And now that cameraman has a lifetime of medical conditions to deal with
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Fucking dolt just standing there near a danger close.
I don't think he intended to stand right where a hypersonic missile was about to explode lol
True, but my mind went to it's some boot marine looking up like a turkey
To be fair, he probably should have attempted to take cover, since he's fucked regardless if he's too close but at a middle range it might spare him some degree of injury and it's not like he had anything better to do.
can you explain?
Complications from standing near a blast (blast overpressure) include immediate or delayed injuries to gas-filled organs, such as ruptured eardrums, "blast lung" (pulmonary contusion/hemorrhage), and bowel perforations. Survivors may also experience traumatic brain injury (TBI), cognitive issues, severe headaches, and, from secondary fragments, penetrating injuries.
From what I gather off google
Even the mild concussion from being anywhere near an explosion also massively increases the rate of PTSD, too. Something about that kind of injury apparently sends the underlying mechanism that creates PTSD into overdrive, even in the absence of more direct trauma. It kind of makes sense it was originally named for that phenomenon ("shellshock") before it became understood that other things could also cause it, when this particularly sort of (comparatively mild) injury causes it at such a massively disproportionate rate that even the military couldn't deny that being on the receiving end of artillery fire was doing something even in the absence of visible injuries.
bare minimum, tinnitus
WHAT? mawp
Only 6 dead soldiers BTW.
How removed from consequences must the average US soldier be to just sit there and record this missile while it is literally heading right for the base? Granted, there probably isn't much they could've done to get away in time, but phone out recording it like this? This is probably the dumbest one of these kinds of videos I think I've ever seen, and I've seen vids of people recording bison and rhinos charging directly at them while they still just stand there and record it.
Idk about you, but I couldn't tell the trajectory till it was too late. Also, I've been fired on, sometimes you just watch incoming.
It's more the "phone out recording" part of it that bothers me. I get someone freezing up in that situation, but recording it just feels like they were more concerned with the likes on social media than they were with their own life.
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