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06-25-2009, 11:35 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: MS
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| Soldier impaled by RPG A frick'in amazing video and did this make it on ANY of the networks?not that I have seen.The vid has actual video of the RPG being removed - Video of Live RPG removed from soldier - Military Times Video
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06-25-2009, 11:44 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Was this on the Military Channel? I saw a similar incident in which the army doctors saved the soldiers life.
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06-26-2009, 12:43 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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06-26-2009, 08:35 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| strewth! 
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06-26-2009, 12:01 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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 | There was a show on this. I remember another incident a US soldier was stabbed in the head and didn't even know it. It was a ten inch long knife. It was on the same show on the MIlitary Channel |
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06-26-2009, 12:05 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Dang. That guy's got one over-worked guardian angel!
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06-26-2009, 12:23 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| Lucky fella to have survived that, nice to get some good news from that **** hole for a change. Last one I remember anything like that was in the newspapers overhere during Vietnam a guy got hit with a mortar round in the chest and survived having it removed. |
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06-26-2009, 01:06 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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 | Lucky, lucky guy!
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06-26-2009, 01:26 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Ouch, he's very lucky the head broke off.
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06-26-2009, 02:30 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Look at it this way, too....he's an instant winner for any machismo "hey check out my scar" contests!  (seriously, though.....  to the man!)
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06-26-2009, 05:04 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: MS
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| The one thing I gather from watching the video was the Professionalism of all involved and the intelligence if one may say of all who spoke or what appeared to be thereof.I bring this up for one senator last summer said people who joined the Military did it because they could not make it in college.
__________________ There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload". A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go. "We don't want war. Nor will we tolerate slavery." "A free man would rather die on his feet than live on his knees." |
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06-26-2009, 06:26 PM
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06-26-2009, 07:56 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Quote:
Moron.
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06-28-2009, 12:03 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Great news that he's alive. It has to be some sort of miracle.
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06-28-2009, 12:15 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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| It does really suck, you never hear about the great things soldiers do.
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