Main reason why we will win the War on Terrorism? Our soldiers are bionic.
Every now and then, when he flexes the muscles in his forearm and picks up something such as a fork or a car key, Army Sgt. Matt DeWitt thinks he is using his own arm again.
"You still feel, for a second, like you have a hand," DeWitt said in an interview at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
It was, for DeWitt, an amazing revelation, given that he lost both his arms below the elbow three months ago when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade as he manned a machine gun atop an armored Humvee in Iraq.
DeWitt, 26, has been experiencing this sensation as he learns to use two state-of-the-art prosthetics that sense electrical impulses from muscles in his forearms -- the same muscles he once used to move his real hands and wrists -- and transmit them to microprocessors that power motors in his new mechanical wrists and hands.
These devices are known as "myoelectric" arms -- myo is the Greek word for muscle --but a better and more descriptive term might just be "bionic."
Cry out to your false God all you wish to, you Islamic nuts. When Colonel Steve Austin comes for you, he won't help.
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