Anwalt der Verdammten
No CNN here, but it sounds like he deserves it.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
2nd Living? Uh, no. There's quite a few still alive, even some from WW 2. You mean 2nd living from the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
Good show though, takes serious guts to throw a live grenade away from your fellows.
edited 12th Jul '11 11:35:13 AM by blueharp
Yeah, I forgot to ad the Iraq/Afghanistan bit.
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Hooah, Ranger.
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Apparently he's still out there conducting ops with the Regiment; prosthetics have come a hell of a way.
I knew I should of gotten my doctorate!
As I see prosthetics get more and more advanced, it gives me a lot of peace of mind when it comes to any nagging fears about serious injury in the line of duty. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I lost a limb and had to stop wearing the uniform, prolly eventually off myself.
Shit, there's plenty of honor in taking an instructor position at the Academy for the rest of my days. I'd be right at home going back there.
edited 12th Jul '11 7:16:50 PM by Barkey
@Barkey: Lead the Roughnecks and slap some sense into young troopers?
So we've got a guy on a ODA who went back with a prosthetic leg, SFC Petry getting a hand; wonder how long till we can replace an entire arm.
edited 12th Jul '11 7:24:36 PM by Kino
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
I'm not one to generally praise cops or soldiers, but that guy truly went above and beyond.
I know for a fact I'd have yelled "Grenade!" and jumped'n'ducked as far away as I could without as much as a second thought.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
Street Writing Man
...I settle for letting servicemen drink for free in my home.
@Savage: With you there. Not sure I'd fall on a grenade, or even lunge for a live one.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
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Sometimes a grenade is so close that you know you have no time to get away, and your only chance is to try and throw it back.
Eye'm the cutest!
^ Either that or bury it beneath your helmet and/or body armor with you on top to save everyone else. (Chance of survival: Pretty low but folks have done it before and remained intact.)
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
Sneering Imperialist
There was a British soldier who jumped on a grenade and survived unscathed because his backpack took the worst of it iirc.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
It definitely happens, just gotta remember to exhale all the air out of your lungs before it blows, only way you have a chance in hell of surviving the overpressure if you're inside the 5 meter kill radius.
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Overpressure? What's this? I am uneducated.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
It's the pressure that comes from a shock wave(in this case the grenade) that's over normal atmospheric pressure.
Eye'm the cutest!
^^ In layman, the compressed air wave that occurs because of an explosion. It along with shrapnel are the primary injury/fatality causes when it comes to military explosives.
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
Street Writing Man
@Barkey: What about the fragments? I mean, modern grenades are designed to transform into a berjillion pieces of hot metal flying at high velocity IIRC. One wonders how this ranger was lucky enough not to catch enough of those to get killed.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
DS: simple. The fragments FEARED his badassness. They saw his act of heroism and said "whoa, let's not fuck with this dude."
His hand probably caught the bulk of the fragments that were headed in his particular direction before they were able to disperse far enough.
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Maybe I should have gone to diving school. How does emptying your lungs protect you from the overpressure? That sounds like it kills from impact force.
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Collector Of Fine Oddities
If I recall, the force of the impact will rupture your lungs if they're inflated. Kind of like stepping on an inflated balloon versus a deflated one, for a visualization.
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This.
The main cause of death from overpressure isn't impact, it's the ruptured lungs. Impact can kill too, but having a lung pop like that is almost instantly fatal. Shrapnel tends to wound, and that's what it's designed to do. Shrapnel only kills people when the shards get lucky and hit a major vein or artery, or a vulnerable spot such as the neck or head.
SFC Petry lost his arm in a firefight
, but gained the Mo H, making him the 2nd living Mo H recipient after SSG Salvatore Giunta.
Fuckin spot on sergent Petry.
The award ceremony is about to start in a few minutes; if you've got CNN.