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Roy Benavidez In 1965 he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam and the doctors told him he would never walk again. quote:Getting out of bed at night (against doctors orders), Benavidez would crawl using his elbows and chin to a wall near his bedside and (with the encouragement of his fellow patients, many of whom were permanently paralyzed and/or missing limbs), he would prop himself against the wall and attempt to lift himself unaided, starting by wiggling his toes, then his feet, and then eventually (after several months of excruciating practice that by his own admission often left him in tears) pushing himself up the wall with his ankles and legs.[1] After over a year of hospitalization, Benavidez walked out of the hospital in July 1966, with his wife at his side, determined to return to combat in Vietnam. And after all that he then went on to complete loving Special Forces training. By 1968 he was back in Vietnam with Special Forces as part of the Studies and Observation Group(SOG), a unit which was featured in Call of Duty:BlacK Ops. Here's his Medal of Honor citation: quote:Master Sergeant (then Staff Sergeant) Roy P. BENAVIDEZ United States Army, distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam. Dude received enough injuries to kill like 10 people yet somehow he didn't die. People often comment on how he looks fat for a Special Forces soldier. That picture was taken in 1981 after he had already left the army and had been in and out of hospitals for years to fix all those injuries he received on May 2, 1968.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 15:15 |
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# ¿ May 23, 2024 16:23 |
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that seems like a lot of potentially dead or critically injured people if somebody wrecks or loses control. I definitely wouldn't be standing on the side of the road like that.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 00:02 |
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Dingleberry Jones posted:The craziest/saddest videos linked to those nuclear bomb videos are the ones that show, in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear tests, soldiers and workers inspecting things wearing only shorts and boots. I'm guessing no one knew exactly how dangerous it was to be doing that without protective gear, but still. My grandpa was one of the soldiers involved in some of the nuclear tests though I think him and his unit just watched from a certain distance away. He died in 1992 at age 64 from colon cancer, he always wondered if him developing cancer was due to his involvement in the nuclear tests. Wonder how many other soldiers/workers ended up having cancer? It could be unrelated to the tests but he's the only person in my family tree that has had cancer, that we know of in the 1900's anyway. People in my family normally live to their 80's/90's
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# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 19:48 |
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Are you guys blind? there's at least 6 of them
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2014 09:13 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Do gators only travel via golf course in Florida, or is all of Florida a golf course? You should probably just assume every fresh body of water you see in Florida has at least one gator in it. While flying over Florida it doesn't even look like a single landmass there's so much water everywhere.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2020 20:51 |
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# ¿ May 23, 2024 16:23 |
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fartknocker posted:His Wikipedia page has a funny picture of him too: My dad was a career Special Forces soldier, very few of them look like action stars. Most of them just look like everyday dudes.
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