This pic is inspirational and all but real talk how combat effective is this crippled guy IRL? I'm guessing not very

If you ask me, I’d prefer our enemies truly have skin in the game. If they don’t actually think we’re evil and were only fighting from fear than killing them is all the more tragic.

Moral faggotry aside, is it possible for injured soldiers to stay in their positions in the military after getting their limbs blown off? I imagine it’s more common for soldiers with lots of training since they can still serve advisory purposes, but I’m curious, how often does that happen? Is DA off limits for them? Robo ops sounds pretty fucking rad

he's got an AR so he's pretty useless

Yeah that guy’s got the gut for sure. Respect. You know his story?

Didnt they ban blade runner legs from sporting events for being too good? Operators should have their real legs removed and use those. The African ambush dudes woulda made it.

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So what you're saying is that this guy is not combat effective in any kind of real war. Without constant maintenance and access to FedEx and industrial civilization his peg leg will fail.

Yeah giant springs are too good for running in a straight line. Big surprise

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They banned on suspicion it might be too good, but that guy couldn't actually keep up with real legged athletes

>Plus the shooter/ small team skills are too valuable to quickly ditch.
I always wondered about that, just how valuable ARE the minds behind the trigger?

Also, while the tank you for your servix shit is retarded, good on you for actually giving a fuck at the VA, someone has to try.

>above the knee amputation/prosthetic
This man is NOT going on missions. If anything he's an FOBBIT sentry poser fag, with Hepatitis C

Not to be a dick, it's a badass picture and all but isn't hanging on to your cool guy job after missing a limb just to prove you can a liability to your team?

If you must keep serving, why not become an instructor, a support POG or something and let some young stud get the gig?

Sure but it was a different time, they were getting desperate for anyone capable of flying their planes.

After watching that video of the guy with one leg out perform all the women at climbing, I'd pick the guy with the one leg over all women.

The fact that he was one of the highest scoring aces of WWII kind of ruins your "he was just a desperation hire" theory

>your "he was just a desperation hire" theory
You found one outlier, who is making theories?

He was an experienced and skilled airman, not "anyone"

That guy came last place by the way.

It all comes down to experience. Would you rather have a raid completed by a fresh idiot straight out of AIT or someone who has done it for years? Pretty obvious IMO

> Good for you
Shouldn't he be admin or recruiter?

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>Prosthetic project, attempting to get the VA to adopt local "fabrication" facilities instead of farming out the shit. With additive manufacturing and the maker community, there was some real promise out there.
Can you talk more about this? I've always wondered why this wasn't done to lessen the cost of custom fitting/manufacturing, but I don't know enough about it to know whats feasible.

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I love the fact that even when in a POW in Colditz the Germans there had ridiculous respect for him. Though due to his continued escape attempts they had to take his tin legs away. Yet he still made attempts.

>encounters a rock
>begins uncontrollable backflips

I hardly find amputee vets "inspirational." I don't know about you, but they're a dime a dozens around here. Easily make up 75% of the homeless population.
Serve Uncle Sam, boys.

>(((Uncle Sam)))

> oy vey!

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He's got a very valuable skill set, he does not need to charge an MG nest when he has a radio that sends a signal to CAP at the speed of light

could he have kept going in an emergency, or did he
have no choice but to stop and adjust?

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>but the goat fuckers, they strongly believe we are fighting for the forces of evil, and an army that worships death

Can you blame 'em really?

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This thread makes me want to operate so bad it hurts

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Yeah man why can't they just let us bomb them and be cool with it? Bunch of backwards goat fuckers. Don't they know we're the good guys?

>Get shot for a country's economic interests

>Be dumb enough to risk getting shot again

>INSPIRATIONAL

In 2011, a guy with 2 prosthetic legs placed 4th in the annual Baton Death March Memorial Ruck out at White Sands Missle Range. It's a long ass march and some really rough ass terrain, so I'd say depending on the user they can be pretty fucking awesome.

Prosthetic manufacturing is a specialized process and is bottlenecked at the fitting stage. Setting aside the cost and logistic issues of using multiple smaller manufacturers rather than one or two large manufacturers, the "maker community" is a bunch of amateurs and hobbyists. From a personal perspective, would you rather get a prosthetic made by a company that specializes in them or would you rather get a prosthetic assembled from parts sourced from multiple vendors who may not otherwise have anything to do with medical equipment?

It’s a publicity photo. It’s not real.
You can’t even enlist with flat feet let alone keep operating with a fucking peg leg
That picture is fabricated to make the photographer a assload of money

Lose a leg, lose sanity, get PTSD... be forever reminded that you fought wars for other countries in some middle eastern sandbox.

>You can’t even enlist with flat feet let alone keep operating with a fucking peg leg
"let's just throw out the guy with 6+ years of proper operator door kicking experience because he lost a leg"

there was an F-15E pilot who ejected at something like 700 knots, so supersonic, both of his arms were broken, his elbows were bent backwards, one of his legs was only attached by veins, what was left of the muscle and the skin, the other guy in the jet died

the air force let him fly once he recovered

>let's just throw out the guy with 6+ years of proper operator door kicking experience because he lost a leg

yes because those guys a dime a dozen whereas pilots are constrained by a small training pipeline

No legs meant less space in the extremities for blood to flow when turning, which meant he could pull off higher G turns than most other pilots.

Fuck off with that

>mad at the facts

I've known some worthless pilots, sorry. Plus women can do that job.

>Losing limbs for ZOG by mindless fitness meathead who does not understand nuances of Israeli control of foreign policy

Yeah, no.

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Can't have drop in blood pressure if blood has nowhere to drop

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>The mobile infantry made me the man i am today

Prosthetic limbs are good psyops. Americans be cyborg killers and shiet, Ahmed.

>women pilots are more valuable than dime-a-dozen cannon fodder

aw shit

Really?

Probably still 100x better than you.

>cannon fodder
Regular line soldiers aren’t gonna get their leg blown off and come back for more, if they had that much commitment they’d just go to an actual unit that gets shit done.
The guy in OPs post is probably some high speed guy, or at least more high speed than actual cannon fodder.

Real shit in the book they plop his torn up ass at the front desk so that people who sign up get a bit a a wake up call that this could happen to you.

>high speed speshul farces can't be cannon fodder

there's a reason frat boy douchebags are filling SEAL ranks, casualties have thinned their ranks significantly

I like when he sees the recruiter later, with his shiny prosthetics on, and they had him sitting there at the desk looking broken as fuck to make people think it through. The movie adaptation is an abomination.

>cannon fodder is any DA element that takes casualties
>SEALs are cannon fodder
Stay retarded.

cannon fodder is anyone for whom casualties is considered acceptable by the politicians who give them orders

i.e. the entire military

The truly loyal are always needed.

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Yeah, check the cop in the video below @ 59 seconds. He could work his prosthetic no problem.

youtu.be/ADTdMeHlZak?t=59s

Y'all seen that COPS clip where the officer with a prosthetic leg catches a guy in a foot pursuit? Shit was pretty sweet.

Mayne I let chu catch me

This thread is why we can never have a normal society.

Idiots look at a pic of a guy who sold his body to obama, rightly got punished trying to murder some sob far away with our money, goes back to doing it, and idiots get a hard on for it.

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>"let's just throw out the guy with 6+ years of proper operator door kicking experience because he lost a leg"

If your experience has led you to losing a leg...

>6 years of getting shot at
>gets shot once
>thousands upon thousands of rounds sent his way
>only finds .025% of them with his leg
meanwhile, chapped ass user regularly doesnt wipe his ass well enough to keep from being butthurt.

The fitting process is the bottleneck but its also the excuse being used to drag up prosthetic prices unnecessarily. Assuming the prosthesis' attachment point and proportions (inc gait) are maintained to proper standards, the rest could be done by any manufacturer and even amateurs and hobbyists. But you still pay out the nose for the rest of the hardware, even when they're largely generic parts because they can get away with it.

digits

>be American
>join the US Army and become a ZOGbot because that's all your 56% country stands for and that's all you're good for
>lose leg (small price to pay for the glory of Greater Israel)
>receive a prosthetic leg
>return to the sandbox because you're good for nothing but being cannon fodder
>take pics of yourself in the sandbox, showing off your prosthetic leg because you wanna show everyone how tough n hardcore you are
>continue fighting for Greater Israel
Jokes on him desu.

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This guy gets it.

Until we develop GitS tier tech these unfortunate cripples should have the same roll they had for literally all of history

>roll
Role, not roll.

>Has the whole plot figured out
>Totally got those kikes exposed
>Only it doesn't matter because you are a shut in NEET with nothing to show for your life

Yeah yeah JOOOOOOSSSS what ever.

>SOON

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he probably has built a relationship with the locals and they want him doing the negotiating with them.

Dunno, that scene is still in the movie

youtube.com/watch?v=FoPTPe33PQY

If pic related is the guy I'm thinking of he was army special forces. He really, really didn't want to separate so they through him through a monster battery of physical tests including ranger school or some shit. He passed with flying colors but upon thorough personal reflection he realized that if the leg ever went down he'd be putting his entire team at risk so he decided not to re enter the sandbox and instead took either a training job or he separated.

me responding to me, to respond to all of you.

most guys I know were wisked away back stateside, by the time you get your shit fixed and get your "fake" as some guys will call it, you are already out of shape, and out of training. Unless you are early into your next enlistment and willing to fight or have a valuable skillset, it is fucking over. For now. DeusEx was onto something when it talked about a solider "re-up" program, but prosthetics are too juvenile right now.

Without logistics his leg would fail after he ran out of ammo, most major failures can and often are locally adressed until a more permanent solution is available. I have seen juryrigged shit that made my head spin. Electric actuators drilled out, replaced with a solid rod, and some leaf springs. The predictive movement was lost because, well, no computer, but the ankle was able to flex and movement was available once more. Never underestimate a veteran with spare time and nothing else to do.

The minds are exactly as valuable as there are replacements. If its an in-demand field, you'd be surprised. Stop Loss is a fascinating subject. And thanks for the VA shit, it ground me down and i am out now. but I tried. Did a lot of high level documentation and catagorizing, to include 1890 some worldwide facilities, and their metadata.
It was fucking politics. "We are worried about the repercussions to our commercial partners" meaning fuckers at the top get a slice of the pie. I'll tell you what I told my leadership. "fuck them, we are not an economy simulator."

no.

they are backwards, and our leadership of the obama and bush era had dubious motivation. They are unaware of the differentiation between good and bad, beyond what does and does not benefit them or their tribe. nothing else matters past that. They will murder a child, or give false intel to generate an airstrike on another village out of spite, boredom, or grudge.

My plan as laid out was to distribute 3d handscanners and a short tutorial video accessible over the intranet. Anyone could be trained up, and credentials could be used to validate self registry as training. Scanning what was left of the stump would allow for a good socket fit the first time instead of the usual "make, fit, send back, adjust, fit, etc." real world data does not back up that the major manufacturers are shit hot like you think. And a commercial vs "maker" unit both get beaten to shit, but we should allow the veteran the choice of what they get, and how quick they get it.

Once scanned we could have made, and fabricated via extrusion and SLS, coupled with available micro controllers. We are talking same week fitting. We are talking about an inventory of semi custom equipment, ready to go inside of a day, all for less than the cost of one commercial limb.

Even with a lifespan of 80% that of the commercial, at about 85% usability compared to it in terms of actual task accomplishment in dexterity, the cost was less than 10%. that includes man hours.

The project was killed, because it threatened major VA phrosthetics projects for build out of huge traditional facilities for in house fabrication already "underway" in terms of contracting had drafted a plan, and money was somewhat allocated. Yet by the time I left, 4 years after the fact, they still had not done shit, or even broken ground.

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The big takeaway from my rant would be this; the VHA is a diseased limb of the VA. Trump signing the veteran's preference act allows everyone to move away from it and seek care from universities who want to research the problems unique to the community, or a civilian setting where the doctors are liable for their actions and thus a bit more cautious.

also: other shit that was canned, but in talks in 2014. keep that in mind: 2014.
-Phage therapy (nearly fucking free. deals with major infections that are a huge problem)
-Ultrasonic imaging to replace or augment X-rays, thus reducing ionizing energy exposure.
-Trying to partner (joint fund) with universities for experimentals, at the veteran's own liability and understanding, with the agreement of datashare, for items like Genetic therapy, stem cell research, etc. our "ethics" committee decided that people who were desperate to survive could not make a decision on something that would risk their life, despite ya know, already fucking being fated for death.

Fun stories: Talking about veterans medication mishaps at Portland during a major meeting, and a fuckhead doctor decides to show us cartoons and talk about how smart he is and his mismatched socks for about 3 hours. MDs should be prohibited from holding any fucking position of authority. You don't make a pilot with no training a CEO, dont fucking make a doctor a facility manager. They fail time and time again.

I'm out.

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No he got it

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>they strongly believe we are fighting for the forces of evil, and an army that worships death. It's not something to be proud of.
Implying I give a fuck what these savages believe and will let it impact what I take pride in

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>I had hands on a Prosthetic project
Well duh, I mean, wouldn't that be 50% of your workload?

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The african ambush dudes were unfathomably retarded and had it coming

This is why you will eventually lose, as usual.

I can tell you’re a pathetic, ineffectual man who maintains his ego by ripping on others accomplishments

What DA element doesn’t take casualties you fucking mouthbreather. That’s part of the job, you don’t have any combat unit so elite that they’re immortal. Go learn words faggot

>Hurr Durr without a supply chain the soldier will fail

No shit sherlock

They rape little kids user. My dad kicked a door in in Afghanistan only to find a 12 year old getting gangbanged. They blow up little girls fetching water from wells. They publicly behead tribe leaders standing up to terrorists. Not all are like this but the ones that are are fucking backwards.

Don't laugh, I read once that afghans thought the ballistic glasses our soldiers wore allowed them to see through clothing.

Fuck off Carlos

12 year old boy or girl?

boy, probably