82nd Airborne COMBAT MEDIC And PARALYMPIAN | Kelly Elmlinger

Amazing woman! Love to hear her speak.

Karina was an absolute sweetheart and very musically talented.

TY for all that you have endured and bless you in your future years!!

❤️🙏🏼

Dear God, she said Fort Bragg. I’m surprised this video hasn’t been demonized. Thank you so much for your service. All veterans have a special place in my heart.

I wouldn't be alive without medics. God bless you all.

What an extraordinary woman.

She has such a tender heart and she is so courageous.

Thank you Kelly, from 1 vet to another

Now imagine a similar story told by one of the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by the US military…

Navy Vet here. 99-09 Went to fleet week in may of 2001 on the Kennedy! I’ll never forget that. It will be with me the rest of my life. Thanks for your service

Lmao she looks like a cop. Tfys

She’s so smart and well spoken

When she said she was a Tar Heel my heart went ❤❤❤❤❤ just when I thought I couldn’t like this lady more

Thank you for your service Kelly your true hero

God bless all our troops. Thank each & everyone of you . 😊

my dad was sent to Iraq twice in 2003 and 2005 in support of OIF I/II and once more to Afghanistan in 2009 in support of OEF

War sux😭. But it has to be done unfortunately. Especially when terrorists are involved. Prayers for all.

Hey is that the dude from soft white underbelly? Sounds like his voice

True hero! Thank you!

Thank you for all that you, and everyone else, did. I don’t know if you are still in the service, but, again, so thankful for you. God bless you!!!

Imagine a military that doesn't send its people to die for imperialist bullshit

Gratitude for helping those soldiers who put it all on the line and those that gave the last full measure! Heroes who save/serve and recover heroes

Thank for your service sorry for your wounds

Sounds like an amazing woman. Thanks for your service to our country

For what it's worth, thank you. You inspire me.

My boyfriend was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airbone! He was blown up 12 times and held his friend’s guts in to try and save their life! The stuff he has told me is unimaginable!! He lost pretty much his whole unit in Iraq! He still talks about his best friend Angel that died that day he lost everyone!

They doing it to us....who is they ???and if you just think for a sec....if they came to America wouldn't you have done it to them???Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did it have weapon of mass distruction...we all know why America went to war with iraq..after 9/11

GOD bless you❤❤❤

Thank you for your service. May God grant you strength and courage to continue on with life. You have seen so much tragedy in your young life. My son was in Desert Storm in the Army. God bless you.❤

Kelly you should feel proud of your self ! Heads up

I appreciate your taking the time to share your experience and represent the forgotten veterans (women). As a veteran of MSC, I totally understand what you are saying about not feeling you succeeded when the troops can’t be helped. I totally relate.

The short pissed me off but clicked the long form content and now I understand better

You got it sister

So much pain in her eyes

Thank you, Airborne!

Army Sniper Harry Martinez just talked about a female medic in Ramadi '06 who dropped her gear to pull a wounded soldier out of a vehicle while being shot at. Wondered if this was her, but he said her name was "Jessie". There were some legit sisters-in-arms at the height of the war. EOD, route clearance, some MP's who got engaged while on patrol - one who got a Silver Star, another who was a turret gunner who was hit and kept firing

Jesus loves you

Thanks!

Thinking of you during this 2024 Veteran’s Day 🤍🫡

I just want to say thank you and God Bless You!

I'm a marine I went to Montford point North Carolina for motor transport school. There's also a navy medic school there for them to graduate. We had to go out in the bush and have to us some kind of a plastic wound that look like a wound they gave me a compound fracture on my leg , they had to carry us on stretcher to the Jeep

Thank u for showing a young person and a women. When we keep seeing old men share their stories (which are needed too) I makes war seem old and far away. It allows us not to acknowledge the wars of today, and cost on people today.

You are a powerful example of courage and integrity.
I served 34 years.
I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer yesterday. I needed to watch your story. TY

On 9/11 I left from Pope AFB (Ft. Bragg) to Dyess AFB and was instantly thrusted into Operation Noble Eagle. I was in Fayetteville to do jump training with the 82nd. I was a crew chief of a C-130H and I had just spent the day before doing JAAFT training, kicking Airborne out of the back of my aircraft. When I was through with Presidential support I was off to Afghanistan. I don’t remember the exact day I got there but I do remember spending thanksgiving in 2001 eating a chicken and salsa MRE in Kandahar. Without making her story about me, I just want to share that I was alongside her during that time. I could have possibly had her as a medic on some of these nightmares I experienced in my own combat career with the 763rd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. Our aircraft were the ride out and the ride home for a lot of people and I got a front row seat to watch Army medics hard at work. Her story hits really really close. I’m glad she made it home. America is in her debt

You re a great woman Kelly and thank you for all you did. God bless you!

Thank you for your service ❤