Posted on Feb 12, 2015
What is your first reaction to the toughness this Soldier displayed?
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Daily Military News & Combat Footage at FUNKER530.com - http://vid.io/xGB While on route in Eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. Army convoy gets attacked. This soldi...
Watch from a first person's view as a US Army machine gunner's turret takes 2 hits by RPGs during a mounted convoy in eastern Afghanistan. Although dazed by the impact, he responds in the way that we would all aspire for: he continues mission (Charlie Mike) because he is loyal to the mission and to his brothers and sisters more than his own personal safety. If this doesn't fire you up, please check your pulse.
** Question for RP members: What is your first reaction to the toughness this Soldier displayed? **
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Note: this is a raw first person video that may conjure up memories for some RP members.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThFZ-TX2bc8
** Question for RP members: What is your first reaction to the toughness this Soldier displayed? **
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Note: this is a raw first person video that may conjure up memories for some RP members.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThFZ-TX2bc8
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Posted 11 y ago
Responses: 78
Whoah, this thread has been viewed 235,381 times over the past 7 days. I've gotta be trending right now. *Drops the mic*
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I am gonna take some flak for this, but the way you all are raving, I'm wondering if I'm Captain America. I took a lot, a lot worse than this in RVN and the whole countryside was torn a new one almost immediately. No return fire to speak of and unmanned guns and fire burning on the deck, no sister guns providing cover fire. I'd have expected more from my guys. Granted, it sounds like he had his bell rung good and I wasn't there...a big factor in this, we all deal with our own shit our own way. Glad there were no fatalities.
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Good man. I admire him. I was a gunner in Iraq in 05, there's a strong sense of duty to protect your truck and overall your convoy. presuming of course that you aren't a SB.
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way to cowboy up there troop beret off to you son!!!!!! Now that is ESPRIT DE CORPS
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He responds as any well trained Soldier would respond. The response was a bit tame if Marine, however ;)
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It appears to me that this is a training video in a simulator. The direction of sunshine and the flow of shadows is very different from the turret view and what the landscape itself shows. When the turret turns the lighting and shadow barely changes at all, if at all.
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SPC Arron Patton
A simulator? Come on now. When was the last time you ever saw a military simulator with graphics that didn't resemble that of a first generation Nintendo? You can see debris fall inside the turret and the antenna shake violently. Lets not downplay the scenario and give credit where credit is due. We all know damn well that not every soldier in the fight would have kept their cool like this guy does.
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