Epic True Story Thread

In 2004 I'm out on a SR mission with an ODA in Helmand Province Afghanistan. Are mission wasn't to engage(unless we had no choice). I'm staring through my SOFLAM to get the distance to an enemy compound when an RPG comes right at us. It hits 7-8 yards in front of us. I took shrapnel through my right arm, my upper lip was pierced through and 2 teeth were cracked. I took a chunk to the neck and left side of the head. As I'm lying on the ground being worked on by the 18D I know I'm bleeding out. I pass out. During my unconsioness I see my grandmother walk by me holding a baby. She stares right at me and smiles. I wake up 3 hours later in a trauma facility with major head injuries and loss of blood. I can't speak because my upper lip was pierced through. I get back home and tell my mom what happened. She also saw her mom that night(my grandmother). I spoke with my priest about it and he said the baby your grandmother was carrying was you. She was telling you that she would take care of you. I've always been a Christian and feel free to laugh at me but if that's not proof of a higher power at work I don't know what is.
I don't have the right words to say. So I'm just going to say thanks. Thanks a lot. There are a lot of us that appreciate what you have done, and been through.

Mrhat
 
I have lived a different life than many. I'm not a gang banger or club affiliated. That being said I have many friends in prison for murder, kidnapping, etc. This happened a few years ago.
A good friend showed up at my house one morning covered in blood. Calmly said he just killed somebody and it was too fucked up to fix this time. His hands were shredded and bleeding. He wasn't going back to prison.
He proceeded to tell me the graphic details of the murder. But first a little intro to him. Crazy motherfucker. We all knew not to call him for help with an "issue" unless u wanted someone dead. Fucking sociopath. Strange though how polite and respectful he was around my family and random people in general. He also took very good care of his kids and they loved him dearly. He could pull chicks almost at will. Cycled through girlfriends like I do cars. Nice guy at first glance. Inside he was a butcher.

He tells me that the girl he had been dating for a few weeks, nice girl, had her shit together, nice truck, job, I'd met her, had gone to his house to hang out, they started drinking. Something went wrong, he stabbed her until she died. I will spare u the graphic details as I wish I never heard them. I asked him "what the fuck did u do that for"? He said "i dont know".. he told me it was his last run and told me he was going to spend the day robbing banks and mail me the money immediately until he got caught. Im like "wtf bro, wtf" he said he had to go and he would get a hold of me in a few.
I'm obviously disturbed now. He never killed any innocent people.
I Had called a few of our mutual friends in the meantime as I'm conflicted as what to do. I've known this guy for 20 years.
He pulls back in minutes later. He says "it's over, cops are at my house, I need a gun". "Fuck no" I said.. He asked if I wanted anybody killed, he would go do it right then. I told him no. He pulled a fake gun from his waistband and asked "do u think this will do it?" I replied " what? Make the cops kill you? Yeah, thatll do it". He's completely calm. He gave me a hug, gave our crew a hug, said he loved us and he left. I could see in his face it was the last time I'd see him, still remember him throwing a peace sign as he drove off. A few minutes later we heard massive gunfire. He ran the police barricade at his house, jumped out with his fake gun, got shot, and died on the concrete.

It was very surreal knowing I let a close friend drive off to his certain death. I still feel guilt for the officers that shot him. It was what he needed though. No need for prison or trial. Fucking stupid fuck...
I'm an emotional motherfucker but I never shed a tear for him. Strange emotions..
I left out many details but there is no ongoing investigation anyways so fuck it. They figured it out accurately enough.
Fucking unreal man!
 
Shit not sure if this qualifies as an epic story. But it's a fucked up one for sure that haunts me every day and I ask forgiveness for it often.

First deployment they were using children to cross in front of our convoys to stop us so that they can ambush us. I was driving the lead humvee this mission. And there was little girl in the middle of the road. I made the decision to run her over. She was no older than 10 maybe.

I was a PFC it was never reported, I believe because as soon as I ran her over we took direct fire from small arms light machine guns and of course their favorite RPG's. An RPG went right past the front of our vehicle. It was surreal just looked like a fireball.
That's a heavy burden to carry around bud. I hope you've made peace with the fact that its called war for a reason. Its fukd up shit. And our families wonder why we can't sleep at night. LMAO. You know all us vets are here for support if needed. Hope all is well bro. What happened with your girl?
 
That's a heavy burden to carry around bud. I hope you've made peace with the fact that its called war for a reason. Its fukd up shit. And our families wonder why we can't sleep at night. LMAO. You know all us vets are here for support if needed. Hope all is well bro. What happened with your girl?
My little girl is about to be 10 in July and doing well. Like you I think she had an similiar experience. I believe she saw something as she almost died and rushed into surgery at 2 months. From that day forward she is the happiest person I know.
 
Me and my life long best friend D used to do alot of cliff diving in our late teens early 20s. We took a 3rd friend along that day. I had kind of known him. He went to the neighboring counties school and i knew they both worked together at the same place. He swore up and down he could swim. And i dont think he really knew what he was in for. Well we have to hike about 2 miles down in to the valley to reach the site. There are 3 general sites to jump from that are "safe". One is a pretty conservative a straight forward 40' drop just jump off the platform. Splash in to the water. The next is a 60' that requires you walk out on to a peninsula made of rock that is very narrow then jump. The 3rd site is 100' and requires a very good running start and a mighty leap to clear the jagged rocks below. We had a good few jumps and got the day off to a good start. Turns out my boys friend got cold feet but with some convincing we got him to do it. He freaked out and missed timed his jump out of last minute reluctance and went airborne just flalling about. When he hit the water it knocked him out. H20 is like concrete if you dont pierce it like a pencil at that velocity. My buddy saw it and all 280 lbs of fat and athletic ability he had immediately jumped to his aid. Swam under recovered his body and swam him to shore which was a couple hundred feet. Resuscitated him and laughed and drank beers

Good times.
My friend D saved his life that day.
 
Shit not sure if this qualifies as an epic story. But it's a fucked up one for sure that haunts me every day and I ask forgiveness for it often.

First deployment they were using children to cross in front of our convoys to stop us so that they can ambush us. I was driving the lead humvee this mission. And there was little girl in the middle of the road. I made the decision to run her over. She was no older than 10 maybe.

I was a PFC it was never reported, I believe because as soon as I ran her over we took direct fire from small arms light machine guns and of course their favorite RPG's. An RPG went right past the front of our vehicle. It was surreal just looked like a fireball.

No winners at all bro. These are the demons that many vets battle. I definitely have some horrendous dreams. Shit being on Tren actually gives me a break from those dreams.

I can't talk about these things with my wife. She just won't understand. For me talking about helps me.

On another mission the vehicle in front of was hit with an IED. We stopped I ran out with another soldier to check on the soldiers in the vehicle. Driver was dead, I pulled him out along with all sensitive items. I've had dreams of that incident but when I see the dead soldiers face it's my oldest son.

Shit scares the shit out of me. My oldest plans to Join the Marines after he graduates from high school. I'm proud but also worried. Now I know how my loved ones felt when I volunteered to do SF and put myself deeper into harms way. I'm not scared of death. But if my son dies, he died doing what in wanted and defending this country. Sad but honorable.

Like you said bro no winners.
Damn brother i had no idea your service ran that deep. Epic? More like heroic in my eyes.
 
Me and my life long best friend D used to do alot of cliff diving in our late teens early 20s. We took a 3rd friend along that day. I had kind of known him. He went to the neighboring counties school and i knew they both worked together at the same place. He swore up and down he could swim. And i dont think he really knew what he was in for. Well we have to hike about 2 miles down in to the valley to reach the site. There are 3 general sites to jump from that are "safe". One is a pretty conservative a straight forward 40' drop just jump off the platform. Splash in to the water. The next is a 60' that requires you walk out on to a peninsula made of rock that is very narrow then jump. The 3rd site is 100' and requires a very good running start and a mighty leap to clear the jagged rocks below. We had a good few jumps and got the day off to a good start. Turns out my boys friend got cold feet but with some convincing we got him to do it. He freaked out and missed timed his jump out of last minute reluctance and went airborne just flalling about. When he hit the water it knocked him out. H20 is like concrete if you dont pierce it like a pencil at that velocity. My buddy saw it and all 280 lbs of fat and athletic ability he had immediately jumped to his aid. Swam under recovered his body and swam him to shore which was a couple hundred feet. Resuscitated him and laughed and drank beers

Good times.
My friend D saved his life that day.
Funny enough I just finished a recert of my CPR courses and I did it in abnormal classroom this time with people learning for the first time. After about 6 minutes of practice one person said they were tired and the instructor said that's fine you can stop because fatigue is one of the four reasons you're allowed to stop CPR. The instructor knew I had already had CPR cause I was a recert and asked if I've ever done it (I have more then I'd like) he then wanted me to justify her stopping and asked how long I usually go before I stop for fatigue. This man didn't know me and wasn't getting the answer he wanted.

I told him "I did CPR for 5 hours on a girl in the backcountry skiing in avalanche terrain in freezing conditions and did not stop". He didn't believe me and asked why didn't I stop I was justified to stop after 30minutes which is another 1/4 for stoping. I told him "she wasn't dead I knew there was life in her I could feel it she wasn't giving up so I wasn't going to give up". Half the room started to cry because one of the girls in there and spoke up and said thank you, it was her sister. Although she never revived with me she was later saved in the hospital and has no brain damage.

There is two times in my life I past the physical limitations and was working on pure will. One time was at the 17km mark of the run during my ironman when I hit the wall and pushed through. The other was that time for that girl because I knew for some reason even though she had no life signs, she just wasn't dead. I've seen dead and she looked alive the whole time just pulsless, it's hard to describe unless you've ever seen someone in that state.
 
Me and my life long best friend D used to do alot of cliff diving in our late teens early 20s. We took a 3rd friend along that day. I had kind of known him. He went to the neighboring counties school and i knew they both worked together at the same place. He swore up and down he could swim. And i dont think he really knew what he was in for. Well we have to hike about 2 miles down in to the valley to reach the site. There are 3 general sites to jump from that are "safe". One is a pretty conservative a straight forward 40' drop just jump off the platform. Splash in to the water. The next is a 60' that requires you walk out on to a peninsula made of rock that is very narrow then jump. The 3rd site is 100' and requires a very good running start and a mighty leap to clear the jagged rocks below. We had a good few jumps and got the day off to a good start. Turns out my boys friend got cold feet but with some convincing we got him to do it. He freaked out and missed timed his jump out of last minute reluctance and went airborne just flalling about. When he hit the water it knocked him out. H20 is like concrete if you dont pierce it like a pencil at that velocity. My buddy saw it and all 280 lbs of fat and athletic ability he had immediately jumped to his aid. Swam under recovered his body and swam him to shore which was a couple hundred feet. Resuscitated him and laughed and drank beers

Good times.
My friend D saved his life that day.
That's pretty scary. Were they quarries you were jumping into? We had some granite quarries with 90ft cliffs where I lived in mass.
 
K, a have a dull life but here goes, went to a wedding. Had good clothes in back of hatch. Reached into hatch to get clothes. As I stood up my head hit the latch that holds the hatch door down. I got a bit concussed and did not realise I tore a big gash in my scalp.

Changed into good clothes unawares of the damage, blood was pissing out all over my white shirt. (Fun fact skull and thin scalp, where the fuk so much blood?).

Anyhoo proceeded into formal part of wedding a little late, stormed thru church door and whole congregation looked in horror, women screamed, children cried. I quietly took my seat a blood soaked mess wondering what everyone was looking at.

Whole fucking wedding stopped while shit got sorted out.

OK not on par with most....but still.

Anyways, nobody there will ever forget that wedding.
 
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In jr high I was "going out" with this chick. First girl who ever let me under the bra.
Being a guy, I told my friends, and her twin brother got mad. We ended up fighting...a few times.

A few years later he started gang banging, so did most of my friends at the time. Of course they claimed different colors. End up fighting this dude again.

Anytime we saw eachother it was ON.

Fast forward maybe 10 years and Im out getting FUCKED UP. Drunk and sloppy. Meet this decent chick, take her back to the house. All night her phone is blowing up, she says its her friends. She picks up the phone and gets in an argument, when she gets off she tells me her husband is pissed at her for not coming home. Her husband? You guessed it, same fella.

She claimed it was just a coincidence, Im still not sure.
 
Im jr high I was "going out" with this chick. First girl who ever let me under the bra.
Being a guy, I told my friends, and her twin brother got mad. We ended up fighting...a few times.

A few years later he started gang banging, so did most of my friends at the time. Of course they claimed different colors. End up fighting this dude again.

Anytime we saw eachother it was ON.

Fast forward maybe 10 years and Im out getting FUCKED UP. Drunk and sloppy. Meet this decent chick, take her back to the house. All night her phone is blowing up, she says its her friends. She picks up the phone and gets in am argument, when she gets off she tells me her husband is pissed at her for not coming home. Her husband? You guessed it, same fella.

She claimed it was just a coincidence, Im still not sure.

Omg I would have ran !
 
In jr high I was "going out" with this chick. First girl who ever let me under the bra.
Being a guy, I told my friends, and her twin brother got mad. We ended up fighting...a few times.

A few years later he started gang banging, so did most of my friends at the time. Of course they claimed different colors. End up fighting this dude again.

Anytime we saw eachother it was ON.

Fast forward maybe 10 years and Im out getting FUCKED UP. Drunk and sloppy. Meet this decent chick, take her back to the house. All night her phone is blowing up, she says its her friends. She picks up the phone and gets in an argument, when she gets off she tells me her husband is pissed at her for not coming home. Her husband? You guessed it, same fella.

She claimed it was just a coincidence, Im still not sure.
That dude has to fucking hate you like you read about! I love the story.
 
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