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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Seagoon on August 17, 2005, 12:57:21 PM
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Hi Guys,
A while back a Jihadist video was posted showing a soldier being shot, but then getting up and taking cover behind his Humvee. That soldier was interviewed this morning at Camp Liberty on the Today Show. Apparently the Ceramic "Rifle Plate" insert in his body armor was what stopped the round.
Video of Camp Liberty Interview (http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?t=1&p=Source_Today%20Show&i=e2df9850-0ebb-4092-bdda-6a4ccdfc5c1b&rf=)
(Sorry about the irritating commercial in the beginning)
- SEAGOON
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WOW great find Seagoon. :aok
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Good stuff there, Seagoon, thanks. Nice to hear from those actually there instead of an airconditioned office accross the ocean from the actual country
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Hoooaah Go capt!
3rdID
Ft.Stewart, I went to their NCO training camp for bootcamp..
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That was one hellova interview.
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is there any way to watch this without downloading their app?
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There is no app. Its a windows media player stream with a few active X calls.
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The cool thing about that clip to me was him getting up and returning fire instinctivly. Image the casualty rates without that armour. That guy doesnt even get a purple heart for a scratch and he would have been dead for sure.
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Originally posted by Pongo
The cool thing about that clip to me was him getting up and returning fire instinctivly.
I didn't see him return fire, but just look at the direction to see if theres anything to shoot and then covered.
It's funny how the guy behind the camera was continously chanting allahu akbar after the shot, even after seeing the soldier get up and get behind the vehicle. :rolleyes:
Weird logic too... someone survives a surprising hit, shouldn't that be a message from Allah, indicating they're doing something wrong?
Stupid idiots..
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Originally posted by Fishu
I didn't see him return fire, but just look at the direction to see if theres anything to shoot and then covered.
It's funny how the guy behind the camera was continously chanting allahu akbar after the shot, even after seeing the soldier get up and get behind the vehicle. :rolleyes:
Weird logic too... someone survives a surprising hit, shouldn't that be a message from Allah, indicating they're doing something wrong?
Stupid idiots..
Insurgents: Allah Akbar, Allah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah AkbarAllah Akbar
Allah: Insurgents, you are screwd and are about to be OWNED. curtousy of the US Army. I sudgest next time you shoot a target and he gets right back up ready to kill you, you find a new profesion.
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or better armour.
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I'm very proud and humbled by all of our troops...I hope the US population does not buy into the load of crap better known as the mainstream media.
Salute to the US Armed Forces and the men and women of other nations supporting the effort in Iraq and Afganistan!!!
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I sure wish I could find the REST of that video... The guy too that shot and got right back up ready to fight. That takes real courage, the kind that makes someone keep going and making the right decisions to LIVE, even though they're scared half out of their mind.
That video is exactly why the dumbing-down of the USAF basic training just sickens me. I'm not sure how it is right now, but for a few years the USAF was flat-out babying the recruits out of paranoia that a guy with an undiagnosed heart defect might die on the morning run or something. If the first time that dude had been really stressed was there in Iraq instead of in boot camp, would he have been able to get up, or would he have remained on the ground just waiting for the follow-up shot, wondering why the bad people were mean to him?
I can't count the number of times someone in my Academy class passed out from fatigue or stress during our first year. I managed to take a knee the one time I stopped breathing at the end of a grueling physical/mental training day when my throat just spasmed shut so I couldn't breath for a short time, but plenty of others either faceplanted or had to be assisted until they recovered. Some of those guys and girls who lived through that level of training are now amazingly cool under pressure in life or death situations, and I'm glad my instructors were allowed to impose that kind of stress on us back then so we are better able to deal with it now.
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Great clip
Thanks!