked into work last night and looked at the white board, I was shocked when this is what I saw:

Cat Head? Erm?

Turns out that adorable Combat Stress Kitty I recently blogged about should have been seen as a patient at Combat Stress, not just a mascot! She totally flipped her shit yesterday and attacked a Soldier. I wasn't there, but first hand accounts say she launched out of a garbage can at a passing Soldier. And when I say "launched", I mean torpedoed out of a garbage can head first, legs back, with destiny in mind. She attacked, scratched and bit the Soldier, he in turn dropped the food he was carrying and ran. She stopped and ate the food.

Well, Combat Stress Kitty was easily caught (because she's generally very friendly) and someone killed her and cut off her head. I'm glossing over the details of her demise because I'd really rather not know much about it. Long story short, the cat's head needed to go to the hospital in Balad, Iraq to have it's brains tested to see if she had rabies. The only way to get biological waste transported is to call in a medevac helicopter to pick it up and take it there.

So the cat's head was treated like a patient. It was logged and transported like anyone else we take care of. I'm not really sure why it was #17. Were there 16 other cat heads transported earlier?

I was really sad because I had fond memories of Combat Stress Kitty. But if she was in the habit of jumping people for their dinners, it's probably best she was removed from the situation. Rest in Peace, Combat Stress Kitty. You will be missed (but not by the guy you assaulted).