sir yes sir oorah

no grrr😡😡

@@AeroBeII jhbnmgsz

🎉❤

sir yes sir

underrated comment lmao

It's a proper noun

Classic.

Dovahkin!

No lollygagging

Did he survived ?

@@Tutisclutis Oh, sorry. Yes, he did. He was from Brookfield in the greater Chicago area. Amazing story.

wow thats nuts, the only time iv heard of unexploded ordinence in someone before now was a mexican woman who got a grenade launcher shell embedded in her torso, they evacted the whole hospital, only 2 surgeons and one explosives expert stayed behind incase of detonation, seems she survived

​@@EpicRenegade777The Infographics Show had covered that very same incident you just mentioned a few years ago in their own video with interesting results.

Oh wow

You mean God came down from heaven and stopped the RPG?

@@HRHooChicken there are numerous miracles. Why would God limit himself?

@@mikemodels928 Not a film fan huh

The pressure of the projectile probably temporarily blocked off his femoral artery, if anyone tried to pull it out before a tourniquet was applied, he probably would have bled out within minutes.

​@@selurxelpirt nice one

A great example of why I fear the idea of robots using AI for combat or policing.

most would be lucky to dodged stray shrapnel, either someone up there likes him or he has plot armor

@@wilsonweiseng6485 Maybe both lol 😂

He’s got a helluva story to tell at the bar. A welcome change from Boot camp stories (which aren’t cool).

@@TemmieContingenC true lol

He was lucky because it was a factory mistake in the past that dint made the rpg armet but men this afganistan insurgents were rich if they blow up 1 soldier at a time

explosive bullets dont have exactly high blast radius, also theyre not meant to kill people necessarily but to bust through armor, so much so many explosive cartridges dont detonate in contact with flesh because they will just pierce right through and detonate on whathever hard surface they hit afterwards, because theyre meant to bore a piece of the armor then explode to maximize damage done to it.

​@unkindled6410 explosive ammo back in the 40's helped mark target

That doesn't make any sense......

@@PANZERFAUST90 Simo DID get shot by an infantryman that used an explosive round fired from a rifle which severely injured him but thankfully was evacuated. After that he did did get his jaw sorta fixed, might look a little off since it ripped his jawbone along with knocking out a couple of his teeth but he did live out his life until he passed in the 2000s

@@SlyCooper1920 Yeah, I know all that.

On that distance it wouldnt be thst fast, but if rpg speeded up a little bit yeah probably would send him flying

Hey Devil Doc, often it protocol is broken to save those in the greatest need. Take care. -Former Navy Corpsman and Retired Army Medic

Choi who was your instructor?

So they needed a little “encouragement” to do the right thing then and remember this is for a brother marine. Gotcha.

Finally someone that knows the real story to a point, the staff Sgt did draw his weapon to get the crew to take him, they did do the vote, I give pilots the credit, they were trying to tell crew to hurry up and get him on. And our staff Sgt lead our platoon for rest of deployment was never in trouble for it

"It's a Dud?"

Maybe not exactly improper use, but I figured it must've been a panic shot because there's no way how I can see someone try and blow a man's leg off with a rocket. Personal guess was that he was going for a direct shot on the ground to disorient the Marines or the more unlikely option was to have the RPG bounce off the ground and blow up some distance back.

“The enemy” while we were the invading force in *their* homeland.

perhaps he was withing the arming distance

​@@TheNapster153maybe he had accidentally fired whilst raising uo the RPG, leading to it exploding near the marines. Because i have never seen an account of a Taliban trooper firing an RPG into the ground, as to scare/injure marines/armymen. Closest thing was a Vietcong guerrilla who fired into the jungle, foliage slowed the RPG by abunch, ended up tangling itself on the foliage.

😅

Same saw the photo and was like "dam man that must've hurt, he's lucky just to even get medical attention"

My guess is it hit a large bone like the femur and got wedged, that being said its still insane to think about.

Bro had thighs of steel

Because his build different

Soviet Era rocket launchers are OLD, manufactured decades ago. The propellants, detonators and explosives have a limited shelf-life, usually 10 to 12 years before they eithere turn inert or malfunction. That rocket fired into the marine could have easily been 20+ years old, both it's propellant and detonator had long since eroded, meaning the rocket was fired at a fraction of its intended speed. This is a common problem in Ukraine for both Russian and UA forces (frequent duds as the munitions being fired were manufactured when the Soviet Union still existed).

@Hathur I was thinking something more along the lines of the shot being at too close of a range to have the boosters engage but that makes more sense

A woman in America got shot in the face with a 40 mm grenade

Mr ballen reference?

What about a 125mm cannon?

@@thelordofthelostbraincells cool

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.50 bot account

As a a child I assumed it stood for Rocket Projectile Gun. Still kinda think it's better.

reddit

HATGL not as good of a name

It’s “rocket propelled grenade”

Calm down buddy

Welp. Gotta thank the Poor Quality RPGs then...or maybe not. 🤔

@@silverhawkscape2677 depends whether you survive or just live a more drawn out death full of pain, agony, and the worst anxiety stress ever of not knowing if the next second youre gonna exist and then suddenly youre not.

​@@silverhawkscape2677 its rather the person who fired it was under 5 meters

Normally I would agree with you but this video leaves out a crucial detail that doesn't get mentioned much and that is the fact that the SGT had to pull his gun on the medivac crew to motivate them to ACT LIKE Soldiers and not whiney bitches. They signed up for the Military and that means your new job is to be put in harms way and face deadly peril until you die or the war is over. That pilot forgot that important fact or just thought that he was gunna cruise on easy street or something, I'm glad there was at least one real man along for that mission or the guy who got the rpg warhead stuck in him would have been left to die when you are supposed to treat other soldiers as brothers and leave no man behind. Lofty ideals and inspiring quotes often times are forgotten in the exact moments they need to be remembered and acted upon. I will never EVER spill blood or risk my life for this country, because the pathetic leaders and politicians in the US will drop you in a meat grinder for nothing, risk your life unnecessarily, lie to you and throw you to the wolves and if you survive all of that and make it home they will forget about you, leave you to languish in pain and despair in the hopes that you kill yourself so they can write you off completely because to them you are considered a drain on their resources despite the fact that you are already only getting about 10 percent of the care and help they promise you if you are injured or crippled fighting in a war that they fabricated for political reasons. This world is so fucked up.

@@nomadjensen82761. Not all conflicts are about some corrupt politicians goal like that war which was the global war on terror. 2. Your attitude towards this is terrible

That they fucking are.....

That's actually true

@@MEHCAT1774 Marines are called Devil Dogs for a reason

100%

No they are built just like everyone else.😂

fail dumb

XD

All wounded us military personal in combat action gets the Purple Heart

It’s true I have a trunk full of them. I’m not a service member I’m an amateur archeologists. But society wants to label me a “grave robber”.

​@@Justin-pe9cl lmao

There is a reason for why military never take chances with unexploded ordinance, even if it is a dud. Just because it didn't exploded like it was supposed too, doesn't mean it can't go off by other means. After all, most explosives are by design meant to be extremely volatile.

depending where it hits

why has no one noticed this refrence 😮

​@@Alex-iq9dw Because almost every other comment is the exact same thing.

Marine

@@erocktherockjohnson5169 facts

Incoming hate comments from politically correct ppl

@@APersonOnKZfaqX being calm so far. But honestly I would never blame the soldiers cause all what they do is follow orders and duties.

​@@APersonOnKZfaqX as much I hate russia for their action, Putin should get more flak, the ground soldier maybe deserve a fist to the shoulder at best, or get into Hague court at worse.

It’s surprising the Russians managed to effectively casevac the hit soldier. It’s not like they are known for effective or even much casevac in their current warcrime bonanza. So not only getting taken to a field hospital but with some UXO in your body must have been like a win in the lottery.

@AntonGudenus You probably know better.

Lol

It's unexploded ordnance they have to get rid of it..

It was immediately destroyed it's standard procedure

Fucking legend wow

Title pls.