KState_Poke22 Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Saw this on the Chive today and wanted to get the story out there. Taylor Morris is an EOD tech who is one of only a few quadruple amputee survivors after stepping on an undetected mine. Chive set up a donation fund to help him with the down payment for a cabin when he gets out of the hospital. Original goal was $30K and has now passed $100K. Talk of paying for the whole damn cabin is the latest. Story and link for donation here: http://thechive.com/2012/05/31/chivers-this-is-the-story-of-taylor-morris-22-photos/ Wow, awesome dude. You gotta give credit to the on scene medics too for stabilizing him after that kind of trauma. That's impressive work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger41 Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 This weeks featured Badass is AF Colonel John P Stapp. This guy was involved in research designed to see how fast a pilot could eject and survive, as well as others. To accomplish such research, he would go really fucking fast and then slow down even faster. His most famous run put him under 43 G's (!) of deceleration and caused him to go blind for 10 minutes. Makes those 9 K rate fights not seem so bad. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 This weeks featured Badass is AF Colonel John P Stapp. This guy was involved in research designed to see how fast a pilot could eject and survive, as well as others. To accomplish such research, he would go really ######ing fast and then slow down even faster. His most famous run put him under 43 G's (!) of deceleration and caused him to go blind for 10 minutes. Makes those 9 K rate fights not seem so bad. http://www.badassoft....com/stapp.html I had no idea that guy invented Murphy's Law. Crazy dude anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Saw this on the Chive today and wanted to get the story out there. Taylor Morris is an EOD tech who is one of only a few quadruple amputee survivors after stepping on an undetected mine. Chive set up a donation fund to help him with the down payment for a cabin when he gets out of the hospital. Original goal was $30K and has now passed $100K. Talk of paying for the whole damn cabin is the latest. Story and link for donation here: http://thechive.com/...rris-22-photos/ Looks like he made it home... If you don't frequent thechive.com often, they have taken care of a few folks in need over the last year (while posting some pictures that are easy on the eyes). Suddenly my suck factor needs to be re-calibrated, excellent welcome home tribute to him. http://thechive.com/2012/09/10/taylor-morris-comes-home-17-hq-photos/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stretch Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Badass? Your call. Still, a solid job by all. http://blog.seattlepi.com/americanaerospace/2012/09/03/remarkable-airmanship/#comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Not one mention of requiring a tail number. I call that Bad Ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toro Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Badass? Your call. Still, a solid job by all. http://blog.seattlep...nship/#comments Not bad, but I think Bob Pardo one-upped them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) Incredible.. And those weren't even the first examples... Skip to 4:00. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQEZqwvt4js&feature=player_embedded Edited September 15, 2012 by Justanothercadet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breckey Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 How did he not enter a flat spin after entering his jet wash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeA10 Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 How did he not enter a flat spin after entering his jet wash? And then headed out to sea. The dreaded horizontal flat spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 http://video.msnbc.m...111802#49111802 Dr. Lawrence Bone joins the U.S. Army at 64 years old to fill the shortage in Orthopedic Surgeons. He's the oldest physician to receive and age waiver. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M2 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 http://video.msnbc.m...111802#49111802 Dr. Lawrence Bone joins the U.S. Army at 64 years old to fill the shortage in Orthopedic Surgeons. He's the oldest physician to receive and age waiver. He made the decision to put himself in harm’s way to help men like his son, who was injured in Iraq Big time respect! But you can't ignore the irony in an orthopedic surgeon named "Bone"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK... Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 http://video.msnbc.m...111802#49111802 Dr. Lawrence Bone joins the U.S. Army at 64 years old to fill the shortage in Orthopedic Surgeons. He's the oldest physician to receive and age waiver. Freakin awesome!!! --- PK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK... Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 The dude's still got it... http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/15/us/nevada-yeager-anniversary-flight/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 --- PK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I wonder how much a pain in the ass that was. The USAF did a cool thing honoring its heritage. Yeager thought it was all about him. Standard. Pretty cool that they did it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 It's really a shame that Yeager is such an ass. Watching The Right Stuff as a kid is one of the things that first got me really interested in aviation I think, and I still thought Yeager was the man when I read his book as a teenager. Then I started to realize that in all the videos I've seen of him, he's kind of a dick! Finally I saw him speak in person at Airventure a couple years ago, and I was amazed at how arrogant he acted, even answering kids' questions from the audience. His wife even came up on stage and insisted that everyone who wants to ask a question address him as “General Yeager.” I was bummed out. Oh well. Also, "I really appreciated the Air Force giving me a brand new F-15 to fly," Yeager told CNN. Where’d they get this brand new F-15?! That’s pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger41 Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Where’d they get this brand new F-15?! That’s pretty neat. It probably only had 25 years of misguided piddle packs and incentive flyer vomit instead of the usual 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vno Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 12-year old shoots home intruder. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewpey Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 (edited) WWII Vet cremated and left behind 6 oz of shrapnel. Only told family he had "bullet" in his "bad knee". http://swns.com/news...cremated-26233/ Edited October 20, 2012 by drewpey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swizzle Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 BAMF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KState_Poke22 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 That looks like a metric shit ton of metal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 (edited) Personal friend of mine, today I watched him walk onto my college's football field only 3.5 months after loosing the lower half of both his legs. http://www.ecu.edu/news/rimpfatecu.cfm When Army First Lt. Nathan Rimpf assists officials with the opening coin toss at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Oct. 27, his family and friends from Raleigh will be in the stands cheering for him. And cheering his ability to walk onto the field.Rimpf, who graduated from ECU in 2010, was injured July 8 in Afghanistan just two months after arriving there. Rimpf’s injuries included the loss of one leg below the knee and the other leg lost through the knee, according to his mother, Cindy Rimpf......Rimpf’s rehabilitation progress has outpaced expectations. Fourteen weeks after his injury in Afghanistan, he hand-biked the Army Ten Mile Run on Oct. 21 in Washington, D.C. Edited October 28, 2012 by Scaredfuzz21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEVIL Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Tomb Guards at the Tomb of the Unknowns which has been guarded continuously, rain/shine/hurricane since 1937. (posted elsewhere on the forums, but definitely deserving as badasses of the week) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raimius Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Not to take anything away from them, as we all know they are doing the same thing right now, but that photo is from September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewpey Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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