US Marine freaks out with professionalism in lightning storm.
The most regal āfuck that shitā I've ever seen
I will disregard that excrement and take my leave. Good day. I said good day!
Medal of Horror recipient
Good time for a quick security check inside.
He was clenching hard on his way in.
Didn't want those white pants to turn brown
"Captain, thirty ships are approaching!"
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"Bring me my brown pants"
The poor guy is wearing white trousers. No wonder he had to make a break for the loo.
Should have worn his brown pants
Not much a freak out, but a jump, followed by a very reasonable decision that the lightning was too close to remain outside. I imagine he even had prior orders that dictated he go inside.
Idk how it works for them, but for my job in the AF, lightning within 5 nm meant you go inside
Reasonable, if lightning struck within five nanometers of me I'd definitely want to go inside (of a hospital).
TouchƩ
Is there a reason they use nautical miles instead of kilometers or statute miles?
No fucking clue
Nice. We used BMNT and EENT (begin morning nautical twilight & end evening nautical twilight) in the army for planning light levels or whatever. When I got to the coast guard and asked about it people looked at me like I was growing a dick out of my forehead.
While weāre at it letās talk about Zulu time. Iāve always been Army. We never used it in Iraq but we did in Astan. I was told the morning meeting was at 0330 and was like WTF but it was like 9 or 10am
Lol, commanderās discretion? I use Zulu a lot now, but the area I work with has two time zones so it makes sense.
I don't know, but that makes a hell of a lot more sense than 5 nanometers as I had read it
I thought it was a joke about the military. "No leaving your post even if lightning repeatedly strikes within a centimeter of you!"
It's to calculate distance/time with latitude.
You're traveling on sea, how else you "mark" your location?
There's no "seamark" equivalent of landmark.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nautical-mile-knot.html
Ah, that makes sense with aircraft using lat/long
The Marines are part of the Navy (which they hate to admit) which uses knots.
for my job in the AF
Theyāre in the Air Force though
Knots are used in aircraft tech too. Navies were early researchers in aircraft technology early on. The first flying boats for example.
What about the guards at Arlington? They never leave the tomb of the unknown soldier (I forget what it's called) is what I always see on Reddit.
The Tomb is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in all but the most extreme of weather conditions ā such as intense lightning or a hurricane that threatens the safety of the sentinel. source
AFAIK all of these sort of guards have those orders. The only exception being the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier guards.
"Noope"
He needs a thunderbuddy!
Fuck you, thunder!
He professionally stepped on in to clean the doody he just shat out his ass
He took it in his stride...now he has to go change those pants
Maybe he's got PTSD
Agree, " maybe it was a gunshot? I better go inside just in case? "
"freak out" is a bit of an exaggeration if you ask me.
I don't blame him I ain't been living right I would have done the same thing lightning will kill you boy
Permission to Nope, sir?!
He's been in it. You can tell. He needed a moment
Should have worn the brown pants.
Semper Fi, Marine! I would've ducked in after that one too - that was way, way too close.
So was this like ok for him to do? Iām not a marine. Just curious. I woulda done the same damn thing.
Hey, yes, this is within protocol for guarding a post, especially given inclement weather and the perceived immediate threat to the safety of the guard on duty. I knew a few dudes on MSG duty like the guy in the OP video and they occasionally had to go inside like this.
Thatās good to know. He flinched a little bit, but who wouldnāt. I was out at a Air Force base in Wichita Falls Texas and the week I was there we had a gnarly thunder storm and tornado warning come through. Iām from the California central coast area and the lightning I saw there had me thinking the second coming of Christ was upon us.
Nothing like an ego check in tornado alley to get the blood pressure spiking!
Best to be livin right.
The lightning is the least of your worries. A Sheppard jackrabbit can reduce a man to bones in under an hour
Ha!!! I remember those little fuckers!
Little?! If you hit one of those bastards with your car, you'd total the car
True. Especially since the government only let me rent a little ford fiesta. Fuck that car. I thought I was going to float away during the flash flood we had. A lot happened to me in the week I was there.
Wait, when were you there? Because when I was there, we had a flash flood that floated a firetruck going out the main gate
I was only out there for a week for climbing and rescue training back in 2016.
Sheppard jackrabbit
I assume we are not talking about the bunny?
Not the little cottontails. The other ones
What are the other ones?
The horse-sized beasts with the dead eyes
This job looks like a nightmare
Guard duty is extremely boring even when you're sitting at a desk. Standing the whole time in a thunderstorm has definitely gotta suck.
The thunderstorm would make it more interesting until you almost get struck, then it's scary
The job itself is probably really boring and unpleasant while youāre there, but Iām sure being assigned to the White House is very prestigious and good for a military career so itās probably worth it in the long run.
Professionally shat his pants
He thought his charge was finally getting assassinated for a second there
no. in a second he would be assassinated by getting charged up, is my thought.
i am trying to make puns here. was that any good? i am not all too happy with it.
He went inside to change his drawers.
š¶ the one weakness, and no enemy can use it lol
America disagrees
There has never been a more professional nope
So smooth
PTSD go brrrrrrrrrr
It was time for the changing of the guard....into his brown pants
He probably has instructions to go inside if thereās visible lightning. When I was in the military our command would tell us to get inside or if out in the field weād spread out so it wouldnāt spread if someone did get hit. People probably underestimate how much metal these guys are wearing. Theyāre basically miniature lightning rods.
Yup, this guy isnāt going to shit his pants under enemy fire.
My man's said fuck that respectfully tho
PTSD
Could have been in combat before and had a quick flashback.hell in the seventies after boot camp I had flashbacks.those guys came back from nam was our trainers and all I can say is wow.but they trained us well.
About a month after I got back in country in 03, I was in a car that ran over loose gravel and some of it flipped up and hit the underside of the car. Iāll swear on anything all I heard was small arms rounds hitting the car. Damn near shit my pants. Ducked down so fast started scanning the horizon looking for where it was coming from before I realized what really happened. So much adrenaline dumped in to my system in those seconds I ended up shaking in my seat for a minute coming down off it. Iām just glad I wasnāt driving or we probably wouldāve wrecked. It was so embarrassing.
People that never been there canāt understand!
āHell nopeā but with distinction