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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AKcurly on November 28, 2004, 01:29:50 AM
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Chuck Yeager's grandson in Fallujah (Marine 3/5.) He tossed a grenade through a door, someone threw it back out, he threw it back in. Persistent sucker. :)
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/11/thanksgiving_in.html
curly
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Holey Crap! That's a good read. Thanks for the post curly
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The first is a Marine from 3/5. His name is Corporal Yeager (Chuck Yeager's grandson). As the Marines cleared and apartment building, they got to the top floor and the point man kicked in the door. As he did so, an enemy grenade and a burst of gunfire came out. The explosion and enemy fire took off the point man's leg. He was then immediately shot in the arm as he lay in the doorway. Corporal Yeager tossed a grenade in the room and ran into the doorway and into the enemy fire in order to pull his buddy back to cover. As he was dragging the wounded Marine to cover, his own grenade came back through the doorway. Without pausing, he reached down and threw the grenade back through the door while he heaved his buddy to safety. The grenade went off inside the room and Cpl Yeager threw another in. He immediately entered the room following the second explosion. He gunned down three enemy all within three feet of where he stood and then let fly a third grenade as he backed out of the room to complete the evacuation of the wounded Marine. You have to understand that a grenade goes off within 5 seconds of having the pin pulled. Marines usually let them "cook off" for a second or two before tossing them in. Therefore, this entire episode took place in less than 30 seconds...
Damn!
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Have any of you all read Yeager's autobiography? GOOD BOOK
If not I highly recommend reading it.
Tapakeg
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Originally posted by tapakeg
Have any of you all read Yeager's autobiography? GOOD BOOK
If not I highly recommend reading it.
Tapakeg
Sure. However, the best one of the American genre is "Thunderbolt" by Robert Johnson.
curly
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Great read
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Great read
Seconded!
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did he check to see if the guys he shot were wounded?
lazs
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Great story, definition of courage.
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WTG YEAGER!
The pansies behind their monitor on this BBS should learn from this guy.
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Originally posted by Maniac
WTG YEAGER!
The pansies behind their monitor on this BBS should learn from this guy.
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Biggest pansie here.
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Awesome.... gave me chills.
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What we need are Helmet Cams on our soldiers so we can catch them violating the Geneva Convention....the only way Cpl. Yeager could have taken out three bad guys like that is if he cheated.
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Dunno bout the rest of you guys but it looks to me like Cpl Yeager should be in line for a bronze star at the very least
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Originally posted by Airhead
What we need are Helmet Cams on our soldiers so we can catch them violating the Geneva Convention....the only way Cpl. Yeager could have taken out three bad guys like that is if he cheated.
ya man....that sounds alot like spawn camping to me. Dam grenade fragging weanie.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
ya man....that sounds alot like spawn camping to me. Dam grenade fragging weanie.
no doubt he got it from his BNZ runstang weenie grandfather...
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Originally posted by Airhead
What we need are Helmet Cams on our soldiers so we can catch them violating the Geneva Convention....the only way Cpl. Yeager could have taken out three bad guys like that is if he cheated.
Ya, he must have used a aimbot or speed hack... what a loser!
:rolleyes:
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good thing no cameraman caught him spraying the room with gunfire and killing those wounded/surrendering freedom fighters.
lazs
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I thought the Geneva Convention had a rule saying you could only throw a live grenade one time?
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Originally posted by Airhead
I thought the Geneva Convention had a rule saying you could only throw a live grenade one time?
I've NEVER heard that in any of my training (not to say it's not true) If that is the case that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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Airhead, ya gut-hooked a Gunslinger. Hooks never touched flesh until they were deep in the bottom of his stomach. Even with the artificial sarcasm bait so obviously floating on the top of the water and right next to the boat, you boated him by merely setting the hook. Amazing.
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mmmmppph.....
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Originally posted by Steve
Airhead, ya gut-hooked a Gunslinger. Hooks never touched flesh until they were deep in the bottom of his stomach. Even with the artificial sarcasm bait so obviously floating on the top of the water and right next to the boat, you boated him by merely setting the hook. Amazing.
"flag on the play"
Nope I'm gonna have to call a challenge to this one. Airhead has said some pretty dumb things as of late so one would assume all together that he is in fact being completly honest here. :cool:
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Gunslinger, nothing to be ashamed of....Airhead is a very skilled troll...probably the best.
That being said, he also a dummy head.
I laughed at his comment though, was pretty funny.
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Originally posted by NUKE
Gunslinger, nothing to be ashamed of....Airhead is a very skilled troll...probably the best.
That being said, he also a dummy head.
I laughed at his comment though, was pretty funny.
Yeah, I thought it was just stupid enough to be funny...but Gunslinger actually considering for a second that it might be true was funnier. :D
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Nah, youre still more funnierest.
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after the grenade went off the noble freedom fighters were probly wounded and trying to surrender. Isn't it agisnt the convention to shoot wounded?
lazs
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Lazs you shouldn't troll in the same waters as Airhead because he won't leave you anything...
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Originally posted by lazs2
after the grenade went off the noble freedom fighters were probly wounded and trying to surrender. Isn't it agisnt the convention to shoot wounded?
lazs
Only if there's a cameraman nearby. Otherwise, they're fair game. IMO, so are the cameramen...
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and I quote:
"God has a hard-on for Marines because we KILL everything we see"
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If that jarine would have cooked off his grenade he wouldn't have had to play hot potatoe with the bad guys in the first place ..... Brave I'll give him that.. I also give him a grade of D- for not cooking off his grenade.. (would have been F if he got blown up by his own grenade..)
wtf are they teaching these kids.. this is basic stuff...
DoctorYo
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Originally posted by DoctorYO
If that jarine would have cooked off his grenade he wouldn't have had to play hot potatoe with the bad guys in the first place ..... Brave I'll give him that.. I also give him a grade of D- for not cooking off his grenade.. (would have been F if he got blown up by his own grenade..)
wtf are they teaching these kids.. this is basic stuff...
DoctorYo
They teach us to cook it off, he must of been in the pit in the grenade class.
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The Marines are great and all but why didn't he become an aviator? If Chuck Yeager was my Granpa. I'd definitely be flying something with reheat.
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I also give him a grade of D- for not cooking off his grenade..
Maybe, just maybe, there was some fog of war involved here. His buddy had just been shot right in front of him, he was in a small house in a city full of hostiles. How many times have you been in that situation?
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Originally posted by AKcurly
Sure. However, the best one of the American genre is "Thunderbolt" by Robert Johnson.
curly
Both are great reads. I highly recommend them, along with .....ahhhgggg, it'll come to me...
Bob Hoover's aoutobio. Oh, and Clarence Anderson's autobio.
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Originally posted by Steve
Maybe, just maybe, there was some fog of war involved here. His buddy had just been shot right in front of him, he was in a small house in a city full of hostiles. How many times have you been in that situation?
Every Thanksgiving when we visit the in-laws.
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Originally posted by Airhead
Every Thanksgiving when we visit the in-laws.
:lol