Hit by a Suicide Bomber
Heroes Remember - Canadian Armed forces
Hit by a Suicide Bomber
Transcript
We were about nine days from coming
home so we were at the end of the tour and
we were driving to our last mayor meeting
within that district that we were patrolling and
we were going down, it was called Green Route,
it was a few kilometres from the camp
where we stayed. And we slowed down to
take this bump where a bus stop was,
a big bump in the road and a suicide bomber
came out of the crowd, we didn’t know.
He just had his hands in his pocket and
detonated about four feet from the right side
of my jeep instantly killing my signaller,
Corporal Jamie Murphy who was in the back
seat on rear security and wounding the three
other people that were in the vehicle.
But as I said before we travel in two’s
so my boss at the time, my officer commanding
was in the first vehicle and they stopped and
we took care of the situation at that time.
But I sustained wounds to the right
side of my body. Very fortunate I wasn’t
sitting a centimetre to the right or I wouldn’t
be doing this interview here today.
And I lost vision in my right eye and
shrapnel wounds through my neck,
my shoulder, my leg, my knee and then
my lower leg were the major ones.
But I remained conscious through the
event and we instantly kind of secured
the area and medevacked everybody
out back to the camp. From there I was
flown by helicopter to the next rural hospital
which was north end Kabul in the city
where they kind of looked at me and
decide what they want to do and when they
decided they needed to stabilize the shrapnel
that was in my eye and make sure
I didn’t have any brain damage they flew me
to Germany to Bon University where I
underwent many surgeries because I had
different, I had head trauma, I had eye,
I had shrapnel all through my body so I went
through many surgeries there and they flew
my parents over which was really nice so
I could be reunited with my family.
But when I was in Germany,
I never slept a wink. The hospital I was in
was Bon University which is I guess
one of the best in the world for what they
needed to do but they didn’t believe in
private rooms so I was in a room with
head trauma, other head trauma patients
so it was loud. Like it was loud.
I didn’t sleep much but when they flew me
home when I got into Ottawa and they
rolled in the TV and put on a hockey game
for me I had a good night sleep that night.
But I went through more operations
in Ottawa and they were ongoing
for the next few years back in Canada.
Description
While on duty, Major Feyko provides details of the attack where he and his fellow comrades were injured and the personal impact of the wounds he incurred and the care he received.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- September 29, 2017
- Duration:
- 3:12
- Person Interviewed:
- Jay Feyko
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Location/Theatre:
- Afghanistan
- Battle/Campaign:
- Afghanistan
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment
- Rank:
- Platoon Commander
- Date modified: