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Originally Posted by mac459
2007 I was blown from the gunners hatch through a wall from an IED blast. ****ed my shoulder up, broke a few ribs, broke my ankle, some shrapnel wounds.
Couple years later, I caught six AK rounds to my chest plate that is designed to take 3 before not being worth a shit. Also had a few sniper shots pass close enough to my head to feel the heat and pressure from the rounds on my face.
Couple years later, survived a helicopter smashing into the ground like a lawn dart. Broken back from that.
Couple of years later, was blown off the side of a mountain from an RPG, during an ambush. Ended up with broken bones, blown out knee and few other things. That lead to my retirement.
I miss the **** out of my old job.
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Yeah. Thank you. I was the “bridge” generation between the Vietnam guys that trained me and likely you and yours (1977-2009 active then turned Pentagon bureaucrat), my first Skipper referred to his PHs as “Vietnamese shooting badges”