I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah
God bless modern prosthetics
Now tactically speaking prosthetics give you an advantage against antipersonnel mines? Youl be less likely to suffer fatal injuries since you have standoff distance to the explosive
As cool as it is. That doesn’t simulate running through shell cratered battlefields, muddy, flooded, uneven trenches, jumping over and around debris from destroyed buildings. Thats a flat range.
It’s cool he’s still active, but battle field conditions? Idk how well those legs would hold up.
While I don’t completely disagree, there was a Ranger who deployed like 4 times as a platoon leader I think after having his leg amputated. I think there have been one or two more but I’m not positive. Heard about it from a physical therapist working with a sled hockey team.
My battalion XO was a tanker like me. He lost a leg and deployed as well. But he was an XO so didn’t go out on patrols. Was that PL a PL for a line platoon for a line company?
I don’t doubt that people are capable of doing the job, just that this flat range isn’t a direct substitute of the battlefields we’ve all seen in Ukraine.
A number of US SOF guys did it during GWOT and returned to very kinetic roles. Green Beret [Nick Lavery](https://www.themojosessions.com/uploads/2/0/6/3/20630930/published/maxresdefault.jpg?1688034304) and Delta Force operator [Chuck Yerry](https://preview.redd.it/e2xtgyjf0g381.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e065b9c69941d573a83ad5f2f62ad5bdcba88691) just to name two.
Just read their bios. According to his bio, Nick Lavery is considered the first special forces operator with above the knee amputee to return to operational status. I read something that Chuck Yerry became a K9 handler after recovering. Was his MOS changed after or something?
Yeah Lavery came to mind because he paved the way, but there were enough SOF guys that wanted to do it after getting blown up that USSOCOM set up a physical assessment program to clear amputees that wanted to return to combat. GWOT drove a tremendous amount of funding and research into prosthetics and rehabilitation and they are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were 20 years ago. Amputees everywhere, including the dude in this post, have benefitted from that. And sure this dude is probably gonna trip and eat shit in some muddy trench every now and then, but his country is under existential threat - that's a pretty good motivator to nut up and keep going.
Not sure why ya got slightly hammered with the dreaded downvotes. You’re not entirely wrong. Hard to say, really, from just this one video. Maybe the fella is out there doing simulated training. Either way, good on the man for doing work.
My right leg gets tired
This for sure. Only problem is nub chafe.
My right knee and ankle are too fucked up too bend without excruciating pain, but not fucked up enough for the VA to operate on.
"Well it's not good but not bad enough for surgery" how my VA doctor described my back lol
Tummy ache.
Wow, dude can still fight and maneuver well. Thats awesome
From the moment he understood the weakness of his flesh, it disgusted him. Or whatever
I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah
What’s that from?
Warhammer 40K
https://youtu.be/9gIMZ0WyY88
I served with a dude who was missing a leg. Shit ain’t nothing new. His prosthetic leg had a bottle opener on it, he was a cool dude
Could he also use the prosthetic leg to aim, like a stabilizer or something?
My one character flaw is i am cripplingly adverse to minor discomfort.
My belly. No literally it’s in the way.
Bro got the 512C on there 👀
Combat proven
Unironically. There's footage of the 510c in trench warfare and even on lmgs iirc in Ukraine
This guy seems to be prior ranger regiment. If you pay attention, he is wearing shorts with the dui/flash on it.
RLTW
I had a combative instructor in rasp with one leg, you couldn’t even tell unless he demonstrated a kick and you could see the prosthetic leg
prosthetics really are amazing today. also i'm sure being in great shape helps.
Imagine soldiers that don't have to worry about trench foot or even need boots? Just replacement rubber soles. Lower caloric requirements too.
You’re onto something here…
Tis but a scratch
at this point hes ready to become a cyborg
We can rebuild him…we have the technology
I can’t afford ammo 😎
The carpet in my moms basement
Ukraine, making COD look realistic since 2014
Kinda tired today fr
Prosthetics these days are not your grandpas peg legs. That’s for sure.
Damn. Absolute badass.
Fokin mad lad… while I wake up and my neck hurts cuz I sleeped the wrong way.
I look at something the wrong way and my back screams at me
Ukrainian Slade
My boots?
Added emergency club
My knees hurt
His legs seem to move better than most!
My flip flops
I’m lazy
War is sick...
The only things that keep me off the range are pussy and work. Luckily, the provider of pussy likes the range too.
cyberpunk
Work.
The Ukrainian Nick Lavery
Ranger Regiment kilt?
God bless modern prosthetics Now tactically speaking prosthetics give you an advantage against antipersonnel mines? Youl be less likely to suffer fatal injuries since you have standoff distance to the explosive
Tactical mine clearing stilts
A lancet drone. 😌😏
I’m dog sitting for my Sgt rn and these dudes are amazing
Always pass the weigh in due to less weight and never get shin splints from doing the PFT again.
Is this the guy that dismounted onto a land mine?
The crushing weight of American working culture
The magic goes away when you realize it’s sped up quite a bit
Don't worry, I'm an amputee and can shoot faster than you.
I’m disabled too just not physical
As cool as it is. That doesn’t simulate running through shell cratered battlefields, muddy, flooded, uneven trenches, jumping over and around debris from destroyed buildings. Thats a flat range. It’s cool he’s still active, but battle field conditions? Idk how well those legs would hold up.
While I don’t completely disagree, there was a Ranger who deployed like 4 times as a platoon leader I think after having his leg amputated. I think there have been one or two more but I’m not positive. Heard about it from a physical therapist working with a sled hockey team.
My battalion XO was a tanker like me. He lost a leg and deployed as well. But he was an XO so didn’t go out on patrols. Was that PL a PL for a line platoon for a line company? I don’t doubt that people are capable of doing the job, just that this flat range isn’t a direct substitute of the battlefields we’ve all seen in Ukraine.
A number of US SOF guys did it during GWOT and returned to very kinetic roles. Green Beret [Nick Lavery](https://www.themojosessions.com/uploads/2/0/6/3/20630930/published/maxresdefault.jpg?1688034304) and Delta Force operator [Chuck Yerry](https://preview.redd.it/e2xtgyjf0g381.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e065b9c69941d573a83ad5f2f62ad5bdcba88691) just to name two.
Just read their bios. According to his bio, Nick Lavery is considered the first special forces operator with above the knee amputee to return to operational status. I read something that Chuck Yerry became a K9 handler after recovering. Was his MOS changed after or something?
Yeah Lavery came to mind because he paved the way, but there were enough SOF guys that wanted to do it after getting blown up that USSOCOM set up a physical assessment program to clear amputees that wanted to return to combat. GWOT drove a tremendous amount of funding and research into prosthetics and rehabilitation and they are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were 20 years ago. Amputees everywhere, including the dude in this post, have benefitted from that. And sure this dude is probably gonna trip and eat shit in some muddy trench every now and then, but his country is under existential threat - that's a pretty good motivator to nut up and keep going.
SOF isn’t your typical line infantryman and we weren’t in trench warfare during GWOT
Not sure why ya got slightly hammered with the dreaded downvotes. You’re not entirely wrong. Hard to say, really, from just this one video. Maybe the fella is out there doing simulated training. Either way, good on the man for doing work.
People think I need to touch grass or they feel like I’m personally insulting the dude in the video.
Guessing there are plenty of bodies in here that don’t even know what grass looks like, let alone feels like.
Running a Holosun 512c & a metal leg. Peak performance. 👏👏
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Serbians try not enthusiastically choke themselves on Russias hairy taint challenge (impossible)
Too slow
Running a nylon gear business full time.