photo of the exit wound on the neck of soldier Andrew Ferguson Photo: MASONS

“A soldier who was shot through the neck by a sniper in Afghanistan has told how he escaped death by just three millimetres.”

”My first thought was that with the amount of blood coming out I’d had it – I thought I was going to die. There was blood all over the rest of the men. After a couple of seconds I knew I was still breathing and I thought I must be paralysed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7356049/Soldier-kept-giving-orders-after-bullet-shot-through-his-neck-missing-his-spine-by-3mm.html