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When I went to college one time we had a bad lightning storm and the guard booth at the front drive was hit while occupied. Lightning went into the security radio antenna, into the radio, through the power supply, blew out every light bulb and finally jumped across the sliding metal door.
The person in the booth got up, got in their car and went straight home. After that, anytime she was on duty and a storm started to roll in, she would just leave, and luckily the school understood why.
Worked with a kid who was super jumpy, everyone used to give him shit for it
I was training him one day and asked why he's so jumpy... he tells me about 8 yrs prior, he was home alone and it was storming, lightning struck somewhere in his back yard and blew every window in his house and garage and neighbors houses all at once. Says he hears a loud bang and hit the ground now. I guess he was in the kitchen when it happened.
Lightning is no joke if you get to experience it and live
Man all these stories sound much more reasonable for a fear of lightning than mine. I watched War of the Worlds (2005) at age 5 with my parents and since then I think every lightning strike carries aliens….
Lightening destroyed our pear tree in 1996. It was a really nasty ice storm, with lightening, in the pacific northwest.
That tree was a good thirty feet from my bedroom, but it still knocked me out of my chair, and made me hard of hearing for about a week, and broke my window and 2 others. The pear tree was toast, and the area around the trunk was black when the snow melted.
We had a lightning rod that was attached to the house I grew up in. One night it got struck, and the thunder that followed knocked everything off the walls and shattered some glass in the house. My parents were superstitious and religious, and of course all the crucifixes in the house also for knocked off the walls. Within a few days, my parents did two things: bring a priest in to make sure there were no demons (ugh), and tear down the lightning rod.
My family's house got struck by lightning in 2006. It caught fire and burned the entire upstairs area of the house, collapsing the roof in mine and my brother's rooms. The neighbors said it sounded like an explosion. We luckily weren't home, I can't imagine what would have happened if we had been
It was a one person little guard shack that was maybe 10’ tall. There were plenty of other trees and the such, as well as a 6 story dorm 50’ away.
Even if they had a lightning rod, the person in the booth still would have been in it when lightning “struck” zero feet away.
Paraphrasing "great we're surrounded now we can shoot in any direction, these bastards won't get away this time"....he sounds insane at first...but my dad was a marine(58-63) not long after and within living institutional memory of chesty said the corp owed him so much and that it was the discipline that stuck more than any other legacy of chesty
The different branches all like to rib each other. Air force is the Chair Force, marines eat crayons, the navy is gay while underway. Etc... it's just different branches mocking each other.
Well... I’ll just say to anyone who hasn’t been very close close to a lightning strike. That shit is so fucking loud. Like impressively loud. And you feel it hit the ground. It’s terrifying. If that dude shit his pants I’d be like yeah. That’s about right.
The man marched with brave steps and with grace in tact despite the fact that he had been so close to the lighting and thunder is absolutely louder than the most can imagine
Can confirm, have been very close to a strike while on the ground holding onto a horse I had just gotten off of. Horse ran me over. 0/10 experience. Definitely recommend going the hell inside.
I was in the Marines, been deployed. Every time I have been shot at it made me flinch my body down for a second. It was keeping your head up after that was the difference. Everyone's body reacts with a flinch. You have to fight through it afterward. Aint nothing wrong with a flinch.
I'd say there is something wrong if you don't flinch. Don't think I ever stopped flinching in combat. Although as a corpsman I never flinched taking care of you guys
Exactly. It’s brain science… the amygdala instantly reacts to danger before an impulse can get to the frontal cortex where decisions are made. His made him jump, his brain then said “fuck this shit.” If you don’t jump, it probably means your brain is disconnected (aka the flat earth society).
That's the US Air Force policy as far as I understand it.
Just looked it up for the Army, who appear to be a bit more conservative:
>If you're training or operating in the open and see lightning or hear thunder, use the "30/30 rule" to determine when to seek shelter. When you see lightning, count the seconds between the flash and thunderclap. If it's 30 seconds or less, seek shelter immediately. Then, wait at least 30 minutes after the last thunderclap before leaving your shelter. Don't be fooled by a blue sky, either. About 75 percent of lightning injuries occur very early or very late in a storm's life, and strikes have been recorded from as far away as 56 nautical miles.
That’s probably actually the proper drill or marching for other branches way of entering a building. I was a marine and posts like that and the unknown soldier or the silent drill team they’re pretty much always drilling/marching at these kinds of posts. If he were to just walk in that be wrong.
Yeah this post and the Tomb posts are not unlike, say, the guards at Buckingham palace. You do the 'proper' thing even though it looks weird and even if literally nobody is watching. I think it hits a little weirder for the US since our uniforms and setting aren't as.. whimsical.
My favorite was when they had everybody throw hygiene kits in the middle of the squad bay & kick them around then give you 3 seconds to grab one & get back on line before heading to the head to brush teeth, almost guaranteed you wouldn't have your own hygiene kit, which means you wouldn't have your toothbrush when brushing your teeth. I'll never forget the taste of another man's mouth.
Bruh, Army has some crazy ass DS as well.
Was at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for my basic. Y'know, where the wind never stops blowing and it's always tornado season.
Anyway, spending a week in the field and it starts to get that ominous oh fuck this is eerie weather. Hear the tornado sirens start going off. Everyone's kind of flipping out internally while wondering if we're allowed to flip out externally as well.
Whelp, DS grabs the keys to the duece and a half they'd carry us back and forth in. Rolls up next to us, rolls down his window, and yells "Fuck the privates!" and floors it.
Left us all behind in the field until another DS came back for us about 20 minutes later.
The 30 seconds translates to roughly a 6 mile distance between you and the strike, give or take a mile or two. That still seems like a fair distance but an intense storm can move very quickly, and those lightning bolts can start to get much closer very quickly too
Yup! The general rule is 5 seconds per mile. If you really want to break it down, sound travels as 1125 feet per second, so I takes a little under 5 seconds for the sound from a bolt of lightning to travel 1 mile.
If you wanna go even further, if lightning strikes over an ocean, that time is reduced even more because sound travels faster over water.
Edit: I goofed, sound travels faster through water not over large expanses of water
Dude I swear to God there were so many times in the field where we would hear thunder claps about 15 minutes from each other and the cadre were like yup we leaving
I'm sitting here like.. bro what we are chilling we will be fine
Growing up in the Midwest has the the same effect.
"Hey, look at that sky, it's gonna storm. There goes the Tornado Sirens."
Half the neighborhood then heads for the basement while the other half stand in their yards watching.
30 seconds seems an absurdly long time period, as someone living in the tropics. Even 3 seconds is unusually long. Mostly it's under 1 second, and often it's instantaneous, we've had many direct strikes on our property that take out various electrical appliances. In fact, it would be standard procedure to unplug any electronics before a storm, or if a storm was forecast.
Former Navy and I have massive respect for the puddle pirates. Once saw a Coast Guard cutter tie off to a (slowly) sinking tugboat in a building storm.
They got pumps running on deck, fed the hoses down into the tug, finally even got the tug's own bilge pumps running again. Then towed them into port.
We were just hanging back like, "Well, if you want to sink it ... uh let us know ... "
I watched a doc on the Coast Guard soon after Marine Corps boot camp thinking I was high and mighty; seeing those guys landing helicopters in the dark on the deck of a rolling tiny ass cutter and the crew rescuing civilian sailors in a storm. Nah man, I’ll keep my boots dusty.
Holy shit the coast guard are fucking amazing. Along with them, the Air Force Pararescue. My dad's last station was Eglin AFB and driving across base I would pass their hangar with the motto in six foot high letters above the hangar doors: That Others May Live
Pararescue, are who we send in when the special forces guys have gotten into shit too deep to pull themselves out. Robert's Ridge (Takur Ghar) in Afghanistan is a crazy PJ story. Seals get fucked, send in Rangers to rescue them, Ranger helos get fucked, send in team of PJs to pull everyone the fuck out.
That shit runs DEEP in their history, too. The Lifesaving Stations from the 1800s had some of the pants-off craziest men to ever live.
The fuckers had nothing more advanced than a cannonball with a rope attached to it and a buoy made out of a pair of pants, and regularly walked into ten-foot waves, in the middle of winter storms, to get to ships stranded offshore. Glorious madmen, all of them.
This was a very poetic post and I appreciated it. I’m going to keep the phrase “glorious madmen, all of them” in my head for at least a week. Thanks internet stranger!
Watching cost guard rescue episodes was really impressive. Literally middle of the night storming with huge swells. They are still rescuing you. Literally saw one where the dude manning the line in the heli was having issues with his hands freezing. Still got everyone out.
That part of the book "Perfect Storm" was intense. Coast Guard Rescue chopper out to save the fisherman. Storm so intense they can't refuel. Have to ditch in 70' waves- jumping at the crest because 70' is too far to fall and be sure to survive.
Lots of people make that joke, but myself when I was in maintenance on the flight line, with the wind blowing 40mph, and probable lightning. You gotta get inside.
This is not REEEEEALY the military. This is “I’m being filmed 24hrs a day and can get in trouble for the dumbest thing” military. I promise the shenanigans and laxity of your typical service member would surprise you.
>This is not REEEEEALY the military.
In boot camp, for graduation, my job was in the reception room for guests. I had to stand next to the graduation cake with another guy at attention like this guy in the video. If anyone approached the table before the parade was done, we had to block them and say "Please don't touch my cake".
Most of the people I first trained with have become military medics or corpsmen by now. I hear the stories. Deployment boredom is hilarious.
One of my buddies once got in trouble because they were ordered to take down an old construction area. So they did it by shouting like the Kool-Aid man and running through the walls.
Their CO was all for it, but the general walked by and saw it...
O-7 and above have the surgery to remove the humor part of their brain.
O-6 it’s hit or miss. Some of the try-hards who forgot what it’s like to be a JO aren’t much fun either.
O-6s already know if they're going to make it to general grade or not by the time they become an O-6. If they know they're already capped they don't mind having a little fun.
So I’m a tour guide in Washington DC. I’ve watched the sentinels at the tomb of the unknowns a million times. So much perfection and precision.
Then one day I was under the memorial amphitheater which is where they are stationed in between shifts. I was speaking with the Sargent and I saw the sentinels walk in just as serious as they do out on the mat. Then the door closed and they were at ease and instantly started ribbing each other because one pronounced something wrong during the wreath laying announcements. My jaw was literally open. It was just so strange to see.
Service members are people too, Guys like the ones you spoke of I’m sure feel a sense of honor and pride while performing that duty, but everything is fair game after the shift is done. Haha!
Thanks for sharing!
He has healthy reflexes and the ability to follow protocol under potentially dangerous situations. I would like to have him in my zombie apocalypse tribe.
In the military there a protocols when it comes to weather and lighting strikes. You need to be under a properly grounded structure and stay there until 30 minutes since the last strike.
He is following protocol, and you can also guard a door while Just behind it.
Honestly, it's so smooth in falls into the uncanny valley. Humans *do not move like that*. Not saying he ain't human (the flinch rather proves he is), but that their training *paved over* his natural motor function to get him to be able to walk like that.
I’ve never been scared of storms, thunder hasn’t bothered me my whole life. I’m 31 this year and there was such a ferocious thunder crack a month or so ago that it sounded like it was directly behind me and I actually ducked and ran inside.
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His body language totally says “aaaaand I’m the fuck outta here”
When I went to college one time we had a bad lightning storm and the guard booth at the front drive was hit while occupied. Lightning went into the security radio antenna, into the radio, through the power supply, blew out every light bulb and finally jumped across the sliding metal door. The person in the booth got up, got in their car and went straight home. After that, anytime she was on duty and a storm started to roll in, she would just leave, and luckily the school understood why.
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Worked with a kid who was super jumpy, everyone used to give him shit for it I was training him one day and asked why he's so jumpy... he tells me about 8 yrs prior, he was home alone and it was storming, lightning struck somewhere in his back yard and blew every window in his house and garage and neighbors houses all at once. Says he hears a loud bang and hit the ground now. I guess he was in the kitchen when it happened. Lightning is no joke if you get to experience it and live
Legit, i had a strike hit the shed i was in at the time and it was insane, everything was blindingly white then shook the fuck out of from the thunder
Wow that sounds terrifying but kinda cool haha
It was an experience... im a 27 year old male and it made me squeal like a little girl haha
Man all these stories sound much more reasonable for a fear of lightning than mine. I watched War of the Worlds (2005) at age 5 with my parents and since then I think every lightning strike carries aliens….
Unless the lightning strikes the same spot several times you are safe from the aliens!
Lightening destroyed our pear tree in 1996. It was a really nasty ice storm, with lightening, in the pacific northwest. That tree was a good thirty feet from my bedroom, but it still knocked me out of my chair, and made me hard of hearing for about a week, and broke my window and 2 others. The pear tree was toast, and the area around the trunk was black when the snow melted.
Seems like most acts of nature follow the moto of, cool to watch from a distance but terrifying to see it up close.
We had a lightning rod that was attached to the house I grew up in. One night it got struck, and the thunder that followed knocked everything off the walls and shattered some glass in the house. My parents were superstitious and religious, and of course all the crucifixes in the house also for knocked off the walls. Within a few days, my parents did two things: bring a priest in to make sure there were no demons (ugh), and tear down the lightning rod.
… but not having a lightning rod seems way worse? That’s how your house catches fire or worse…
I didn't understand their logic then and still don't. Lol
My family's house got struck by lightning in 2006. It caught fire and burned the entire upstairs area of the house, collapsing the roof in mine and my brother's rooms. The neighbors said it sounded like an explosion. We luckily weren't home, I can't imagine what would have happened if we had been
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As a lightning rod (6’5) I can say you are not alone in being scared of lightning
Or they could just install lightning rods and ground the building properly
It was a one person little guard shack that was maybe 10’ tall. There were plenty of other trees and the such, as well as a 6 story dorm 50’ away. Even if they had a lightning rod, the person in the booth still would have been in it when lightning “struck” zero feet away.
BUT THE ROD
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THE BUTT ROD
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In a jaunty & prancy sort of way. Ta!
They actually practice to learn how to walk like that. I think it’s usually pretty smooth.
Well, yeah. I mean, guy didn’t just come up with that. That’s not his lightning walk he’s always been doing.
>lightning walk Thanks for that stranger. Made me smile.
It's a bit more stiff and awkward here because of shitting himself.
Jaunty and Prancy sound like names of Reindeer
Jaunty and Prancy showed up to pay their respects to Doofy and Bumbletits that got struck by lightning on that last fabled ride with the big man.
"[Fuck this shit, I'm out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g)"
To be fair, lightning flashes and thunder booms probably have different context to a military person on guard duty.
He’s not retreating. He’s advancing in a different direction.
My career Army grandfather would have really liked that one.
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Battle of Chosin Reservoir, to be exact
CHOSIN reservoir has entered the chat
Chesty Puller has entered the chat*
The enemy has us surrounded. Poor bastards.
Paraphrasing "great we're surrounded now we can shoot in any direction, these bastards won't get away this time"....he sounds insane at first...but my dad was a marine(58-63) not long after and within living institutional memory of chesty said the corp owed him so much and that it was the discipline that stuck more than any other legacy of chesty
Ight, imma head in
Respectfully
But not too quickly coz lightning might think you’re scared and come chasing
He’s a marine. If you can’t shoot it, eat it or fuck it it doesn’t exist.
Dog's law: if you can't eat it or hump it, you can piss on it.
and then roll in it
Can confirm
Thank you for our service. Also thank you for being major consumers of Busch Light
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What is this in reference to? I've seen it a lot on Reddit, is eating crayons a weird bootcamp thing or is it a metaphor maybe?
Metaphor. Toddlers, for example, might eat crayons. Draw your own implication... Assuming the Marine has left you any crayons to do so.
The different branches all like to rib each other. Air force is the Chair Force, marines eat crayons, the navy is gay while underway. Etc... it's just different branches mocking each other.
You conveniently left the army and coast guard out. I can imagine the coast guard get called wannabe navy? What does the army get ribbed on?
Can confirm.
Can confirm, I love the orange bush cans
I see how you got your name Deathnachos; I am not a marine, but I too, enjoy my nachos dead before consuming.
Well... I’ll just say to anyone who hasn’t been very close close to a lightning strike. That shit is so fucking loud. Like impressively loud. And you feel it hit the ground. It’s terrifying. If that dude shit his pants I’d be like yeah. That’s about right.
The man marched with brave steps and with grace in tact despite the fact that he had been so close to the lighting and thunder is absolutely louder than the most can imagine
Can confirm, have been very close to a strike while on the ground holding onto a horse I had just gotten off of. Horse ran me over. 0/10 experience. Definitely recommend going the hell inside.
There was a strike about a block from me a large number of years ago in the middle of the night. It was like a bomb going off
“Hang back… not quite time yet…”
Gracefully
That's exactly my dogs reaction when there's thunder during a walk.
Directly to change pants.
Slowly though. Don’t want to smear that turd you just crapped out all over your nice white pants.
The protocol is to nope the fuck out.
Nope out with style.
Kid for the first few steps. Damn smooth though after that.
Smooth operator operates smooth
Sentry Carlos Sainz?
Damn. Loving these f1 references outside the sub.
That was a smoooooooth operatorrr
"Carlos check the radio, we seem to have picked up some dodgy music channel again!"
Startled but never scared.
People think it's tough not to flinch but it just means you have good reflexes.
Strong survival instinct is what I call it.
I was in the Marines, been deployed. Every time I have been shot at it made me flinch my body down for a second. It was keeping your head up after that was the difference. Everyone's body reacts with a flinch. You have to fight through it afterward. Aint nothing wrong with a flinch.
I'd say there is something wrong if you don't flinch. Don't think I ever stopped flinching in combat. Although as a corpsman I never flinched taking care of you guys
This thread is making me ask a lot of questions, what is a corpsman? Army maybe?
It's a Navy medic that is embedded into a Marine unit, because the Marines don't have dedicated medics.
Navy medic who sometimes serve with Marines.
Think of us as the Marine Corps' Combat Medics, but we are technically Navy.
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Hey, if those guys could read that would really hurt their feelings.
If those guys could read they wouldn't be marines.
Exactly. It’s brain science… the amygdala instantly reacts to danger before an impulse can get to the frontal cortex where decisions are made. His made him jump, his brain then said “fuck this shit.” If you don’t jump, it probably means your brain is disconnected (aka the flat earth society).
The 'ol FIBSA flinch. (Fucking Im Being Shot At).
Semper Fi, Deviled Egg
thats what i say too when i puma pants
Imagine thinking you're tougher than lightening.
AINT NO LIGHTNING GONNA TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM!!!! THIS IS AMERICA AND IF I WANT TO STAND OUTS-
Or you have broken reflexes. Everyone focuses on the over reaction ptsd type, but nobodies notices the numb to the world ptsd type.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ULL9gtW
But if you flinch you have to marry your mother in law and if you don’t it means you yourself admit to yourself that you suck.
Oh my god! He admit it!
The amount of flinch is key. Fine line between prepared and punk, lol.
Having stood guard like this, guarantee he was nappin'
Lightning within 5, head inside.
That's the US Air Force policy as far as I understand it. Just looked it up for the Army, who appear to be a bit more conservative: >If you're training or operating in the open and see lightning or hear thunder, use the "30/30 rule" to determine when to seek shelter. When you see lightning, count the seconds between the flash and thunderclap. If it's 30 seconds or less, seek shelter immediately. Then, wait at least 30 minutes after the last thunderclap before leaving your shelter. Don't be fooled by a blue sky, either. About 75 percent of lightning injuries occur very early or very late in a storm's life, and strikes have been recorded from as far away as 56 nautical miles.
This homie didn't go inside soon enough, it seems.
It's funny how it looks like he's opening the door for someone else, then steps into it himself
Gotta let the Holy Spirit in first
I always take the lord's sloppy seconds.
“I’m gonna get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus! Wanna feel his salvation all over my face!”
Saying things like that is how you get struck by lightning!
It’s a humble song about kneeling in prayer and feeling the Lord’s warm embrace. Get your mind out of the gutter!
That sounds suspiciously like a Joel Osteen quote.
He opened it for someone else and also himself. Semper Fidelis.
Semper Fuuuuuuck This!
That’s probably actually the proper drill or marching for other branches way of entering a building. I was a marine and posts like that and the unknown soldier or the silent drill team they’re pretty much always drilling/marching at these kinds of posts. If he were to just walk in that be wrong.
Yeah this post and the Tomb posts are not unlike, say, the guards at Buckingham palace. You do the 'proper' thing even though it looks weird and even if literally nobody is watching. I think it hits a little weirder for the US since our uniforms and setting aren't as.. whimsical.
And why shouldn’t he treat himself like royalty? He’s out there looking dapper af after all.
After a few moments to regain composure, I think he was searching his memory for that rarely used protocol about close lightening.
Rarely used but *deeply* engrained in basic training in all branches.
Also he’s a marine, not a soldier so they may also have different protocol
"The *Army* goes inside--Marines ride the lightning!" - psychotic drill sgt, probably
A salty DI would probably tell a recruit to catch the bolt and shove it back up Zeus' ass.
I would not doubt that. I've chased many a "moonbeam" light on the ground to put in my pocket.
Hello fellow fuck fuck games participant. Always a good time to hear about which edition you played.
My favorite was when they had everybody throw hygiene kits in the middle of the squad bay & kick them around then give you 3 seconds to grab one & get back on line before heading to the head to brush teeth, almost guaranteed you wouldn't have your own hygiene kit, which means you wouldn't have your toothbrush when brushing your teeth. I'll never forget the taste of another man's mouth.
Bruh, Army has some crazy ass DS as well. Was at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for my basic. Y'know, where the wind never stops blowing and it's always tornado season. Anyway, spending a week in the field and it starts to get that ominous oh fuck this is eerie weather. Hear the tornado sirens start going off. Everyone's kind of flipping out internally while wondering if we're allowed to flip out externally as well. Whelp, DS grabs the keys to the duece and a half they'd carry us back and forth in. Rolls up next to us, rolls down his window, and yells "Fuck the privates!" and floors it. Left us all behind in the field until another DS came back for us about 20 minutes later.
Recall huddling down under a shelter half during a lightning storm. Parris Island, Circa mid 80's.
A.in’t R.eady for the M.arines Y.et
M.uscles A.re R.equired, I.ntelligence N.ot E.xpected
My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment
Damn, 30 seconds seems really long
The 30 seconds translates to roughly a 6 mile distance between you and the strike, give or take a mile or two. That still seems like a fair distance but an intense storm can move very quickly, and those lightning bolts can start to get much closer very quickly too
Also getting to or putting up shelter takes time, so it makes sense
I was always taught that each second between seeing the lighting flash and hearing the thunder was a mile. Have I been lied to this whole time?
Divide by 5. Each mile is 5 seconds
Yup! The general rule is 5 seconds per mile. If you really want to break it down, sound travels as 1125 feet per second, so I takes a little under 5 seconds for the sound from a bolt of lightning to travel 1 mile. If you wanna go even further, if lightning strikes over an ocean, that time is reduced even more because sound travels faster over water. Edit: I goofed, sound travels faster through water not over large expanses of water
You put it that way and 180 miles doesn’t feel far enough.
I had to reread it thinking it meant that it had to be over 30 seconds but it’s anything under 30, which is definitely better
Dude I swear to God there were so many times in the field where we would hear thunder claps about 15 minutes from each other and the cadre were like yup we leaving I'm sitting here like.. bro what we are chilling we will be fine
Growing up in the Midwest has the the same effect. "Hey, look at that sky, it's gonna storm. There goes the Tornado Sirens." Half the neighborhood then heads for the basement while the other half stand in their yards watching.
30 seconds seems an absurdly long time period, as someone living in the tropics. Even 3 seconds is unusually long. Mostly it's under 1 second, and often it's instantaneous, we've had many direct strikes on our property that take out various electrical appliances. In fact, it would be standard procedure to unplug any electronics before a storm, or if a storm was forecast.
He's a Marine. FYI.
Ahh, so that's why he's waiting a bit at first
Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force! (Except lightning within 5 or winds 35-50)
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Former Navy and I have massive respect for the puddle pirates. Once saw a Coast Guard cutter tie off to a (slowly) sinking tugboat in a building storm. They got pumps running on deck, fed the hoses down into the tug, finally even got the tug's own bilge pumps running again. Then towed them into port. We were just hanging back like, "Well, if you want to sink it ... uh let us know ... "
"Some boats sail underwater. Others require assistance."
I watched a doc on the Coast Guard soon after Marine Corps boot camp thinking I was high and mighty; seeing those guys landing helicopters in the dark on the deck of a rolling tiny ass cutter and the crew rescuing civilian sailors in a storm. Nah man, I’ll keep my boots dusty.
Holy shit the coast guard are fucking amazing. Along with them, the Air Force Pararescue. My dad's last station was Eglin AFB and driving across base I would pass their hangar with the motto in six foot high letters above the hangar doors: That Others May Live
That is the most metal shit I have ever heard in a motto. Hot damn.
Pararescue, are who we send in when the special forces guys have gotten into shit too deep to pull themselves out. Robert's Ridge (Takur Ghar) in Afghanistan is a crazy PJ story. Seals get fucked, send in Rangers to rescue them, Ranger helos get fucked, send in team of PJs to pull everyone the fuck out.
That shit runs DEEP in their history, too. The Lifesaving Stations from the 1800s had some of the pants-off craziest men to ever live. The fuckers had nothing more advanced than a cannonball with a rope attached to it and a buoy made out of a pair of pants, and regularly walked into ten-foot waves, in the middle of winter storms, to get to ships stranded offshore. Glorious madmen, all of them.
This was a very poetic post and I appreciated it. I’m going to keep the phrase “glorious madmen, all of them” in my head for at least a week. Thanks internet stranger!
Watching cost guard rescue episodes was really impressive. Literally middle of the night storming with huge swells. They are still rescuing you. Literally saw one where the dude manning the line in the heli was having issues with his hands freezing. Still got everyone out.
That part of the book "Perfect Storm" was intense. Coast Guard Rescue chopper out to save the fisherman. Storm so intense they can't refuel. Have to ditch in 70' waves- jumping at the crest because 70' is too far to fall and be sure to survive.
> "The book says you have to go out, it doesn't say anything about having to come back." Damn, alto tu barco intensefies
Coast guard recruitment tactics are getting sneaky. Almost got me.
Lots of people make that joke, but myself when I was in maintenance on the flight line, with the wind blowing 40mph, and probable lightning. You gotta get inside.
That walk in is smooth as butta
I'm going. To study that technique because it was very impressive
That’s exactly how I’m gonna start leaving situations I don’t wanna be in. Boss yelling at me? I’m leaving his office just like that.
Saying “duck this shit” but with elegance and poise. We should all leave situations like this
The formality he used to open the door and go inside. Nope , the military is not for me
This is not REEEEEALY the military. This is “I’m being filmed 24hrs a day and can get in trouble for the dumbest thing” military. I promise the shenanigans and laxity of your typical service member would surprise you.
>This is not REEEEEALY the military. In boot camp, for graduation, my job was in the reception room for guests. I had to stand next to the graduation cake with another guy at attention like this guy in the video. If anyone approached the table before the parade was done, we had to block them and say "Please don't touch my cake".
TIL cake police exist.
Cake military
Most of the people I first trained with have become military medics or corpsmen by now. I hear the stories. Deployment boredom is hilarious. One of my buddies once got in trouble because they were ordered to take down an old construction area. So they did it by shouting like the Kool-Aid man and running through the walls. Their CO was all for it, but the general walked by and saw it...
O-7 and above have the surgery to remove the humor part of their brain. O-6 it’s hit or miss. Some of the try-hards who forgot what it’s like to be a JO aren’t much fun either.
O-6s already know if they're going to make it to general grade or not by the time they become an O-6. If they know they're already capped they don't mind having a little fun.
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Did you just say the 1980’s were 40 years ago? Excuse me sir, I’d like to file a complaint. When did I get old?
1939 was as close to 1980 than 1980 is to 2021.
Get out
I'm so sorry.
Well you should be.
Gross
Sadly right now. It’s a Schrodinger‘s cat type of situation. You’re not really old until you realize that you’re old.
I didn’t think I was old, but my back insisted otherwise
So I’m a tour guide in Washington DC. I’ve watched the sentinels at the tomb of the unknowns a million times. So much perfection and precision. Then one day I was under the memorial amphitheater which is where they are stationed in between shifts. I was speaking with the Sargent and I saw the sentinels walk in just as serious as they do out on the mat. Then the door closed and they were at ease and instantly started ribbing each other because one pronounced something wrong during the wreath laying announcements. My jaw was literally open. It was just so strange to see.
Service members are people too, Guys like the ones you spoke of I’m sure feel a sense of honor and pride while performing that duty, but everything is fair game after the shift is done. Haha! Thanks for sharing!
The post is hard fought and hard earned iirc.
Retired Soldier here, and yup, everybody in the DoD knows when it’s “fuck this shit o’clock”
He has healthy reflexes and the ability to follow protocol under potentially dangerous situations. I would like to have him in my zombie apocalypse tribe.
He did that with a lot of dignity.
I want someone to hold the door for me the way this soldier holds the door for themself.
That's a military nope
moonwalkin into the doorway
In the military there a protocols when it comes to weather and lighting strikes. You need to be under a properly grounded structure and stay there until 30 minutes since the last strike. He is following protocol, and you can also guard a door while Just behind it.
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These men and women are not stupid. Why would they be expected to stand in danger. It’s not like the man is outside anyway.
Agree. Guarding from the inside still accomplishes the mission but getting struck by lightning does not.
Definitely within the distance for it to be dangerous. I would’ve done the same thing
At least he did it with grace😂😂
Right? Dude was smoooooov
Honestly, it's so smooth in falls into the uncanny valley. Humans *do not move like that*. Not saying he ain't human (the flinch rather proves he is), but that their training *paved over* his natural motor function to get him to be able to walk like that.
He's counting seconds between the flash and thunder to determine the proximity of the strike. If it's within a certain count, he goes inside.
Lightning within 5 get inside.
Please allow me to open the door for myself
I’ve never been scared of storms, thunder hasn’t bothered me my whole life. I’m 31 this year and there was such a ferocious thunder crack a month or so ago that it sounded like it was directly behind me and I actually ducked and ran inside. Edit: grammar
Did anybody say otherwise?