Was shot in the cargo pocket area in Iraq. Had a large burrito I had made myself earlier. At first it looked like my leg was blown apart, but it was really just the beans and salsa blown everywhere. I like to thing the burrito deflected the shot.
Heard a similar story about a guy who got shot in the head in a firefight during a patrol, the round penetrated the helmet, skipped across the interior curvature of the helmet, over his forehead, cut a line that poured blood all over his face, and then punched out the other side of the helmet. Absolute fuckin miracle. He was knocked unconscious, his team members pick him up, roll him over, saw an entry hole and an exit hole on the helmet and blood all over and logically assumed he was just instantly dead, set him back down and keep returning fire. Dude comes to a little bit later and just sits up like the fuckin Undertaker and scares the piss out of the guy next to him, and pops right back into the fight lookin like a goddamn zombie with a hole in his helmet and blood all over his face.
That's SOP for breaching. If it's real bad contact, your #2 man will keep you up by your strap on your carrier and use you for a bullet sponge (what we were taught by Fallujah vets) When that door opens the train will push the first guy if he's slow. meet violence with greater violence
@@Seasniffer1969 Bullet sponge. I like that. "it wasn't the first bullet that hurt so much. it was those last 5 or 6 that my stack buddy pushed me into as his personal shield."
Had a friend who got shot in the face by a Taliban sniper in Afghanistan, 7.62, most likely a Dragunov, one shot from an elevated position on a mountain about 800 meters away AT NIGHT. It shattered his jaw and knocked out a bunch of teeth, missing his jugular arteries by inches, the doctors patched him up so well that you would never be able to tell unless he lifted his head up and showed you the scar along his jawline. The craziest part, they had been hunting the sniper for hours, and once he was all patched up he was impressed and had nothing but respect for the sniper, he always told me “If I ever got to meet him I’d buy him a beer, because I gotta hand it to him, that was a helluva shot.”
Shot in my head 2011. Helmet saved my life. AK round hit my right in my baseplate and made it ricochet through the top. Knocked a dime shape hole out of it. Knocked me out for about 4 seconds or so. Shifty day
I heard a firsthand account about a Marine taking a hit to the helmet (Vietnam era) and his first thought was that someone hit him with a blunt object. R.I.P uncle T.
@@broughttoideas What? It either doesn't exist or doesn't care about humans at all. Considering it could end all suffering, and there is no proof. I hope it's the first option, but even with the second option I wouldn't care about it. Because that would mean it purposely chooses to let humans suffer. Also let go to hell, because most people are either non religious or follow another religion. Thus there not being proof that one religion is real for 100% certainty, like it could do very easily. It means most people in history go to hell Simply because it didn't decide to tell humans what religion was the real one.
A lot of medical advances have helped a ton. Surgeons have learned to open up the skull to allow for swelling. Before this swelling was a huge problem in the brain cuz there's no where to expand, thus tissue damage occurs. I was stationed at Walter Reed from 2005 to 2008. I had a neighbor (infantryman injured in Afghanistan) in military housing that had half of the top of his skull missing for months until he was healed enough to get a prosthetic skull piece. Great guy, very funny.
Thats because helmets are shit tons stronger than they used to be. These arent your WW2 steel ass helmets that are paper thin and stop a lucky hit every 500 years. These are modern composite helmets and theyre designed to maximize ricochet and stoppage chances reliably, and failing that some are designed (like the ACH) to reduce bullet speed down enough to hopefully make its velocity unable to penetrate the skull, only causing a flesh wound.
My pro tip for not getting shot is to be one of the shortest guys in the platoon. Something about standing next to a guy that's a foot taller than you seems to make you a less appealing target.
That should work. Although I did have this little 5'2 Mexican dude in my section that got shot twice. Once in a guard tower (he fell out after) and the second time was in the ammo bunker at close range immediately after getting blown up. Dude had no luck.
My grandfather was shot in the head in WW1. Our family still has the helmet with the bullet damage still on the helmet.He survived, it was a glance hit near the top of his forehead a few inches lower and i would have never happend😅but those old Silver metal helmets fulfilled their job.
That's weird to think about, your whole existence, your mom's or dad's, siblings, whatever, could of just not happened. I believe our souls reincarnate eventually but still a mind fuck.
@@RohannvanRensburg I'm a civilian and own a rifle in 54r (PSL54c), I can't even imagine getting shot with one of those rounds, the fireball off my muzzle break is crazy and my rifle is only semi auto.
@@donnie7013 true. I've seen people in comment sections saying that they would rather not wear a helmet because you have to wear it for so long and it's uncomfortable and heavy or whatever other bullshit. I think I'd be perfectly fine with being uncomfortable if that means that some random bozo's ak round doesn't take up residence within my cranium.
Not entirely true, the flattest parts of these composite helmets are the sides and crown (which are used for their ballistic ratings), everything else is angled and has shown to reliably deflect shots from rifles. So as long as you're getting shot from the front your chance of survival is rather high, not guaranteed mind you, but alot damn higher than WW2 era steel pots.
I think a military helmet is like a bicycle hement it's not there to stop bullets. But it's there for whatever wants to hit u in the head. Hopefully giving u a better chance of walking away lol
A squad leader in my plt was shot where the goggles are on the helmet, knocked him clean out, bullet penetrated through like 1mm. Also had a squad member shot through the helmet with 7.62, zipped around his skull and out, he lived.
@@kozmo7 Ya he did, nobody knew he was shot until he took off his helmet. It followed his skull and went out the other side. They removed part of his skull for a while for the swelling, he is doing good now.
People that got shot in the head and survive, especially the ones who survive with minimal if any long term damage/issues all have to be meant for a bigger purpose to survive something like that. I've seen numerous examples where a bullet is millimeters from vital no turning back/fixing part of the brain and they survived thanks to their Dr. Some crazy stuff tho
To a certain extent they are bullet resistant. Handgun rounds up to 44 mag are stopped easily. Rifle rounds at long ranges or at just right angles are also stopped.
@@masonh9147 Some helmets can Stop 7.62xx39 rounds, like the Ops Core SF helmet. The Standard helmet the US Army uses is the ACH helmet, it is Level IIIA and rated to stop a .357 Magnum.
Imagine how the rest of the crew must’ve felt lmao “BILL?! HOLY SHIT, WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD” Bill with obvious signs of head trauma; “NAHIT’SCOOLIMGOOD,WHEREAREWEAGAIN??”
My grandpa was shot in the head in ww2, the bullet entered somewhere around his chin and exited on the other side behind the ear. He survived and lived a normal life, but I never got to meet him
I love stories like this because it reminds me of how lucky we may get. Life is just one chance and nobody wants to waste it early. Sadly there are people who live in constant terror because of their area, choices, and whatever else you think of. Never take this life for granted! Thank you for your service.
100% agree and we dont even realise it sometimes . In the same years i fell from 12 feets on my back and broke a spinal . Few month later i crashed my car at 120 mph i jumped 40 feet did a barrel in the air and landed on my 4 wheel. Almost 0 injuries for me and my friend. I know this sound insane but i swear that a true story and theres even more to that crazy story. For a few years i thought about that accident every day, i could have killed so many people because i was reckless. Have a great day buddy
Jacob Miller was a Union soldier from Indiana who was shot between the eyes in 1863 at the battle of Chickamauga. Jacob Miller died in 1917. You can look up pictures of him as an old man with the wound still open on his forehead.
What’s more impressive is after he was shot he put his own eye back in his head and re arranged the bone above his eye to put it back in, then tried to walk 15 miles to Chattanooga it’s incredible he survived
I believe it's Grenada where Kevlar helmets were first used. If I remember correctly, a Cuban shot a guy in the side of his helmet pretty close range. It rattled his cage, but the Kevlar stopped the bullet.
I was a breakdown machinist for a ammunition factory. Needless to say a round got jammed in a machine and a pop off happened and I took shrapnel to my forehead. I pulled out the copper jacket out myself. And ended my day and went home .
@@kolaach94 joke didn’t go over his head…it was a bad joke. I’d take a blow from any professional boxer who’s walked this earth before I stand on the wrong side of a pkm. They’re two incomparable situations with one outcome being WAY worse than the other.
The Army was using that old steel pot back in my days. Any steel pot helmet would not have stopped a high velocity bullet. Those Kelvar helmets do save lives.
These kevlar helmets won't stop a high velocity round either (depending on the distance/velocity), but they do a lot better at cushioning the impact of a glancing strike as it did here, or a ricochet ect.. The impact deformation of those tin can helmets would've definitely done more damage though in a case like this.
7.62×54R is beast of a round. That coming out of a PKM can give you a bad day. If that helmet can eat that and save the guy wearing it, that is a ggooooddd helmet.
He was not knocked out! (Joking) He dropped to the floor to see if the newbies would stop and help him! I read this somewhere: 1 down becomes 3 if you don’t pass through and get on with your job!
It's true enough. If you stop to help the other guy, now you're sitting in an area where you already know the enemy has a line of fire, because he just used it to ventilate your buddy. It's the same reason that, in civilian life, you wouldn't enter a room to help an unconscious person with no visible injuries, or rush down a staircase covered in KY Jelly to help the guy who just fell down it. Remove the hazard, THEN help the victim, or you just become another casualty.
Yeah, all the way down to basic Infantry, you're taught to get in that room even if you have to walk on your buddy to get there, if anybody goes down, nothing stops
I’ve never been shot but met one guy from 2nd Ranger regiment who was shot and the bullet followed the helmets curvature and he had a scar through his hair line. A perfect scar. Those helmets are life savers!
Right? I never understood that whole caveat, "let's all stop shooting to check on this squadmate!" meanwhile, the enemy is flanking you and is about to vibecheck you from the back. It's fucked up, but in a real combat scenario, they either get up, or they don't.
I bet it knocked him out. I got hit with a ricochet and got the “white flash” like being punched. Embedded under my scalp. Tissue cooked to the bullet (what was left of it) and felt like pulling out a fish hook, even gave a pop coming out 😂
I started out my military career with the 19th SF at Camp Williams Utah, In 1982, after 3 years went active duty with the 82nd ABN and then 2nd Armored FWD in Germany. Then left the Army and went to the Air Guard, went to Iraq, after I hit my 20 went to the Air Force Reserve then back to Iraq and finely retired in 2014.
I was shot in the head in a Nerf Battle. I reached the objective and completed my mission, then I went to Pizza Hut with my mom and my friends for the salad bar Circa '06. K.I.A Rodney Rogan K.I.A Joe King K.I.A Johny Jeremy K.I.A Ron Sins
Its a weird transition from a rifle company to operations. They tell you in a rifle company never to leave someone behind, but in operations the mission comes first. And everybody had that mindset. Yeah we're a team, but we all know that we're here to do a job. If we can safely pull you to cover before we move on, cool, but if not, sorry about your luck.
@@RealAugustusAutumn thanks for the insight. In these operations, is it ever a concern that leaving them behind will allow them to be discovered later on? I guess this isn’t an issue if the everyone dies that’s supposed to and the scene is secure after.
@@floweuphoria999 It depends on the scenario. If it's a breach/sweep, leaving someone wounded in a hallway isn't the same as leaving someone wounded in a desert during a field op. Its a team decision, and inevitably if you get hurt and can't continue, you do what you have to do to ensure the mission continues. So if you break your leg, lets say, and you can't be helo'd out, you'll find yourself a hidey hole while you team moves on. They'll extract you when they can, but until then, chill out, keep a low profile, and read a book
@@morgatron4639 Generally, yeah. You do a lot of waiting and its nice to do something other than stare off into the dusty mountains, your eyes searing in their sockets
I'm all about OPSEC..but the recent Operators speaking out about experiences is awesome. It shows what men who stand on the wall actually go through. Wake up and thank them daily.
@@KTdaDon2 with bullets of various sizes and potential speeds, arguably nothing is truly bullet proof. But this helmet has saved lives 🙏 not to mention the mobility it offers and rails for various equipment attachments
Helmets are pretty useful, regular people or people with little to no experience or knowledge on military/combat stuff usually think that helmets don’t provide enough protection, they see it all the time, in movies and think that it’s just something more related to the overall look of a traditional soldier But helmets are actually pretty useful, and have always done their job, in several wars trough history helmets have saved soldiers from a secure death by a shot in the head, as a matter of fact, even thought of course, you had to be pretty lucky to have something like this happening to you In old wars there’s cases of bullets getting shot at helmets, penetrating them and slipping inside them, without hurting the soldiers other than a headache There was this man that was shot in the head by a rifle, the bullet impacted on the helmet and slipped around inside it, ending up being near the ear of that lucky man, that realized that a bullet was shot with enough power and speed that literally penetrated his helmet, but it ended up not being even near to kill him, amazing.
Fredo got shot in the head through his ACH in April 2007 while still inside the FOB gate; snipers in Kirkuk had staked out the gates and found a low point in one where they could just see the top of a gunner’s head when the HMMWV stopped. He was in a coma until September- that ACH and fast response by Doc saved his life.
@fuk' Biden thanks man I was looking at hard head veterans the other day they have some nice helmets for a good price i would go with team wendy but i dont have 1000dollars to drop on somthing I'm not going to wear that often just need it for s.h.t.f. type stuff
Most anything $250 and up is going to be better than bump helmets or pots. Even if it’s the Chinese trash, if you can attach nods it’s a win. I recommend going with gunfighter/high cut helmets with rails and NV mount
Modern helmets are composite layers and they direct the bullet around the helmet, I remember being issues one in the 80's and they did a demonstration on the range where we fired at the helmets secured to melons to show how it kept you safe...the split but the layers take the round around the head.
Imagine lining up and taking making a head shot only to see your target walking the next day. Must be disheartening. It's a joke I respect all those who serve and protect
We saw the same thing over in Afghanistan. Guy got shot in the head we thought he was dead and it just knocked him the fuck out. His helmet saved his life. The bullet traveled around on the inside of his helmet and blew out his PQS20 battery pack.
The crazy thing is, the issued army helmets dont stop bullets and barely slow down even 5.56 or 9mm. But theres a lot of helmets on the market you can get that are way better, but commanders dont approve them.
i was very surprised to see that somr of the newer ops core helmets are rated for rifle cartriges and still very light. didn't expect to see that during my lifetime.
What civilians here: Damn man, that dude got shot in the head. They legit looked at him, said "Nah he's fine" and they finished their mission. That's some badass stuff and glad to hear their homie was all good when they got back to him. Kinda fucked up to just dip on the homie but I guess that is an entirely different world out there.
They didnt dip on the homie. They secured their target to avoid any other casualties when they came hack out to get said buddy. By breach point he means more then likely a door with a pkm and a fortified postion down the hallway. Which means if they step out to grab their buddy they are next. Its best to just leave him because the enemies will use him as a bait to kill others
Understand that to stop fighting while being directly engaged in order to aid a casualty is a death sentence for your entire element. Thats why we teach self aid. Self aid is the ONLY aid until the firefight is won.
plates and helmets really be something else. We had a ranger take a 50 to the back plate while flying back from the x in a 47. round went through the fuel tanks, punched through a gap in the BPS, and stopped in his back plate. crazy shit.
Makes you think how precious a life it really is. Thank you to all the freedom fighters that put their lives on the line to defend the weak and Innocent.
Alot of these "helmet saved my life" storys I don't put too much faith in as sometimes the bullet would have grazed the skull if not miss...A helmet does make your head A bigger target But yeah I'd rather have one then not
I knew a convenience store clerk in North Carolina that was shot in the head by a robber with a .25 ACP. The graze just left a bad scar. But if you get a “graze” with a combat caliber weapon, you’ll still probably get some skull damage. Lots more power there.
Yea most of those “lives saved” wouldn’t have hit the persons head and would have miss if they weren’t wearing a helmet, but same I’d rather have something than nothing
I mean, I'd argue it was a safe assumption to make if they knew it was a PKM that clapped him, those things are slinging 7.62x54r, them some nastly rounds.
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Stepping over a fallen teammate must be one of the toughest things to do as a member of Special Forces or SWAT. Mission first is the mantra but having to ignore a friend who has just gone down would be the foundation of PTSD.
Buddy of mine got hit by a sniper, his helmet redirected the bullet down into his neck. He survived and is still walking around being an absolute beast today.
This is a prime example of how far the technology for protective headgear provided to our troops has advanced. Infantrymen have been issued helmets since before the Napoleonic Wars but it wasn't until the last 15-20 years that they were worth the headache. The helmets issued during the Vietnam and Korean War were so outclassed by their contemporary firearms that they struggled to stop handguns.
Been a thing for over a century. .30-06 is even a little bigger with more energy. 7.62x51mm wouldn't be fun either and is the caliber used in the m240 as well as other weapons
I also had a buddy while in the humvee was shot and knocked out the next man up in the turret was shot. Original dude woke up and took the turret back. Awesome dude.
Best war footage I've ever seen: Soldiers running from hole to hole for cover while taking fire from an adjacent hill, one guy gets shot in the head but his helmet deflects it. He's unconscious for a moment and his squadmates panic thinking he's dead. He wakes up and the (medic?) asks if him if he's alright. Clearly he's still dazed but he responds "Fuck yeah, Imma stud."
Was shot in the cargo pocket area in Iraq. Had a large burrito I had made myself earlier. At first it looked like my leg was blown apart, but it was really just the beans and salsa blown everywhere. I like to thing the burrito deflected the shot.
What a waste of a good burrito...
Funny to look back on, but sounds horrifying in the moment.
LOL
At least you didn’t shit your pants because of the burrito lol
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I got shot in the ass by an AK and still have some shrapnel in my pelvis. My flashlight saved my ass, literally.
Crazy bro
Literally the real Forest Gump bro. What branch?
How much ice cream did you eat
I thought your ass was that thick, it stopped the bullet for a second lo
"Daaaaaaamn who shot you in the assss?" - mike Lowrey
Heard a similar story about a guy who got shot in the head in a firefight during a patrol, the round penetrated the helmet, skipped across the interior curvature of the helmet, over his forehead, cut a line that poured blood all over his face, and then punched out the other side of the helmet. Absolute fuckin miracle. He was knocked unconscious, his team members pick him up, roll him over, saw an entry hole and an exit hole on the helmet and blood all over and logically assumed he was just instantly dead, set him back down and keep returning fire. Dude comes to a little bit later and just sits up like the fuckin Undertaker and scares the piss out of the guy next to him, and pops right back into the fight lookin like a goddamn zombie with a hole in his helmet and blood all over his face.
The enemies 100% heard the bell toll when he woke back up
@@masonh9147 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😅😅 oh shit that's funny AF
That's badass
I can only hope I’ll be 1% as badass as this dude
Special Forces Mindset:
1. Breacher is down.
2. Secure the objective.
3. Use extra malice.
That's SOP for breaching. If it's real bad contact, your #2 man will keep you up by your strap on your carrier and use you for a bullet sponge (what we were taught by Fallujah vets)
When that door opens the train will push the first guy if he's slow.
meet violence with greater violence
@@Seasniffer1969 Bullet sponge. I like that.
"it wasn't the first bullet that hurt so much. it was those last 5 or 6 that my stack buddy pushed me into as his personal shield."
@Dr Beechas that's pretty hardcore but those men live by that, so only the highest respects to those who are willing to do that stuff
@@TheTibetyak you are making me think you were the bullet sponge once, by any chance were you?
@@happyGMR4819 Only in my dreams.
Had a friend who got shot in the face by a Taliban sniper in Afghanistan, 7.62, most likely a Dragunov, one shot from an elevated position on a mountain about 800 meters away AT NIGHT. It shattered his jaw and knocked out a bunch of teeth, missing his jugular arteries by inches, the doctors patched him up so well that you would never be able to tell unless he lifted his head up and showed you the scar along his jawline. The craziest part, they had been hunting the sniper for hours, and once he was all patched up he was impressed and had nothing but respect for the sniper, he always told me “If I ever got to meet him I’d buy him a beer, because I gotta hand it to him, that was a helluva shot.”
Respect your enemies 👏
Damn, anyone who can eat a 54MMR has my respect. Good to hear he recovered well, physically.
Jugular veins, but u probably thinking about carotid
Much respect to you both 🙏!
If I met the man who tried to kill me I’d probably not buy him a beer lol
Shot in my head 2011. Helmet saved my life. AK round hit my right in my baseplate and made it ricochet through the top. Knocked a dime shape hole out of it. Knocked me out for about 4 seconds or so. Shifty day
Glad you made it home diggie dawg
God bless
Fuck man that's some gnarly shit.
Thank you. Forever my pleasure.
I heard a firsthand account about a Marine taking a hit to the helmet (Vietnam era) and his first thought was that someone hit him with a blunt object. R.I.P uncle T.
Thank God for those engineers. Hopefully he's living the life today.
Thank those engineerings not god. They are the true saviours.
@@timdeathly you read it wrong there is no comma between “god” and “for”
@@uv8364 What? He's thanking God the engineers exist, instead of thanking the engineers. Otherwise it would be "Thank god to those engineers".
@@timdeathly he still loves you part of you is him
@@broughttoideas What? It either doesn't exist or doesn't care about humans at all. Considering it could end all suffering, and there is no proof. I hope it's the first option, but even with the second option I wouldn't care about it. Because that would mean it purposely chooses to let humans suffer. Also let go to hell, because most people are either non religious or follow another religion. Thus there not being proof that one religion is real for 100% certainty, like it could do very easily. It means most people in history go to hell Simply because it didn't decide to tell humans what religion was the real one.
>*knocked uncon*
>"Leave him! We'll go back later!"
>*walking back*
>*body gone*
>"wasnt there a body here?"
>"IM NOT FUCKING DEAD ASSHOLES!"
That’s probably not far off from how it actually happened 🤣
When you’re in the shit and you think someone is down you keep moving. You’re not the medic
@@jaimevalencia6271 obviously, it was a joke
I'm seriously amazed that there are so many headshot survivors commenting here.
A lot of lucky bastards out there . Take care
A lot of medical advances have helped a ton. Surgeons have learned to open up the skull to allow for swelling. Before this swelling was a huge problem in the brain cuz there's no where to expand, thus tissue damage occurs. I was stationed at Walter Reed from 2005 to 2008. I had a neighbor (infantryman injured in Afghanistan) in military housing that had half of the top of his skull missing for months until he was healed enough to get a prosthetic skull piece. Great guy, very funny.
Yeah fuck a bump helmet lmao 🤣
Thats because helmets are shit tons stronger than they used to be. These arent your WW2 steel ass helmets that are paper thin and stop a lucky hit every 500 years.
These are modern composite helmets and theyre designed to maximize ricochet and stoppage chances reliably, and failing that some are designed (like the ACH) to reduce bullet speed down enough to hopefully make its velocity unable to penetrate the skull, only causing a flesh wound.
Well, yeah, the dead guys aren't telling their story.
@@FenrisulfrSkarr those helmets back then weren’t intended to stop a bullet, hell, even helmets today have trouble with high velocity rifle rounds.
My pro tip for not getting shot is to be one of the shortest guys in the platoon. Something about standing next to a guy that's a foot taller than you seems to make you a less appealing target.
Imma tell my buddy that
I always say that this is how Audie Murphy got away with his shenanigans.
@@superduperdave I don't know dude Audie Murphy was some kind of mythical beast on the inside. Dude must have had the mentality of a giant.
Is being 5.6 ft short enough?
That should work. Although I did have this little 5'2 Mexican dude in my section that got shot twice. Once in a guard tower (he fell out after) and the second time was in the ammo bunker at close range immediately after getting blown up. Dude had no luck.
Gnarly is an understatement, if I got my helmet hit by a PKM, I would die from shock.
From shock you would only fall unconscious, just like the teammate of the guy in the video
@@alaas1041 I don’t think you understood what he meant
7.62x54r does not fuck around.
@porchmunkey55Damn brain damage got him good there at the end
Dude markiplier has gone through some shit.
LOL OMG i swear i felt like it was him for a moment
Lmao
I thought the same shit
I didn't notice until I read your comment, he totally picks up marks cadence for a bit there.
He doesn't look like a butch, so I don't see Markiplier at all.
My grandfather was shot in the head in WW1. Our family still has the helmet with the bullet damage still on the helmet.He survived, it was a glance hit near the top of his forehead a few inches lower and i would have never happend😅but those old Silver metal helmets fulfilled their job.
Even luckier than you think since World War 1 era helmets were not made to be bulletproof.
That's weird to think about, your whole existence, your mom's or dad's, siblings, whatever, could of just not happened. I believe our souls reincarnate eventually but still a mind fuck.
@@queuedjar4578 well the modern military helmets used today aren't really bulletproof to 7.62. even the Russian Altyn isn't bulletproof
@@queuedjar4578 they definitely werent for a direct hit, but they could help with glance shots which would otherwise still probably fuck you up
Funny username. The problem is, everyone is too afraid to be the first against the wall.
I got clipped on the arm from a PKM. I couldn’t imagine getting my Kevlar smashed by one
x54s are heavy and moving pretty damn fast, even getting clipped sounds brutal
What would it feel like? A hard punch or something similar?
@@jimmyliang4414 more like a big ol hypersonic marble sized hole flying through your arm lol
Civilian here. What kind of injury is to be clipped by a bullet? A cut?
@@RohannvanRensburg I'm a civilian and own a rifle in 54r (PSL54c), I can't even imagine getting shot with one of those rounds, the fireball off my muzzle break is crazy and my rifle is only semi auto.
It either “mohawks” the helmet, or is clean through and through. Part of the game.
Yeah, but even the chances of it saving a life is enough for me.
@@donnie7013 true. I've seen people in comment sections saying that they would rather not wear a helmet because you have to wear it for so long and it's uncomfortable and heavy or whatever other bullshit. I think I'd be perfectly fine with being uncomfortable if that means that some random bozo's ak round doesn't take up residence within my cranium.
@@flawless_Cowboy Situational. Helmet for direct action? All day long. Helmet for recon? No way. Same with plates.
Not entirely true, the flattest parts of these composite helmets are the sides and crown (which are used for their ballistic ratings), everything else is angled and has shown to reliably deflect shots from rifles. So as long as you're getting shot from the front your chance of survival is rather high, not guaranteed mind you, but alot damn higher than WW2 era steel pots.
I think a military helmet is like a bicycle hement it's not there to stop bullets. But it's there for whatever wants to hit u in the head. Hopefully giving u a better chance of walking away lol
A squad leader in my plt was shot where the goggles are on the helmet, knocked him clean out, bullet penetrated through like 1mm. Also had a squad member shot through the helmet with 7.62, zipped around his skull and out, he lived.
Holy shit! Did the second friend have any brain damage? How did that not completely destroy his brain?
@@kozmo7 Ya he did, nobody knew he was shot until he took off his helmet. It followed his skull and went out the other side. They removed part of his skull for a while for the swelling, he is doing good now.
@@Alphaproximita
Jesus. That is absolutely insane. Glad to hear he is still with this world, what a lucky guy.
Thank you for your service
Thank u and everyone else who sacrificed for us and this country. 💪💪👊🍻
People that got shot in the head and survive, especially the ones who survive with minimal if any long term damage/issues all have to be meant for a bigger purpose to survive something like that.
I've seen numerous examples where a bullet is millimeters from vital no turning back/fixing part of the brain and they survived thanks to their Dr. Some crazy stuff tho
This is why they mean it when they say to wear your damn helmet. It's not bulletproof but it's a lot tougher than your bare head.
To a certain extent they are bullet resistant. Handgun rounds up to 44 mag are stopped easily. Rifle rounds at long ranges or at just right angles are also stopped.
@@Totemparadox I thought only that special Russian Altyn helmet was rated up to .44, is it the same with standard kevlar helms as well?
@@masonh9147 Some helmets can Stop 7.62xx39 rounds, like the Ops Core SF helmet. The Standard helmet the US Army uses is the ACH helmet, it is Level IIIA and rated to stop a .357 Magnum.
Imagine how the rest of the crew must’ve felt lmao
“BILL?! HOLY SHIT, WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD”
Bill with obvious signs of head trauma; “NAHIT’SCOOLIMGOOD,WHEREAREWEAGAIN??”
My dad got shot in the head in iraq I thank god everyday that he had a helmet
Was he an American soldier or a terrorist
@@bloopy6166 a goat
@@HaloDude557 greatest of all time 🤤
@@bloopy6166 Did somebody call MJ?
@@bloopy6166 dumb ass question
My grandpa was shot in the head in ww2, the bullet entered somewhere around his chin and exited on the other side behind the ear. He survived and lived a normal life, but I never got to meet him
Well that clearly reduced his life span drastically
@@lukeerative My great grandpa fought in ww2 and hes dead. Not a lot of ww2 vets are still alive
I love stories like this because it reminds me of how lucky we may get. Life is just one chance and nobody wants to waste it early. Sadly there are people who live in constant terror because of their area, choices, and whatever else you think of. Never take this life for granted! Thank you for your service.
100% agree and we dont even realise it sometimes . In the same years i fell from 12 feets on my back and broke a spinal . Few month later i crashed my car at 120 mph i jumped 40 feet did a barrel in the air and landed on my 4 wheel. Almost 0 injuries for me and my friend. I know this sound insane but i swear that a true story and theres even more to that crazy story.
For a few years i thought about that accident every day, i could have killed so many people because i was reckless. Have a great day buddy
Jacob Miller was a Union soldier from Indiana who was shot between the eyes in 1863 at the battle of Chickamauga.
Jacob Miller died in 1917.
You can look up pictures of him as an old man with the wound still open on his forehead.
That's impressive, fighting in a battle 46 years after he died
What’s more impressive is after he was shot he put his own eye back in his head and re arranged the bone above his eye to put it back in, then tried to walk 15 miles to Chattanooga it’s incredible he survived
I believe it's Grenada where Kevlar helmets were first used. If I remember correctly, a Cuban shot a guy in the side of his helmet pretty close range. It rattled his cage, but the Kevlar stopped the bullet.
That helmet is in the museum at Bragg. The bullet is visible. I heard the firefight about a half mile away.
@@brianazmy3156
Cool...I'll have to visit that museum. I would guess they've got some thing from SF. I wonder if they have anything from WSMTT.
Nice and good on him for having that helmet. Thank you for your service
Knew a guy who lost his life due to shrapnel breaking through his Kevlar from an IED. Always wear your helmet !
@K Juliet "Seatbelts don't stop you from dying in a severe car crash so why wear them?"
Wow. Pkm shot to the head. Unreal. Imagine waking up from that bullet biting through your helmet. You would probably think ur dead.
I was a breakdown machinist for a ammunition factory. Needless to say a round got jammed in a machine and a pop off happened and I took shrapnel to my forehead. I pulled out the copper jacket out myself. And ended my day and went home .
Ah, nothing like a skull tap to reforce your fears of hidden enemies
I kept mine from my time in Iraq.
The PKM fires the 7.62x54mmR cartridge if I'm not mistaken. That thing's no joke. The Mosin Nagant and Dragunov both fire the same bullet.
Damn, that must've been like getting punched by Mike Tyson in his prime 😳
Huge understatement. It was a PKM round. A guy punching has nothing on that.
more like mike tyson swinging a baseball bat at your head lol
@@DJSbros do you hear that????? OH its the joke flying over your head!!
@@kolaach94 joke didn’t go over his head…it was a bad joke. I’d take a blow from any professional boxer who’s walked this earth before I stand on the wrong side of a pkm. They’re two incomparable situations with one outcome being WAY worse than the other.
@@kolaach94 death isn't a joke, and go back play call of duty
This dudes a legit American ninja warrior in the most legit literal sense of the word
You'll miss the helmet when you get a pass overhead that hurts even if the bullet didn't actually touch you. Every cover counts.
Markiplier even more badass than I thought
The Army was using that old steel pot back in my days. Any steel pot helmet would not have stopped a high velocity bullet. Those Kelvar helmets do save lives.
Problem is most rifle rounds will blow through Kevlar
These kevlar helmets won't stop a high velocity round either (depending on the distance/velocity), but they do a lot better at cushioning the impact of a glancing strike as it did here, or a ricochet ect.. The impact deformation of those tin can helmets would've definitely done more damage though in a case like this.
7.62×54R is beast of a round. That coming out of a PKM can give you a bad day. If that helmet can eat that and save the guy wearing it, that is a ggooooddd helmet.
I Heard the 19th SFG was some bad asses man !! god bless you boys 🇺🇸
Badass and bad ass are probably not the same thing but I know which you mean.
For the unaware a pkm fires a rifle round, he was unconscious bc of the ridiculous amount of kinetic energy
He was not knocked out! (Joking) He dropped to the floor to see if the newbies would stop and help him!
I read this somewhere: 1 down becomes 3 if you don’t pass through and get on with your job!
It's true enough. If you stop to help the other guy, now you're sitting in an area where you already know the enemy has a line of fire, because he just used it to ventilate your buddy. It's the same reason that, in civilian life, you wouldn't enter a room to help an unconscious person with no visible injuries, or rush down a staircase covered in KY Jelly to help the guy who just fell down it. Remove the hazard, THEN help the victim, or you just become another casualty.
1 becomes 3 is partly the reason for downsizing from 7.62mm to 5.56mm, plus you can carry more.
Isn’t it that you need 2 others to deal with a wounded. One to carry/drag and another to provide cover.
Very very very true..
Yeah, all the way down to basic Infantry, you're taught to get in that room even if you have to walk on your buddy to get there, if anybody goes down, nothing stops
If you look up the soldier cam footage, its insane to hear bullets whizz by or hit near them. Thank you for doing things i dont want to do
That helmet design would have been scifi when I was a kid. It looks awesome
It’s a gunfighter/high cut
Imagine the jumpscare of seeing ur dead buddy behind you after winning the firefight.
That guy: "I lived bitch"
I’ve never been shot but met one guy from 2nd Ranger regiment who was shot and the bullet followed the helmets curvature and he had a scar through his hair line. A perfect scar. Those helmets are life savers!
So you are saying in real life the whole team does stop n scream MARK OH NO like they do in the movies ?
Right? I never understood that whole caveat, "let's all stop shooting to check on this squadmate!" meanwhile, the enemy is flanking you and is about to vibecheck you from the back.
It's fucked up, but in a real combat scenario, they either get up, or they don't.
Nope. Corpses can't pull a trigger. Step over them and keep on.
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Thanks you for all your videos. Keep up the great work.🇺🇸👌🏻🇺🇸
I bet it knocked him out. I got hit with a ricochet and got the “white flash” like being punched. Embedded under my scalp. Tissue cooked to the bullet (what was left of it) and felt like pulling out a fish hook, even gave a pop coming out 😂
I started out my military career with the 19th SF at Camp Williams Utah, In 1982, after 3 years went active duty with the 82nd ABN and then 2nd Armored FWD in Germany. Then left the Army and went to the Air Guard, went to Iraq, after I hit my 20 went to the Air Force Reserve then back to Iraq and finely retired in 2014.
I was shot in the head in a Nerf Battle. I reached the objective and completed my mission, then I went to Pizza Hut with my mom and my friends for the salad bar Circa '06.
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That is a Great helmet! That Helmet saved someone's Life!
Bringing a helmet in to Tarkov every time now
For those unfamiliar, a PKM is a Russian made LMG so that round is bigger and much more deadly then you’re standard AK.
It's actually a step above an LMG, it's a MMG/GPMG. Russia's LMG is the RPK-16.
Anything, Any Place, Any Time. Hopefully he's still with us. 🤙
Bro surviving a round from a pkm is a miracle. That's a monster round.
Thank you for your service mike.
Yo that Natty G SF group. Good shit my dude.
I like that word “bypass”
Its a weird transition from a rifle company to operations. They tell you in a rifle company never to leave someone behind, but in operations the mission comes first. And everybody had that mindset. Yeah we're a team, but we all know that we're here to do a job. If we can safely pull you to cover before we move on, cool, but if not, sorry about your luck.
@@RealAugustusAutumn thanks for the insight. In these operations, is it ever a concern that leaving them behind will allow them to be discovered later on? I guess this isn’t an issue if the everyone dies that’s supposed to and the scene is secure after.
@@floweuphoria999 It depends on the scenario. If it's a breach/sweep, leaving someone wounded in a hallway isn't the same as leaving someone wounded in a desert during a field op. Its a team decision, and inevitably if you get hurt and can't continue, you do what you have to do to ensure the mission continues.
So if you break your leg, lets say, and you can't be helo'd out, you'll find yourself a hidey hole while you team moves on. They'll extract you when they can, but until then, chill out, keep a low profile, and read a book
@@RealAugustusAutumn Did you guys bring books in your kit?
@@morgatron4639 Generally, yeah. You do a lot of waiting and its nice to do something other than stare off into the dusty mountains, your eyes searing in their sockets
I'm all about OPSEC..but the recent Operators speaking out about experiences is awesome. It shows what men who stand on the wall actually go through. Wake up and thank them daily.
Can I ask which helmet brand and model he wore?
I'm curious as well. Stopping a 7.62x54R is crazy, i didn't think any helmets could do that.
And to think the modern US military helmet is based off of the German Stahlhelm concept.
Very well engineered and saved someone's life 👍
Ballistic ops core helmet for the save 🙏 definitely a top tier helmet
If only they were actually bulletproof
@@KTdaDon2 with bullets of various sizes and potential speeds, arguably nothing is truly bullet proof. But this helmet has saved lives 🙏 not to mention the mobility it offers and rails for various equipment attachments
Helmets are pretty useful, regular people or people with little to no experience or knowledge on military/combat stuff usually think that helmets don’t provide enough protection, they see it all the time, in movies and think that it’s just something more related to the overall look of a traditional soldier
But helmets are actually pretty useful, and have always done their job, in several wars trough history helmets have saved soldiers from a secure death by a shot in the head, as a matter of fact, even thought of course, you had to be pretty lucky to have something like this happening to you
In old wars there’s cases of bullets getting shot at helmets, penetrating them and slipping inside them, without hurting the soldiers other than a headache
There was this man that was shot in the head by a rifle, the bullet impacted on the helmet and slipped around inside it, ending up being near the ear of that lucky man, that realized that a bullet was shot with enough power and speed that literally penetrated his helmet, but it ended up not being even near to kill him, amazing.
“When I was a team Sargent in 19… (remembering what they did is classified and illegal) …special forces group”
what are you referring to as illegal?
Lol
sure illegal
He says “19th”
He is saying 19th SFG . Public record. No illegality here.
Fredo got shot in the head through his ACH in April 2007 while still inside the FOB gate; snipers in Kirkuk had staked out the gates and found a low point in one where they could just see the top of a gunner’s head when the HMMWV stopped. He was in a coma until September- that ACH and fast response by Doc saved his life.
What's a good helmet to buy Mike and do we have to pay 1000 for it
@@Millstone_a_child_of_God wow you're a nice person
@fuk' Biden thanks man I was looking at hard head veterans the other day they have some nice helmets for a good price i would go with team wendy but i dont have 1000dollars to drop on somthing I'm not going to wear that often just need it for s.h.t.f. type stuff
Most anything $250 and up is going to be better than bump helmets or pots. Even if it’s the Chinese trash, if you can attach nods it’s a win. I recommend going with gunfighter/high cut helmets with rails and NV mount
@fuk' Biden would still be better than nothing tbh
Modern helmets are composite layers and they direct the bullet around the helmet, I remember being issues one in the 80's and they did a demonstration on the range where we fired at the helmets secured to melons to show how it kept you safe...the split but the layers take the round around the head.
Imagine lining up and taking making a head shot only to see your target walking the next day. Must be disheartening.
It's a joke I respect all those who serve and protect
“Got the bastard!”
25 dmg
“Oh that’s bullshit!”
@@S3verusMyG no headshot?! Nice hitreg!
radio bleep* "it didnt penatrate the armor!"
@@S3verusMyG fuck this I’m leaving this buggy ass server *soldier just disappears in firefight*
God bless you guys man! Some brave folks for sure
Did you serve with Tim Kennedy in 19th special forces group?
We saw the same thing over in Afghanistan. Guy got shot in the head we thought he was dead and it just knocked him the fuck out. His helmet saved his life. The bullet traveled around on the inside of his helmet and blew out his PQS20 battery pack.
Hey shout-out to my 19th group brothers, I'm in 20th
Thank you for your service Cap
Dude just woke up later like “aww man i missed the entire mission damn it!”
Hells yeah. 💪
The crazy thing is, the issued army helmets dont stop bullets and barely slow down even 5.56 or 9mm. But theres a lot of helmets on the market you can get that are way better, but commanders dont approve them.
How do I know my helmet size?
Measure ur head
i was very surprised to see that somr of the newer ops core helmets are rated for rifle cartriges and still very light. didn't expect to see that during my lifetime.
Thanks for your service 🙏
I can just imagine his friend waking up with one hell of a headache
My friends name is (beeeeep) too. Glad he’s ok though.
He took a PKM bullet & was only KO'd. Regardless of range that's a testament to the helmet you guys were wearing.
What civilians here:
Damn man, that dude got shot in the head. They legit looked at him, said "Nah he's fine" and they finished their mission. That's some badass stuff and glad to hear their homie was all good when they got back to him. Kinda fucked up to just dip on the homie but I guess that is an entirely different world out there.
They didnt dip on the homie. They secured their target to avoid any other casualties when they came hack out to get said buddy. By breach point he means more then likely a door with a pkm and a fortified postion down the hallway. Which means if they step out to grab their buddy they are next. Its best to just leave him because the enemies will use him as a bait to kill others
If they stop for him everyone dies
Understand that to stop fighting while being directly engaged in order to aid a casualty is a death sentence for your entire element. Thats why we teach self aid. Self aid is the ONLY aid until the firefight is won.
plates and helmets really be something else. We had a ranger take a 50 to the back plate while flying back from the x in a 47. round went through the fuel tanks, punched through a gap in the BPS, and stopped in his back plate. crazy shit.
I need one of those asap
Makes you think how precious a life it really is. Thank you to all the freedom fighters that put their lives on the line to defend the weak and Innocent.
Alot of these "helmet saved my life" storys I don't put too much faith in as sometimes the bullet would have grazed the skull if not miss...A helmet does make your head A bigger target
But yeah I'd rather have one then not
I knew a convenience store clerk in North Carolina that was shot in the head by a robber with a .25 ACP. The graze just left a bad scar. But if you get a “graze” with a combat caliber weapon, you’ll still probably get some skull damage. Lots more power there.
Yea most of those “lives saved” wouldn’t have hit the persons head and would have miss if they weren’t wearing a helmet, but same I’d rather have something than nothing
@@terrysaunders2026 just imagine what could have happened if they weren't wearing their skull that day though.
You want a helmet for shrapnel in conventional war more than a bullet, but it will work for both. Duh.
I mean, I'd argue it was a safe assumption to make if they knew it was a PKM that clapped him, those things are slinging 7.62x54r, them some nastly rounds.
"I have a friend of mine, FUCK"
bruh lol
when you are running the cheap high hp low armor pen bullets in tarkov
I worked in BN in 2/19 what year were you there? You don’t look familiar???
are you asking the commenter or the person modeling the helmet ?
This is Mike Glover. Here in this interview with Shawn Ryan, he details his service.
ruclips.net/video/ZBYC7QnHrQA/видео.html
Here's his interview with Jocko Willink.
ruclips.net/video/tiARo-Mql6U/видео.html
Stepping over a fallen teammate must be one of the toughest things to do as a member of Special Forces or SWAT. Mission first is the mantra but having to ignore a friend who has just gone down would be the foundation of PTSD.
Yes sir, I would be very hard to not check him out, an help him in time of need,say goodbye,last words for wife, family, or fix him up..
@@mikeyob4271 Good way to become a casualty yourself.
Never leave a man behind as they shouldn’t
Buddy of mine got hit by a sniper, his helmet redirected the bullet down into his neck. He survived and is still walking around being an absolute beast today.
This is a prime example of how far the technology for protective headgear provided to our troops has advanced. Infantrymen have been issued helmets since before the Napoleonic Wars but it wasn't until the last 15-20 years that they were worth the headache. The helmets issued during the Vietnam and Korean War were so outclassed by their contemporary firearms that they struggled to stop handguns.
this explains why cod operators dont die from a shot on the from point blanc with a 7.76
The idea of mosin sized rounds flying out of a machine gun is crazy.
Been a thing for over a century. .30-06 is even a little bigger with more energy. 7.62x51mm wouldn't be fun either and is the caliber used in the m240 as well as other weapons
A 7,62x54mmR is not a joke, that guy was lucky hopefully he lives on to have a good life.
I also had a buddy while in the humvee was shot and knocked out the next man up in the turret was shot. Original dude woke up and took the turret back. Awesome dude.
Best war footage I've ever seen: Soldiers running from hole to hole for cover while taking fire from an adjacent hill, one guy gets shot in the head but his helmet deflects it. He's unconscious for a moment and his squadmates panic thinking he's dead. He wakes up and the (medic?) asks if him if he's alright. Clearly he's still dazed but he responds "Fuck yeah, Imma stud."
That's why in movies I feel like its so goofy when they have to take their helmet off in the heat of battle
762x54R versus a helmet that is badass glad he is ok