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Thread: Video: Marine survives Taliban sniper headshot thanks to helmet

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    Video: Marine survives Taliban sniper headshot thanks to helmet

    http://sploid.gizmodo.com/scary-vide...116/+caseychan

    If the shot was close enough their ears are ringing the guy has to be right outside somewhere.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    When I was in the Army/82Abn back in 1983 we were one of the first to use Kevlar helmets in a combat zone. Urgent Fury/Grenada was a good testing ground. One of our Officers took a AK around to there helmet on the side of it. Got imbedded. They had it on display in out HQ. Hopefully they put it in the Museum there on base.
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    Someone I know told me about a kevlar from Iraq with an ak round or two embedded in it in their division museum.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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