"What are the odds?": Mountain biker's life saved by off-duty doctor who happened to come along on the trail
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-- This story first appeared on CBS Minnesota.
It's a story of survival that even the people who lived it can barely comprehend.
A Twin Cities man survived a brutal mountain biking accident, thanks to a risky medical move by a highly-skilled stranger.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.