Jules Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Incredible stuff. What courage and how incredibly large and humongous big his balls of steel must be. This guy deserves a medal. During Intense Gunfight in Afghanistan, US Soldier Intentionally Exposes His Position to Draw Fire Away from Imperiled Squad [video=youtube;rLHU-_OhT8g] An unnamed US soldier and his squad were engaged in intel gathering and reconnaissance near a village in Afghanistan's ultra-violent Kunar Province when they suddenly came under heavy machine gun fire from Taliban insurgents. With the rest of his squad "pinned down," the soldier decided to step out into the open "to draw fire so my squad could get to safety." I got a hit a total of 4 times. My helmet cam died and i made it down the mountain on my own. I was also hit in the side of my helmet and my eye pro was shot off of my face. A round struck the tube by my hand of the 203 grenade launcher which knocked it out of my hands. When I picked the rifle back up it was still functional but the grenade launcher tube had a nice sized 7.62 cal bullet hole in it and was rendered useless. Happily, no bullets managed to penetrate his body armor and he suffered no permanent injuries. Source: http://gawker.com/5946720/during-intense-gunfight-in-afghanistan-us-soldier-intentionally-exposes-his-position-to-draw-fire-away-from-imperiled-squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Holy fucking christ that video is insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphinity 2.0 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Holy fucking shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ba Ba Bluey Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 How did he not use profanity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Respecttheblue Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 And there are quite a lot more like him who've done similar. It's humbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Greatest military in the world and this is one of the reasons why. Tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Incredible. Greatest military in the world and this is one of the reasons why. Tremendous. The $663.84B military budget [2010] certainly doesn't hurt either. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Scags Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Fuckin awesome!! Had the body armor that saved him, but he's lucky because usually these Taliban guys are a bad shots, he probably thought they'd miss anyway.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddious Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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