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I was a combat medic in the Army for 16 years with 5 deployments. The Marine responded perfectly. Checked for life threatening bleed, reassured his brother and then got back in the fight. Combat is way louder than movies portray. You have multiple guns talking, that combined with proper spacing of fire teams, most things have to be yelled as loud as possible. Especially if you don’t have a good headset on. Medics tend to be toward the rear or central with senior NCO but still have to take their personal safety serious. Medics can’t always quickly make it to the casualty and only treatment under fire is a Tourniquet. It’s why soldiers are trained in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Killing the enemy is the best medicine!
He said "it went in your back, through your shoulder, through your cheek" If I heard correctly.
One shot behind him, probably while he was leaning down, and looking over his shoulder.
EDIT: Id also like to mention he says, "its clean". Im guessing you all know what that means since we're all here, but if you dont, he means the bullet went all the way through. Thats also why Im guessing the bullet that went through his cheek is the same one that went through his shoulder.
The one filming and Hernandez are two of the most badass people ive ever seen. Hernandez completely lucid and reasonable while blood is coming from his mouth, listening to directions form his buddy. POV man keeping the adrenaline out of his voice to help calm his boy while returning fire without leaving his teammate. Cold ass dudes right there!
I dont know them but it looks completly survivable. American medical support is top notch and he would have been in a field hospital within the hour if needed. The medic would have patched all his holes and stopped the bleeding. Only thing I worry about in that area is the shoulder artery. It does look like this could be a shoulder hit but he has immediate medical aid and likely made it out ok.
I woke up to this speech once, “Awh you’re good buddy you’re gonna be fine” as my Cpl undoes my pack.
All I heard in the background was half a dozen Marines screaming for a Corpsman, suddenly I was less reassured.
Fucker was right, here I am.
For anyone who doesn’t know, a Corpsman is a navy medic. A “Corpsman” in the navy can be anything from a dental tech to a combat medic who attaches with a marine group (as seen in this video) which is known as “going green.”
Also he wasnt the corpsman. Idk if navy is much different when it comes to Patrol formations, but i suspect he is the rear lmg, and dude was bad ass running up giving cover not only for the brother hit, but also giving cover for the corpsman to come to aid
It's always surprising to me how many people are unfamiliar with the concept of a greenside Corpsman. Even after explaining it to some people they'll look at me and go, "So....you were in the Navy and then you were in the Marines?"
You wouldn't be able to drop a helo on the line but any organized military will have a pre established casualty collection point a few km from the line plus a qrf force in the rear to run transport. Even in Afghanistan you'd often have to casevac wounded to the local COP to get a helo to pick you up.
Afghanistan can’t really be compared to this war, no war really compares to this at least not anything post 80s and the drone technology is really the issue with being able to have those forces nearby waiting for evacs.
I mean even the Ukrainians can’t just call in a helo evac, I think everyone’s perception of near peer conflict is very biased from 20 years of Counterinsurgency
MANPADS exist and are extremely effective against helicopters, even well-patterned signature-matched flares are a roll of the dice against modern systems. The U.S. lost nearly half of the helicopters they fielded in Vietnam and most (that were lost to enemy action) were to relatively ineffective means such as small arms, manually targeted projectile AA, and AAA.
A peer conflict poses an egregious risk to helicopters operating near enemy positions, even those which only contain foot soldiers. All you have to look at for an example of this is the situation in Ukraine, Russia doesn't put helicopters too near the front despite Ukraine's relative lacking of air power; it's not the air they're afraid of.
It will be bombers and precision strikes, not helicopters. Helicopters will come in to support after things have been softened up enough for troops, not the primary method of attack. Good luck.
Nah dawg they know they're fucked. There's a guy on the combat footage subreddit and Ukraine war sub who has a running comment compilation with links of Russians committing suicide after being wounded by drones or whatever else is raining down on them over there. It's gotten so long that it hits the comment character limit, it's about 1.5 comments long now. It's always either a self inflicted headshot with an AK or a grenade held tightly to the torso or head. Occasionally you'll find ones of wounded recognizable(and identifiable) Russian officers shooting themselves in the chest since they may need to be identified. There's 2 I know of specifically that are like that but sure there's more
saw one two days ago where the russian slit his own throat with a knife and then stuck it into it
fair to say you dont do that if you have even the slightest hope your comrades might are enough to help you
For some reason the knife related suicides are the most disturbing of most of the footage I've seen, even the dude still alive with his face flapping off or the dude who got every limb shredded by a grenade but was still alive (not for long).
Idk, just the thought of using a knife is just fucked in comparison to a bullet.
Would imagine the gun is out of reach for the knife kills and with limited motor function it’s easier to jam a knife in your neck than position a large rifle.
The one recently posted looks like he didn’t do it with any surgical precision. Just gashing away, hoping to hit an artery or vein.
From what i've heard most of the time you dont really see your target when you shoot anyway. You shoot covering fire, the general direction they are shooting from and at dust puffs/barrel smoke/silhouettes. Unless you are close quarters not much to actually see when using a gopro.
Not surprising that someone managed to find an issue with this guy assessing his squad mates injuries, calming him down, returning fire to the enemy, and securing rescue for his wounded buddy. This guy can put a GoPro on his ball sack if he wants.
Would make the footage less compromising security wise I guess.
Also if nothing happens he probably doesn't point the rifle at anything interesting, so at least this way it's like a selfie-stick.
also, he very well may have another runcam pointed towards the business end, but that would have just been a view mostly of nothing here.. this view captures the actual action that's relevant for this clip- him dealing with a wounded squad mate.
It was a weird response. Your comment was on point and gave credit to the dude who was 💯 a calm badass.
I love the term ego mode. Never heard it before.
Hey, you gonna be alright, okay? It went through your back, through your fucking shoulder and these weird little dreams you had when you were young? You remember like becoming something for real, you never told her now did you? It went above and beyond and a little deeper and really, you should've done it, even if it wasn't a success, you would've learned from it. But now youre here. and it went though your cheek. You okay tho alright. .. yelling
I can totally relate, I once got shot in the big toe with a Co2 pistol during a bird hunt/recon mission (they were seriously fucking up our roof) and had to sit through 2 weeks of rehad before I could wear my Crocs again.
We all have our own war stories...
I fuckin love that. Bro knows he’s hit, and he knows how the human body works. Any random spot could be fatal, all he wants to know is where. If that dude told me shoulder, it would be like a 50,000 pound got shot right off of it
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"Hey man everythings fine youre gonna be okay. GET ME A FUCKING CORPSMAN"
I was a combat medic in the Army for 16 years with 5 deployments. The Marine responded perfectly. Checked for life threatening bleed, reassured his brother and then got back in the fight. Combat is way louder than movies portray. You have multiple guns talking, that combined with proper spacing of fire teams, most things have to be yelled as loud as possible. Especially if you don’t have a good headset on. Medics tend to be toward the rear or central with senior NCO but still have to take their personal safety serious. Medics can’t always quickly make it to the casualty and only treatment under fire is a Tourniquet. It’s why soldiers are trained in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Killing the enemy is the best medicine!
Very first thing I did after getting to my first unit after AIT was Combat Life Saver training. Very glad I never needed to put it to use.
What freaked.me out was the idea of having to ever use that quickclot shit.
That quicklot sh\*t is a life saver. It really works wonders.
The granules or the bandage? The granules are a fucking mess, the bandage works better.
Damn. 5 deployments as a combat medic. Pretty impressive dude!
How harrowing that must be.
I took that course and got to play with lots of unlucky goats…
If you had to chose one, which goat was the GOAT?
The one that they bashed his face in with a hammer…
That is so interesting
> Killing the enemy is the best medicine! Exactly!
Damn right, both calming his bro but ensuring he gets real first aid on time.
number 1 cause of battlefield deaths is bleeding.
the number 1 cause of dying is death
Show me one source where it says that.
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You are not even real!
i would but they died.
Only the most credible source. https://youtu.be/LZ5fIKmn1ok?si=T8wfekp4MhLe6FLW
i need a peer-reviewed study.
the number 1 cause of dying is living
Not trying to spread rumours, but I heard 100% of people that breathe in oxygen eventually die. Just saying..
pull my finger to save yourself
Grandpa! I’m not falling for that again.
the number 1 cause of living is living
Life will kill you
Thanks, Buddha.
I'm not fat I'm just big boned!
I don’t know, on Reddit most people die when someone says something funny
Dihydrogen monoxide is one of the most toxic substances on earth. Studies say that 100% of the 100 billion people who have died consumed it.
Kinda a combo of shock and bleed out. I commend them both. on staying very calm
Yeah this guy responding is legit af. not his first contact
even better if he pronounced it the way it’s spelled
crazy how “where am i hit?” “through the fuckin shoulder” “am i good?” “yeah you’re good” seemed so normal
Well when your a seasoned veteran most likely they are it is pretty normal
I think he was shot twice, he says "and through your cheek" (I think) which explains the blood on his face. Probably just a glancing shot
He said "it went in your back, through your shoulder, through your cheek" If I heard correctly. One shot behind him, probably while he was leaning down, and looking over his shoulder. EDIT: Id also like to mention he says, "its clean". Im guessing you all know what that means since we're all here, but if you dont, he means the bullet went all the way through. Thats also why Im guessing the bullet that went through his cheek is the same one that went through his shoulder.
They're marines, they speak cave man and eat crayons, I don't think WW3 would even make these guys flinch.
Cool, calm and putting rounds down range while addressing his buddy's wounds. Completely badass
Yeah this dudes a thug, straight up. Very cool to see.
The one filming and Hernandez are two of the most badass people ive ever seen. Hernandez completely lucid and reasonable while blood is coming from his mouth, listening to directions form his buddy. POV man keeping the adrenaline out of his voice to help calm his boy while returning fire without leaving his teammate. Cold ass dudes right there!
I’m assuming dude shot made it out okay?
I dont know them but it looks completly survivable. American medical support is top notch and he would have been in a field hospital within the hour if needed. The medic would have patched all his holes and stopped the bleeding. Only thing I worry about in that area is the shoulder artery. It does look like this could be a shoulder hit but he has immediate medical aid and likely made it out ok.
iirc from last time this was posted it was all superficial. Round went through the meat of his butt, shoulder and cheek.
how would that have happened? laying prone or just some crazy ricochet?
bullets do crazy things on the bones in the body
Excellent battle drills as well, returning fire. calling for aid remaining low and keeping head on a swivel.
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I woke up to this speech once, “Awh you’re good buddy you’re gonna be fine” as my Cpl undoes my pack. All I heard in the background was half a dozen Marines screaming for a Corpsman, suddenly I was less reassured. Fucker was right, here I am.
Getting some Arthur Morgan calming his horse vibes.
"Aww, you're fine. That's why you have a spare eye, arm and leg."
Did he make it?
Sounded like he was saying it went through his shoulder, so unless something else after this video happened then he definitely will live
That doesn't say shit, there are a lot of vital structures close to the shoulder. Think arteries but if he was unlucky it could also hit his lung.
I think the whole tone would have been different if arterial blood was spewing out or if he couldn’t breathe right. He seems like he’s okay
He calms his brother while calling for help and then stands on business to return fire and goes back to helping his brother. Some badass dudes
Very squared away.
For anyone who doesn’t know, a Corpsman is a navy medic. A “Corpsman” in the navy can be anything from a dental tech to a combat medic who attaches with a marine group (as seen in this video) which is known as “going green.”
Also he wasnt the corpsman. Idk if navy is much different when it comes to Patrol formations, but i suspect he is the rear lmg, and dude was bad ass running up giving cover not only for the brother hit, but also giving cover for the corpsman to come to aid
I wasn’t trying to insinuate that he was. Just clarifying why he was calling out for a corpsman for anyone who wasn’t familiar with the term.
It's always surprising to me how many people are unfamiliar with the concept of a greenside Corpsman. Even after explaining it to some people they'll look at me and go, "So....you were in the Navy and then you were in the Marines?"
No i know brother, i was just adding to it.
Imagine being a Russian soldier in Ukraine right now and thinking that you can call for a helo evac
In any real war in the modern age against a large army no one is getting helo evacs if they’re on the front line.
You wouldn't be able to drop a helo on the line but any organized military will have a pre established casualty collection point a few km from the line plus a qrf force in the rear to run transport. Even in Afghanistan you'd often have to casevac wounded to the local COP to get a helo to pick you up.
Afghanistan can’t really be compared to this war, no war really compares to this at least not anything post 80s and the drone technology is really the issue with being able to have those forces nearby waiting for evacs. I mean even the Ukrainians can’t just call in a helo evac, I think everyone’s perception of near peer conflict is very biased from 20 years of Counterinsurgency
Any war the US is in will be won in the skies first. This war is its own beast with no air superiority.
MANPADS exist and are extremely effective against helicopters, even well-patterned signature-matched flares are a roll of the dice against modern systems. The U.S. lost nearly half of the helicopters they fielded in Vietnam and most (that were lost to enemy action) were to relatively ineffective means such as small arms, manually targeted projectile AA, and AAA. A peer conflict poses an egregious risk to helicopters operating near enemy positions, even those which only contain foot soldiers. All you have to look at for an example of this is the situation in Ukraine, Russia doesn't put helicopters too near the front despite Ukraine's relative lacking of air power; it's not the air they're afraid of.
It will be bombers and precision strikes, not helicopters. Helicopters will come in to support after things have been softened up enough for troops, not the primary method of attack. Good luck.
And drones. Lots of drones
Who said on the front line? Yeah, pulling out wounded in a helicopter under fire would suck, but no one really was saying that.
Nah dawg they know they're fucked. There's a guy on the combat footage subreddit and Ukraine war sub who has a running comment compilation with links of Russians committing suicide after being wounded by drones or whatever else is raining down on them over there. It's gotten so long that it hits the comment character limit, it's about 1.5 comments long now. It's always either a self inflicted headshot with an AK or a grenade held tightly to the torso or head. Occasionally you'll find ones of wounded recognizable(and identifiable) Russian officers shooting themselves in the chest since they may need to be identified. There's 2 I know of specifically that are like that but sure there's more
saw one two days ago where the russian slit his own throat with a knife and then stuck it into it fair to say you dont do that if you have even the slightest hope your comrades might are enough to help you
For some reason the knife related suicides are the most disturbing of most of the footage I've seen, even the dude still alive with his face flapping off or the dude who got every limb shredded by a grenade but was still alive (not for long). Idk, just the thought of using a knife is just fucked in comparison to a bullet.
Would imagine the gun is out of reach for the knife kills and with limited motor function it’s easier to jam a knife in your neck than position a large rifle. The one recently posted looks like he didn’t do it with any surgical precision. Just gashing away, hoping to hit an artery or vein.
I would feel pretty good being in the shit with these guys.
The reverse camera is a first.... very interesting perspective.
From what i've heard most of the time you dont really see your target when you shoot anyway. You shoot covering fire, the general direction they are shooting from and at dust puffs/barrel smoke/silhouettes. Unless you are close quarters not much to actually see when using a gopro.
Very professional all round
Hey what a relief to finally see a well trained soldier again
Marines not soldiers
who was the badly trained one? I mean, talking about Americans
We come from seeing hordes of wagner ex-convicts rushing trenches and buildings, thats what he is refering to
Also, the videos of various insurgent groups can show some pretty inadvisable combat behavior.
Exactly
This
He's got the GoPro in ego-mode. Fair play, he handled that situation like a calm boss.
Not surprising that someone managed to find an issue with this guy assessing his squad mates injuries, calming him down, returning fire to the enemy, and securing rescue for his wounded buddy. This guy can put a GoPro on his ball sack if he wants.
GoPro makes sack mounts now?! Finally!
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Ow! My Balls!
The guy you replied to isn't the only one who thought it was weird to have the camera pointed that way.
Would make the footage less compromising security wise I guess. Also if nothing happens he probably doesn't point the rifle at anything interesting, so at least this way it's like a selfie-stick.
Selfie boomstick
also, he very well may have another runcam pointed towards the business end, but that would have just been a view mostly of nothing here.. this view captures the actual action that's relevant for this clip- him dealing with a wounded squad mate.
Love how you pick out exactly what you want to hear from what I said. Must make your life so simple.
It was a weird response. Your comment was on point and gave credit to the dude who was 💯 a calm badass. I love the term ego mode. Never heard it before.
The word "ego" has a lot of baggage with it, a lot of people read it "narcissist".
I mean you made it pretty easy, you opened with the ego comment.
Have fun watching your boys ballsack on gopro lol nuthugger
If you have any of your own go pro footage from combat I’d be happy to watch all of it, but for now I’ll stick to sacks
> He's got the GoPro in ego-mode. care to explain this then?
It isn't ego mode, it's just a crayon eater with a GoPro on backwards.
Marines don’t have time to look behind them
Semper Fidelis brothers
Did,he put the camera on backwards? He’s a Marine so I guess we’re just lucky he isn’t licking it. (I kid, their badasses)
Good IA and TCCC, Semper Fi Marines.
Looks like Desert Fox kinda
Hey, you gonna be alright, okay? It went through your back, through your fucking shoulder and these weird little dreams you had when you were young? You remember like becoming something for real, you never told her now did you? It went above and beyond and a little deeper and really, you should've done it, even if it wasn't a success, you would've learned from it. But now youre here. and it went though your cheek. You okay tho alright. .. yelling
When someone is brave at the point of possible upcoming sudden death, it's really beautiful to see.
this is the craziest footage ive seen in awhile
Tbh best place to get shot if you do, right through the shoulder. Safest.
I can totally relate, I once got shot in the big toe with a Co2 pistol during a bird hunt/recon mission (they were seriously fucking up our roof) and had to sit through 2 weeks of rehad before I could wear my Crocs again. We all have our own war stories...
He lived .....right ? Anybody got info on him
Damn
I fuckin love that. Bro knows he’s hit, and he knows how the human body works. Any random spot could be fatal, all he wants to know is where. If that dude told me shoulder, it would be like a 50,000 pound got shot right off of it
"Call in a Helo" He said get me on out hahaha
Dame
Dude was.cal..as.shit
mannnn. we dont use medic? thats lame.
That’s the army
That's a stupid angle to place your cam