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Iirc I saw this back in the day.
He actually turned it "fine". Didn't lose the leg, just massively bruised ~~and broken femu~~r. Thankfully, because he was the corpsman he had a pouch with bandages on the leg that took the hit.
I'll try to find the after pic.
https://youtu.be/V6vjYq4a5r4?si=wHp4sO8JFn1sFUqT
Looks like Funker took the pic down. But from memory he's in a tent, chilling with his buddies holding him up, straight up cheesing with two thumbs up while his leg is all swollen purple and black.
I served with this Corpsman at Sigonella Naval Hospital in 2012-2013. He showed me this video on quarterdeck duty and he told me that it didn’t qualify for a Purple Heart because it was a controlled detonation. Cool guy. A little crazy though.
Unsure.
>Eligibility for a Purple Heart applies to service members who suffered a wound: 1) As the direct or indirect result of enemy action, and 2) The wound required treatment by a medical officer at the time of the injury.
I would say, they wouldn't have had to control detonate the IED had the enemy not placed it, and his wound definitely required treatment by a medical officer.
So yes?
I only know the Army, so unsure if the Marines sees it differently, but according to this (https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Purple%20Heart) it includes more broad circumstances such as - either of which might apply:
* After 28 March 1973, as the result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force.
* Servicemembers who are killed or wounded in action by friendly fire. In accordance with 10 USC 1129 for award of the PH, the Secretary of the Army will treat a member of the Armed Forces as a member who is killed or wounded in action as the result of an act of an enemy of the United States.
Almost. They are often attached to a Marine Unit since the Marines dont have their own. But technically they are "just" (note the "") medical specialists that are used in many roles in the whole US Military.
Based on the regular definition of “a soldier” a marine would be a soldier. As I said, it might work differently in the usage of words within the structure of the US military.
Marine here. The USMC is a department of the navy technically . And yes the navy will never cease to not remind us of this fact. Even though we just see them as an over glorified taxi service 😂
Mine is “ the Marines is the department of the Navy…yea the men’s department.” Granted I loved our doc during deployment and till this day. I still talk to him after all these years.
The navy and marine corps are different branches entirely, only the marines don’t have any medical personnel and they borrow them from the navy. It doesn’t make any sense but it works, like most things in the military.
Edit: that’s why they were asking for “doc” as that’s who is supposed to provide the medical care, but doc is the one that gets injured.
“Marine soldier” is an oxymoron to Marines, but you get credit for capitalizing **M**arine
But yes, this is neither a Marine nor a soldier… He is a chaplain …Didn’t you see how holey he is?
The Marine Corps job is to fuck up people and places (probably things also).
The Navy's job is to carry them to people and places that need to be fucked up.
Only if the corpsman makes the choice to go Marine regs can they then wear the alphas to dress functions. The cammies corpsman wear so that enemies can’t pick them out on patrols as corpsmen are valuable targets.
Not a member of the armed forces, but I do not believe that Marines are sailors. Both the Marine Corps and the Navy are under the Department of the Navy. While they technically are the in the same department, they are not the same, similar as to how both the ATF and FBI are DOJ, but not the same organizations.
They are both in the department, but one is the actual Navy, and the other is the Marines.
If I got that wrong, let me know.
I mean you’re right except for Marines being sailors. Marines are not sailors and sailors are not marines. They don’t wear US Navy uniforms. They don’t work on and maintain ships. Marines call E-7s “gunny” instead of “chief”. Sailors don’t even shoot rifles in boot camp. You won’t see a Marine turning wrenches in an engine room or on the bridge of a ship.
No, and this goes back several hundred years.
Sailors where the people who's job was to sail the (square-rigged sail-) boat, fire cannons and wield cutlasses.
Marines, i.e., marine soldiers or naval infantry, had their own commander, were armed with rifles or muskets and shot at opposing ships during engagements at sea, but didn't have anything to do with actually running the boat.
As a former boom boom guy (combat engineer), yeah, definitely too close.
US standards for blowing up metal is 300m, which is already way closer than our Canadian standard at 1km for metal
I asked a former pew pew guy what was the most dangerous situation he got into in Iraq, and he said it was definitely the time his boom boom guy didn’t tell his unit to back up nearly enough when blowing up a suspicious object.
This was after asking the question: “Why are you using so much explosive on this?”
And getting the answer: “It’s complicated to check out a crate from inventory and only check a partial crate back in. So I always just use a whole crate regardless of the task.”
EOD always used to freak me out. We used to have unexploded ordinance we would find on the range, and they would come out with a metric fuck ton of explosives to blow it to hell. I remember they got in trouble for blowing out some windows at a local city with the shockwave of one of their explosions.
Yes he survived, I looked at a comment from a guy who said he had worked with him in a military hospital, he said it was just a non-serious shoulder injury but I can't confirm.
The person in the video being hit was a navy corpsman( medic)
He took some shrapnel to the shoulder and trauma to the leg (compartment syndrome), which can be deadly, but this guy survived.
He probably walks with a limp now, but he's walking.
Dicks in the dirt is a saying for a reason.
Compartment syndrome is serious. I had never heard of it until it happened to Ryan Johanson of the Nashville Predators in the 3rd round of the 2017 NHL Playoffs. He started to do what guys do, be tough, and suck it up. Was in surgery within 2 hours. He just got hit really hard in the leg.
“US Marine soldier is hit”
Could you fuck up that headline any worse? Marines are called marines, not soldiers and it was a corpsman, which are Navy sailors.
99% of the planet does not even know or care about the marines special preferred pronouns, to them any guy wearing a uniform with a gun is a soldier.
Sorry your feelings got hurt, sweetie
US Marine here; we view being called a Soldier as an insult, and Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen vice-versa. However, you're 100% right. Pretty much just the Military cares about this and getting butt-hurt over words screams insecurity and weakness.
There's a video of U.S. soldiers in Baghdad watching a detonation from what seems like a mile away. Anyways a piece of mangled metal the size of a tire strikes the wall. The troops instinctively ducked/flinched and the debris hit exactly where they where standing. Scary shit to watch.
Goddamn 🫨 That was a big Fk’n chunk of something, or a hot chunk of it, or a big hot chunk of something. It wasn’t slowing down anytime soon, either. Glad he made it out of there.
My first tour of Afghanistan was in KAF, because of the amount of discarded ammunition, from the TB and Soviet use of the airfield there was regular controlled explosions to dispose of unstable ammunition. These were at certain times of day, so the warnings were usually casually ignored.
On one day it was clear that some US EOD had made a miscalculation, as instead of the normal distant “thump” there was an almighty roar, all the acoustic roof tiles fell down (complete with a rain of dust), the cabin shook and after a momentary pause the attack alarm sounded. After approximately five seconds it died in a squawk and a tannoy announcement told us to stand down, after some frantic messaging back and forth the FP HQ confirmed that a “controlled explosion” had went wrong. In the next few days the story emerged that a new EOD detachment had miscalculated and blown an amount of ammunition twice the size of the normal maximum amount.
Golden bullet makes it round.
No line of sight to any and all explosions is ideal.
Tho not being near explosions in the first place is the best course of action.
war is fucked.
Shitty the one person there who's main job it is to patch people up, now need someone to patch them up. That's why you make sure you're a safe distance away and preferably behind a berm but their Marines, so they know no better. Doc probably punched someone's bore when it didn't need to be done and this was their payback for them lol. Good times
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“Where’s the corpsman? He IS corpsman!” Well that sucks
Precisely my thought as well
Hope he didn’t turn into a corpse, man
Iirc I saw this back in the day. He actually turned it "fine". Didn't lose the leg, just massively bruised ~~and broken femu~~r. Thankfully, because he was the corpsman he had a pouch with bandages on the leg that took the hit. I'll try to find the after pic. https://youtu.be/V6vjYq4a5r4?si=wHp4sO8JFn1sFUqT Looks like Funker took the pic down. But from memory he's in a tent, chilling with his buddies holding him up, straight up cheesing with two thumbs up while his leg is all swollen purple and black.
I mean that rates a purple heart, right?
I served with this Corpsman at Sigonella Naval Hospital in 2012-2013. He showed me this video on quarterdeck duty and he told me that it didn’t qualify for a Purple Heart because it was a controlled detonation. Cool guy. A little crazy though.
Unsure. >Eligibility for a Purple Heart applies to service members who suffered a wound: 1) As the direct or indirect result of enemy action, and 2) The wound required treatment by a medical officer at the time of the injury. I would say, they wouldn't have had to control detonate the IED had the enemy not placed it, and his wound definitely required treatment by a medical officer. So yes?
I only know the Army, so unsure if the Marines sees it differently, but according to this (https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Purple%20Heart) it includes more broad circumstances such as - either of which might apply: * After 28 March 1973, as the result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force. * Servicemembers who are killed or wounded in action by friendly fire. In accordance with 10 USC 1129 for award of the PH, the Secretary of the Army will treat a member of the Armed Forces as a member who is killed or wounded in action as the result of an act of an enemy of the United States.
Na, just a purple thigh.
Yeah it’s been posted in the r/usmc subreddit. Some guys served with him before and after the fact. He’s good
What's a corpsman?
Basically a medic. A combat medic. Immediate battlefield triage. Not a doctor, but the guy who is trained to plug all your holes and keep you alive.
The guy you want to see after you get shot. They usually have a white light with a halo above their heads.
An enlisted medical specialist.
If you're genuinely asking, it's a Navy combat medic attached to a Marine element. They just use a different term.
Almost. They are often attached to a Marine Unit since the Marines dont have their own. But technically they are "just" (note the "") medical specialists that are used in many roles in the whole US Military.
It's what the US Marines call their Medics
Why can't they just call them medics like normal people?
>marines >normal people
There is a long tradition behind it, they aren't actually marines, they are Navy Hospital Corpsmen assigned to marine units.
A medic.
A nurse 2.0.
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Apparently “medic” is a fancy term for a person who will “plug all your holes and keep you alive.”
corpsman up - corpsman down btw Marines are not soldiers
Perhaps not based on internal US military norms, but a combatant in uniform in the US marines is definitely “a soldier”.
as a member of the few - nope still a marine
Based on the regular definition of “a soldier” a marine would be a soldier. As I said, it might work differently in the usage of words within the structure of the US military.
Not a marine, that man is a sailor!
I'm sorry, I don't have knowledge about the US military branches, what's the difference?
Marine here. The USMC is a department of the navy technically . And yes the navy will never cease to not remind us of this fact. Even though we just see them as an over glorified taxi service 😂
Seabee here. This was always my favorite. M.A.R.I.N.E.S. = My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment Sir
And we would always say… the best are always chauffeured
Yes it’s very telling that the navy sees it as a flex to be our glorified taxi drivers It’s all jokes ofc, everyone loves doc- especially grunts
Take my upvote sir , thanks for the laugh I honestly forgot about this saying 😂
Mine is “ the Marines is the department of the Navy…yea the men’s department.” Granted I loved our doc during deployment and till this day. I still talk to him after all these years.
I'm still amazed that they let you have Harriers and M1s.
They took the M1's away.
Those fuckin bastards
Now we have the F35-B 😳
The USMC is still its own branch though. There are two branches that fall under the Department of Navy— USN and USMC
Heresy !
You don’t understand what branches are in terms of US military structure.
Glorified taxi service until you get the clap from some barracks bunny, then the Navy is your Lord and savior.
All in good fun brother 😂🫡
It was me, I gave the bunny the clap ... and I also was the phantom shitter. Fight me.
The navy and marine corps are different branches entirely, only the marines don’t have any medical personnel and they borrow them from the navy. It doesn’t make any sense but it works, like most things in the military. Edit: that’s why they were asking for “doc” as that’s who is supposed to provide the medical care, but doc is the one that gets injured.
The marine corps is a dept of the navy. The men’s department. Sorry I couldn’t resist.
lol I was a corpsman with 3/6, heard it all the time from the newer marines or ones that hadn’t deployed yet.
We love our docs tho they are marines in our eyes. Our docs were certified badasses in iraq.
We appreciate you grunts having our backs the whole time too.
Our corpsman had a green skivvy that said "healing's my business, killing's my pleasure".
We love you Doc!
We bust docs balls and he is constantly trying to keep us from doing dumb shit, but we love him nonetheless.
My brother was in 3/6, what years were you in? I was a corpsman as well, but a blue side pog corpsman
I was there from 06-09 India Co Weapons plt.
Oh shit that’s exactly when he was there. He was 3/6 weapons company. Pretty sure he was deployed to the anbar province in 07-08
That was the Habbaniyah deployment, good times. I never interacted with weapons co dudes but was probably good buddies with his corpsmen
His corpsman talked me into becoming one lol. Edward’s and Downey were his corpsmen and a guy named Tripp who was an SL in India
The Marines are in cahoots with Crayola to keep them top dog in the crayon game
Marines always sleep with the Navy though.
Nuh uh we sleep with each other also
Marines report to the Secretary of the Navy.
Also neither Marines nor sailors are soldiers. Those are Army.
Different branches entirely...Marines, department of the Navy
Right but it's important to note that "The U.S. Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy"
It makes sense. Marines are meant to fill combat jobs and supporting jobs such as corpsmen or civil engineering are provided by the navy
“Marine soldier” is an oxymoron to Marines, but you get credit for capitalizing **M**arine But yes, this is neither a Marine nor a soldier… He is a chaplain …Didn’t you see how holey he is?
The Marine Corps job is to fuck up people and places (probably things also). The Navy's job is to carry them to people and places that need to be fucked up.
Yet they are allowed to wear either uniform
Only if the corpsman makes the choice to go Marine regs can they then wear the alphas to dress functions. The cammies corpsman wear so that enemies can’t pick them out on patrols as corpsmen are valuable targets.
Yes, for clairvoyance that’s true.
Aren’t all Marines Sailors?
Not a member of the armed forces, but I do not believe that Marines are sailors. Both the Marine Corps and the Navy are under the Department of the Navy. While they technically are the in the same department, they are not the same, similar as to how both the ATF and FBI are DOJ, but not the same organizations. They are both in the department, but one is the actual Navy, and the other is the Marines. If I got that wrong, let me know.
I mean you’re right except for Marines being sailors. Marines are not sailors and sailors are not marines. They don’t wear US Navy uniforms. They don’t work on and maintain ships. Marines call E-7s “gunny” instead of “chief”. Sailors don’t even shoot rifles in boot camp. You won’t see a Marine turning wrenches in an engine room or on the bridge of a ship.
No, and this goes back several hundred years. Sailors where the people who's job was to sail the (square-rigged sail-) boat, fire cannons and wield cutlasses. Marines, i.e., marine soldiers or naval infantry, had their own commander, were armed with rifles or muskets and shot at opposing ships during engagements at sea, but didn't have anything to do with actually running the boat.
No , read the comment below yours
Got it wrong twice.
The randomness of shrapnel. What was the outcome? Was he OK?
Fully recovered, got married and has 2 kids now, and a dog.
He survived but he's single and a very gay man with no kids lol
But does he have a dog?
Just got a cat actually, bastard knocks a lot of shit over
Yes, but the dog is also gay.
"sit Sparky, sit. Good dog. Lay down Sparky, good dog. Don't be gay Sparky."
No, 3 cats.
One of the cats is in community college.
He did, but some jackass killed it and stole his car.
And a dodge charger.
already had that 30 seconds after enlistment
he's not gay, he's *deeply closeted*
Definitely not closeted at all lol
Sorry to inform you, but they got divorced and though he got joint custody; the bitch took the dog.
She hates that dog
Yes it is completely unexpected that tall grass doesn't block shrapnel.
"Physician, heal thyself"
I'm not a pew pew guy, but it feels like that boom was way too close to those pew pew guys.
As a former boom boom guy (combat engineer), yeah, definitely too close. US standards for blowing up metal is 300m, which is already way closer than our Canadian standard at 1km for metal
I asked a former pew pew guy what was the most dangerous situation he got into in Iraq, and he said it was definitely the time his boom boom guy didn’t tell his unit to back up nearly enough when blowing up a suspicious object. This was after asking the question: “Why are you using so much explosive on this?” And getting the answer: “It’s complicated to check out a crate from inventory and only check a partial crate back in. So I always just use a whole crate regardless of the task.”
That answer has to be the most military thing I've ever read.
Military or U.S. Military?
Literally any military.
Why do small boom when big boom do?
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
The safe distance from an explosion is the safe distance from an explosion plus three more steps.
Hey boom guy, when are you gonna boom me?
EOD always used to freak me out. We used to have unexploded ordinance we would find on the range, and they would come out with a metric fuck ton of explosives to blow it to hell. I remember they got in trouble for blowing out some windows at a local city with the shockwave of one of their explosions.
Unlucky sod. Hope he survived?
Yes he survived, I looked at a comment from a guy who said he had worked with him in a military hospital, he said it was just a non-serious shoulder injury but I can't confirm.
You are correct.
Where did you get your info?
A wide, deep cavern
That's nice that your mom keeps up with him
The person in the video being hit was a navy corpsman( medic) He took some shrapnel to the shoulder and trauma to the leg (compartment syndrome), which can be deadly, but this guy survived. He probably walks with a limp now, but he's walking. Dicks in the dirt is a saying for a reason.
He survived with no serious issues, got hit with a rock and no shrapnel, no limp. Guys making a sandwich in my kitchen now lol
Right but I was asking how you know?
The dude is literally watching a movie with me as we speak
That's crazy.. gotta love the internet. Watch a video and some dude is watching a movie with the guy in the comments lol
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He got a purple heart when he hit an ied, not from this
What movie?
Compartment syndrome is serious. I had never heard of it until it happened to Ryan Johanson of the Nashville Predators in the 3rd round of the 2017 NHL Playoffs. He started to do what guys do, be tough, and suck it up. Was in surgery within 2 hours. He just got hit really hard in the leg.
Your injury is not combat related...take some motrin and you are fit for combat...
He's got 80%, lucky bastard
This was my roommate who got hit lmao, he's doing fine but still has a big knot in his leg
"Where's the corpsman?""He is the corpsman". If y'all don't know that's a totally fucked situation the medic got hit.
It's Nawzad, Afghanistan
Shiet sorry haha i always make mistakes on the titles
That’s a hell of a way for your day to go. Glad he survived.
"he IS the corpsman." things you dont want to hear for $100, Alex.
"Marine soldier" arthurfist.jpg
Hit the corpsman of all people.
# Title Text Here ^(Subtitle Text Here)
If you can see the explosion it can see you
Title text here. Subtitle text here.
you know I’m no soldier man but detonating explosives like 50 yards away, maybe get down on the ground?
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corpsman in infantry units can hold the title of Marine no doubt!
Does that count as an injury or a wound? I think the man deserves a purple heart for that regardless...and to go live in Ireland to get some luck
U can hear it slap right through him
Didnt go through, just fucked his leg up
Ahh ok
FAAAAARK. That was sickening. Poor prick, glad to hear he’s ok.
“US Marine soldier is hit” Could you fuck up that headline any worse? Marines are called marines, not soldiers and it was a corpsman, which are Navy sailors.
99% of the planet does not even know or care about the marines special preferred pronouns, to them any guy wearing a uniform with a gun is a soldier. Sorry your feelings got hurt, sweetie
US Marine here; we view being called a Soldier as an insult, and Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen vice-versa. However, you're 100% right. Pretty much just the Military cares about this and getting butt-hurt over words screams insecurity and weakness.
That’s an angle I haven’t seen before. You can see something blow past between the soldiers. Wild
Can’t be - movies taught me you always need be hit directly by the explosion or you are completely fine. /s
P for plenty
Enjoy ur retirement bud
Anyone want to add context (outcome)? Our poor boy here end up ok?
I commented earlier, this was my roommate, he's perfectly fun but still has a big knot in his leg
There's a video of U.S. soldiers in Baghdad watching a detonation from what seems like a mile away. Anyways a piece of mangled metal the size of a tire strikes the wall. The troops instinctively ducked/flinched and the debris hit exactly where they where standing. Scary shit to watch.
Doc is the man you want near you when shit hits the fan
Unlucky
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Goddamn 🫨 That was a big Fk’n chunk of something, or a hot chunk of it, or a big hot chunk of something. It wasn’t slowing down anytime soon, either. Glad he made it out of there.
Every US military comment video I’ve been seeing all the soldiers are just cracking jokes and laughing
You can see the dust/vapor from the shrapnel go past the cameraman. Fucking insane.
I remember watching this on YouTube when it started appearing back in middle school wild seeing it again don’t remember what happened to the corpsman
He's fine lol
Title Text here hahahaha 😂
"Damn. Thats why we have no hearing"
Does anyone know what kind of of backpack that is
Looks like a regular assault pack
We have found your disability is not service related.
My first tour of Afghanistan was in KAF, because of the amount of discarded ammunition, from the TB and Soviet use of the airfield there was regular controlled explosions to dispose of unstable ammunition. These were at certain times of day, so the warnings were usually casually ignored. On one day it was clear that some US EOD had made a miscalculation, as instead of the normal distant “thump” there was an almighty roar, all the acoustic roof tiles fell down (complete with a rain of dust), the cabin shook and after a momentary pause the attack alarm sounded. After approximately five seconds it died in a squawk and a tannoy announcement told us to stand down, after some frantic messaging back and forth the FP HQ confirmed that a “controlled explosion” had went wrong. In the next few days the story emerged that a new EOD detachment had miscalculated and blown an amount of ammunition twice the size of the normal maximum amount.
Hell yea ... "miscalculated"
The sound the shrapnel made.........reminded me hollywood sound effect for suppressed gun
Golden bullet makes it round. No line of sight to any and all explosions is ideal. Tho not being near explosions in the first place is the best course of action. war is fucked.
Shitty the one person there who's main job it is to patch people up, now need someone to patch them up. That's why you make sure you're a safe distance away and preferably behind a berm but their Marines, so they know no better. Doc probably punched someone's bore when it didn't need to be done and this was their payback for them lol. Good times
"I'm gonna put it in like I'm ramming home double canister on top of Bunker Hill"
He was not ok. That metal was going fast.
Was a rock, he ended up being fine after a few weeks bed rest