Well as I am a soldier in Iraq and sometimes have some freetime on my hands as do some of my friends, we decided to make a video. The link is below . . feel free to comment, I can take it.
Okey, dokey… I’m not sure I could get that bored. But whatever floats your boat!
(Thanks for serving, by the way.)
Well, I suppose if soldiers ever encounter drop-kicking insurgents we have nothing to worry about 
Doesn’t work for me. Threw three consecutive browsers that URL; I get an empty box with nonworking “play” and “volume” buttons at the bottom.
Guy stands in a storage locker wearing his armor. Another guy grabs the top of the doorframe of the open door, swings back and forth a few times to pick up speed, and kicks the armored solder square in the chest, knocking him back about 10 feet to collapse into a pile of boxes, contents unknown.
All to the tune of “Another One Bites the Dust.”
There are probably less fun ways to test the armor.
Wow. That is way too much like the kind if thing I’d do when my friends and I are bored.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
Isn’t that some sort of ritual they do right after you re-up?
Honey, you done good. I appreciate you, I love you. I don’t quite understand why you’re there, but I back you as individuals all the way. Keep workin’ on it. Get the hell out of there!
Here I thought this was gonna be about the 82nd Airborne.
Being male, getting together to kick each other in the chest makes more-or-less perfect sense to me.
What I don’t understand is how this is in any way ‘testing’ the protective capability of these vests. Really… relatively slow-moving large surface area blunt objects? THIS is what you’re trying to defend against?
Seriously, besides the very basic amount of padding these vests give you, the only thing you’re testing here is your buddy’s ribcage.
And what’s with the boxes, anyway?
Still, that’s pretty funny stuff.
Well done and everything, but it’ll be a long time before we see another ‘is this the way to armadillo’.
Now **that ** was funny
Skippy: That’s some funny stuff. . sad thing is . . I have done quite a few things on that list as well.
As for the testing of the body armor, its not, lol, we just wanted something some what comical to start it up with.
Now that’s funny . . but I must admit . .I’ve done quite a few things on that list as well. . .
As for the reference to the 82nd - I am in the 101st - never confuse the two, wars start because of lesser things
As for the testing of the body armor, its really not effective testing but it was comical =)
Guinastasia :
So you had good ole LTC Steele eh? He’s COL Steele and the CDR of my Brigade now . .
Ha! Chest kicking to music! Sweet! That makes me think of…pretty much my entire life after I turned about 12 years old, which is when (as we all know), beating the crap out of your friends becomes hilarious. I am 35 and will still occasionally (getting a little fragile) get into the random friend-fu for laughs.
Also, thanks for serving. Don’t really think we should be there in the first place, but I am sincerly grateful for those who are in the military doing their duty.
Suggested techniques for the marine to use in the avoidance of boredom and loneliness:
I have broken 400 views now. Yippeee