If you read the one I posted it says he did get nominations for several purple hearts and he ever so graciously turned them down. :rolleyes:
No, but I’m farting up a storm!
Apparently he took a blow or two to the ol’ melon over the years.
Yeah, how did that pass the editors? Total fail all around.
Actual NVA deaths were (at max) 1,100,000, and the US lost 58,000 troops. Meaning a ratio of about 18:1.
Snerk.
And one would hope he doesn’t even want to count the additional million plus civilian deaths in the war.
Having check around the net, it looks like the amount of force needed to break a neck is around 700 lbs. Other sites say that hangings used to try to keep the force under 11000 lbs to avoid decapitation. I don’t think there is any way a human could generate that amount of force in a fight.
A commissioned warrant officer does have a commission and is a commissioned officer.
Also, a warrant, and is a warranted officer. Or at least, he/she had, and was, before being promoted. Dunno if the warrant is withdrawn when the officer is commissioned.
Commissioned Warrant Officer is a career path for very powerful Warrant Officers. They have a special title because they remain “specialists” rather than general officers.
Excellent tl;dr
I’d want to know the ‘using his weight’ and ‘torque’ that made this possible. There’s a lot of stuff to tear and break before a head comes off.
Of course you can. It’s why I don’t wear a ring. Happens when your ring gets cought on a truck, or a fence, or a machine. Happens to kids when their ring gets cought on a merry-go-round.
I’ve never hear of an industrial accident where a mans hand is ripped off: typically, a hand does NOT come off: the machine sucks your whole lower arm in and mangles on it.
For heads, the nearest I can think of is hair: all to easy to have a chunk of your scalp ripped off.
Never heard of a head getting popped off except in band-saw accidents, and those are just old war stories machinests tell.
I am currently litigating a case where a man’s hand was ripped off by a drilling rig.
Are we talking shear or tensile?
Fingers could be both, granted.
A bit of both, I think. Hand and drill were both in a borehole. Drill/sides of borehole won.
Hulk Hogan would often use a razor to make a small tear in his shirt before the match. It’s much easier to rip a shirt off your body if you are just widening an existing tear, rather than starting from scratch.
Perhaps this guy would secretly make a small cut in the enemies neck before battles so he could then rip the head off and look really strong in front of his friends?
It reads like he held the head steady and spun the body around. :rolleyes:
Well it would be the same technique as they use to pull a man’s beating heart out of his chest. You just have to sneak into the enemy barracks the previous night and make a small nick in the skin.
Thanks you two, I snorted! Just what I need to read at 4:30am!
Jesse Ventura was a member of the underwater demolitions teams that predecessed the SEALs. All members of that team were honorarily classified as SEALs.
One of the write ups said he declined the purple hearts.
I have decapitated a chicken with my bare hands. That is exactly the technique. You hold the chicken head in one hand and the feet by the other. Then you twirl the chicken like twirling a lasso, holding the head and swinging the body around. It comes clean off, and the chicken body runs off across the yard. (Yes, that really happens.)
His description implies he was doing something of the sort, using the person’s body weight and inertia to counter the twist he applied to the head. I don’t think it is the kind of thing you could do by reaching out with two hands in front of you and twisting the head. However, grabbing an arm around the head and doing a full body twist like a judo throw… It still seems unlikely.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get any volunteers to help me test this out. Maybe I can remember this the next time I get attacked by a mugger or a home invader comes crashing in my door - I can think, “I need to test pulling a guy’s head off” and try some different techniques.
Well, there you go. Mr. Super Soldier was undoubtedly fighting with a chicken that was wearing the uniform of an enemy combatant, hence the mistaken identity.
I’d run away too, if you threw a chicken’s head at me - that voodoo’s some scary stuff.
If I’m your enemy, you also haven’t shown me much respect by ripping off my buddy’s head OR by throwing it at me. :eek:
Not just a full grown man, but a trained enemy combatant – with neck and shoulder muscles built up from months and months of physical training. :dubious:
I wouldn’t even believe Mr. Nationalism used a hidden wire to make the job easier. If I understand correctly, properly placing a wire garrotte isn’t easy when surprising an unsuspecting target, much less in the middle of a multi-assailant fight to the death. It would most likely get snagged on bone.
Any time you create your own style (or steal collections of techniques from other styles and give the whole bundle a new name) you’re automagically the GrandMaster of the style. And GrandMaster rank is often assumed to be 10th degree black. The stupid thing was a former student of mine who had three left feet (yeah, even clumsier than the typical klutz) decided to drop out and create his own style – and gave himself only a 5th degree black belt. :smack:
Really? How did he reconcile the fact that the Great America he’s grandstanding for used its military to steal every inch of ground from beneath his ancestors’ feet and relegate them to wastelands (until useful metals and minerals were discovered underground)? By acting as that military’s reaper against other cultures?
Even if we somehow believe his tales, he’s selling a brawn-without-brains idol. That’s not what we need in our populace or its leadership.
–G!