an incision about mid chest and goes all the way around back and then all the way up the back. it is probably a 12-inch incision and with that you spread the ribs and put your hand on the lung itself and put pressure on it and with that the bleeding stops and once i was inside i saw that a large pulmonary artery and also a pulmonary vein had been lass rated. tying the vessels back together had to resect a small part of the lung damaged and then resected or take out the rib that had been shattered. >> the operation lasted two and a half hours. >> the next day, at the time it was lieutenant colonel petraeus basically looked me in the eye and said i'm ready to go home and i said you can't go home, no way. you just had an m-16 shoot you through the chest. hit major vessels. there is no way you can go home. >> he said at least send me back so i can be at a local hospital so i can be back with my soldiers. >> and what about the soldier that accidentally shot him. >> i read that some where when