Absurd Stories from the Afghanistan War
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Published 2023-09-06
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All Comments (21)
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The whole RPG thing also happened in the 80's with a South African soldier from 32 battalion... But it was in his chest. He actually survived and was part of the instructors if I remember correctly.
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its crazy how strong and tough, yet fragile the human body is
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Where is Jamsheed the RPG god? He deserves an entire episode about himself.
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I love the fact that Simple History put their videos together into one compilation video
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Imagine how cool it must to be able to say "Yeah i survived a direct hit from a RPG"
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As a teenager I would do yard work for one of my neighbors who was a vet. He'd always tell me stories about when he was in the war, but the most notable ones were the time he got shot through the hand, all the way through his elbow, to taking a mortar to the foot. Had the scars to prove it and all. Moved away and haven't seen him in years, but I've always wondered what he's been up to.. quite the character
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That British soldiers' incident was so tragic. Such a waste of good men's lives
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So every single person who encountered the RPG was delicate and careful, including voting whether or not they were even going to try and save his life...only to get EOD, the experts, to "yank 3 times." I'm not doubting the process, I'm just kinda laughing at the outcome. "Oh. So that's all we had to do Sarge?"
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There is literally live video of the RPG being removed from his leg. I highly recommend looking it up. That, and hearing the soldiers talk about it make it that much scarier
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War tends to yield some of the strangest stories.
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i remember reading about a story of an ANA commander who shoulder fired a spg-9 recoilless rifle successfully, one of his troops attempted to do the same and was described by the canadian infantry recalling the story as "the man seemed to have taken a particular disliking to the Taliban base on the moon" as the man fired he was said to have done a front flip from the force of the weapon, the story comes from the book "the taliban don't wave"
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I just love when Simple History puts its videos into one,excellent as usual🎉
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If I remember correctly, the first story had a somewhat sad outcome, where I believe the flight crew was reprimanded for disobeying protocols. It's sad because they place their lives in danger each time they do a medevac, and this was more or less no difference of risk to them.
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— “This is Afghanistan. Alexander the Great tried to conquer this country. Then Genghis Khan, then the British, Russia, and also U.S. copied from Rambo lll and rewritten by me
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If it was close enough of a hit, the RPG didn't detonate because for once the Russian's safety mechanisms worked. It has a minimum flight distance before it is able to detonate.
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"I used to be soldier like you, until an RPG hit my leg"
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Similarly a soldier of 32 Bn in the Angolan war was struck in his chest by an RPG warhead while he was in the prone position. It entered from his collarbone area. He miraculously survived. He's interviewed in the Grensoorlog/Bush War DVD documentary series.
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Its amazing that a Black Hawk can fly with that many sets of massive steel balls weighing it down.
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The animation upgrades from when this channel first started to what we see now is crazy
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The dramatic and tragic story of the English soldiers in this minefield was made into the captivating war film "Kilo Two Bravo" (2014). Absolutely worth seeing!
