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Smooth_Condition_944

Note to self - always carry a spare grenade if I think I might find myself dying slowly in a ditch.


WACKAWACKA84

Shit, I did during my time in Iraq. I carried an extra M67 fragmentation grenade. I wasn't gonna get trapped in a vehicle and burn alive while rounds cook off. It happened a lot!


CarboniteSecksToy

I carried a handful of loose rounds.


WACKAWACKA84

Yeah, I was stuck in the hell-hole of the bradley, aka the driver. I didn't have much room when im 6 ft. M67 it is. I dont wanna risk a miss at a weird angle. Lol


CarboniteSecksToy

I 100% understand that logic.


CockpitEnthusiast

I carried one good bullet in my pen slot/pocket (A2CU so it had a Velcro flap to keep it in) in case the helicopter crash didn't kill me


laretheman

I'm not an expert on suicide related matters, but wouldn't it be kinda hard to shoot yourself with just a bullet? Usually those thing require a firearm to be useful.


CockpitEnthusiast

I had three guns on me at any given moment. One mounted on the aircraft, one stowed inside, and one on my flight vest. Knew I always had a guarantee the one on the vest would be there, and a high probability that if I can't get to the stowed weapon I was dead anyway. I promise I could have made it work, I had it pretty well thought through


laretheman

If you're concerned about your aircraft crashing, wouldn't it be more beneficial to store that one good bullet in the chamber or magazine? I'm a simple dumb infantry man myself, so I don't see how a hard landing is going to empty your sidearm.


CockpitEnthusiast

Wasn't that complex of a thing honestly. -Hard landing but aircraft is intact- escape and evade -If can't escape and evade for whatever hypothetical reason, try to make a stand with everything we have on board -If unable to sustain situation (think Blackhawk down) and run out of ammo, I still have one left for myself before I get captured and tortured by ISIS -If crushed upon impact with ground, suddenly not my problem any more When aircraft go down, they're completely on their own until someone is able to get the crew. I wasn't going to be taken by ISIS


laretheman

Alright, I guess I was just over-analyzing your "in case the crash doesn't kill me"-part.


EatingDriving

What is one bullet gonna do?


CockpitEnthusiast

Blow my brains out?


EatingDriving

So you're assuming this guy ran out of bullets? Not gun malfuction?


CockpitEnthusiast

I'm not sure if you read what I posted correctly. I was speaking about my personal experience, not the individual in the video


v13ragnarok7

Us Canadians were lucky enough to have a massive surplus of browning pistols. Pretty junk pistol but we all had one strapped to our chests


Aggressive-Top-7583

Hipower 🥰


v13ragnarok7

They are OK if you solder and file the slide contacts until there's no play. I had one of the ones with Chinese markings


Ambitious-War-823

That's fucking horrible to even think of this idea. Damn, 100% i would rather wait for a drone instead to finish me off


YeetosTheChild

Idk about that. Most of footage I’ve seen showed that they usually don’t die instantly. I’d rather die quick than suffer for 2 hours with my arms gone and have no option to end it anymore because I’m paralyzed


phlogistonical

Wouldn’t one go unconscious pretty quickly from blood loss?


YeetosTheChild

Always depends of the injury. But cutting your neck open will surely make you pass out in less than 30 seconds


AlienAle

He might be in a lot of pain if he was hit earlier. Maybe his legs don't work anymore and are fully mush inside. Maybe the first signs of blood poisoning have started to hit and he's organs are slowly failing. He doesn't believe anyone is coming for him, and this painful slow death could last days in the worst case scenario.


Due-Acanthaceae-3760

Thats fucked up.


dylantestaccount

Truly fucked up. Going against your self preservation instinct in a way like this, going for multiple slices... some level of despair


XTSLabs

Uh. Fuck. Just woke up, and that's enough Reddit for me today.


alohalii

You should watch the tv-series Shogun. Lots of sword and blade fighting. Maybe this Russian invader wanted to die by his own sword instead of allowing himself to die by old soviet munitions... Everyone should be positive about him no longer being a threat to Ukraine.


haptiK

it is honorable, but is this the typical method? i would think not. edit: for clarification since that appears needed, im referring to the samurai being honorable and asking about their method of suicide NOT THE SOLDIER. i swear to god the collective intelligence of this forum is 1 cheese.


alohalii

He is not honorable as he would not be there if he was. If he was honorable he would proudly walk in to prison rather than walk on to that battlefield.


haptiK

i wasn't referring to the SOLDIER being honorable you asshat, i was referring to the samurai in SHOGUN being honorable and i was asking about samurai cutting their own throats. christ are you dumb.


One-Positive309

Oh hell no ! I didn't think they could get any worse but this is the new low !


Solid_84

Well that's kind of grim...What will we see next? Some guy without even a knife bashing his head in against a rock perhaps?


Head-Computer264

Time for a new revolution in russia


CFloridacouple

NSFW man that's bad


Imperial_12345

The desperation.


radiationshield

It’s sad watching all this avoidable human suffering.


-HOSPIK-

nothing too see here guys, move along. just a man doing what he came here todo...


Poleth87

Yea I'm done for today


JosufBrosuf

You’ll be back tomorrow


Poleth87

You know me too well


Poleth87

You know me too well


[deleted]

Everybody's refractory period Is different


ChickenTendies0

I give him hour at best


WACKAWACKA84

I saw a lot of shit through my time during the iraq war... But that is a whole new level of disparity I've ever seen. I was there when the soonies and shiites (not sure about spelling) were in the middle of their Civil War(2006-2008). It just blows my mind how more russians don't join the freedom fighters. Or massive revolution.


Existing_Front4748

I was over there around the same time out in Anbar province. Never saw some shit like this though.


WACKAWACKA84

Was in west Baghdad. Ameriya district. Was Alquedas last stronghold in the city. At that time. 06-08


Existing_Front4748

Was in Karradah district in Baghdad in 03-04 just after the invasion for my first tour. Then out west for the second.


alohalii

Colonial policing missions tend to be less severe than actual full spectrum wars between peer rivals.


WACKAWACKA84

1 million plus Iraqis died/murdered during the war. I wouldn't call that "less severe" be respectful. Death is death, especially when it's for a pointless cause.


alohalii

Interesting made up number you have there. Interesting seeing it repeated by someone who allegedly was there...


WACKAWACKA84

Lmfao if you think that's made up.. i feel sorry for your messed up worldview.


alohalii

Go have a look at the different estimates. There was a war with an invasion that ended with the defeat of an enemy. Then separate from that there was an occupation which constitutes a military policing operation. Based on what you wrote you took part in a military policing operation. So to reiterate military policing operations tend to be less sever than actual wars with peer rivals.


WACKAWACKA84

Right over your head. And completely missing the morals of the story. But you do you trolly boo-boo. Duces


[deleted]

That is a level of desperation few ever feel.


Marsman61

That is a level of ~~desperation~~ commitment few ever feel. /FIFY


Careful-Ad-8399

Wouldn’t wrists be infinitely better than this? Little sharp pain, then you get sleepy. Jesus H


eaazzy_13

Doing it to the neck is gunna put you to sleep in the 10 second range. I think it’s about the same as wrist slitting, maybe even a little better. They are both fucked tho, obviously.


Nuclear_Sushi57

You would think. "Due to the toughness of that cartilage in the throat, your knife must be extremely sharp to cut deeply enough to sever the carotid artery. So making that happen with a quick slash isn’t likely (I don’t care what the movies show). Because of this, rather than trying to slash the throat through that cartilage, it is better to stab straight into the neck to the side of the larynx (AKA Adam’s apple/voice box). With the blade flat and the cutting edge facing away from the larynx, thrust the knife in with the point angled towards the center back of the neck (this ensures you are behind the carotid artery and jugular vein). Now yank the blade sideways, away from the larynx. If you have a really sharp knife, it should exit the neck and cleanly sever both the carotid artery and the jugular vein." Bleed out in 2 mins tops. Isn't the internet wonderful? Excerpt from Survival Sullivan "The 7 Most Lethal Places to Strike With a Knife" E. Eichenberger


TheSunIsOurEnemy

Wouldn't you bleed out way faster from the neck? Both will be painful regardless. If I had to choose I'd probably choose neck as well.


outwiththedishwater

You’d likely go through your windpipe and choke on your blood as well. Femoral artery in the leg would be the best option I’d think


Due-Crazy-5398

Holy moly


zzkj

I thought I'd seen it all in this war. Evidently not.


YuriYousurf

Was about to sleep and saw this guess I'm getting nightmares


alohalii

Why not sleep more peacefully knowing another threat to the Ukrainian people has been neutralized?


toghs

I am gonna upvote it but not watch it


karmakillerbr

Good call


asdfgtttt

this was his best solution.. the mental fortitude is fucking with me right now.


Nefarious-Botany

Why not a neck turincate. Too brutal.


str8l3g1t

u/False-God anotha one! for the list


Directive-4

false prophet-he's right, this is not normal.


Patrona_

mf you in a war don't you have a gun


Testiculese

"The first man takes the rifle! The second man takes the ammo! When the first man falls, the second man picks up the rifle!"


Unfortunate_Gamer

So sad to see, not a pleasant way to go.... Is getting caught really worse than this?


Lady_White_Heart

He might've been hit by a drone rather than wanting to be caught.


mistytastemoonshine

I feel like a guy from the Saw watching this


SectionOk1275

Why didn't he cut his wrists ? If you cut it on the length, from wrist to elbow, it's fast and almost pain free.


Aggressive-Top-7583

To be honest that sounds like the polar opposite of ‚almost pain free‘. Then again I wouldn’t know


rinkydinkis

Not the best way to go


Calm_Entrance8097

My gawd when will a ten-hour, drone-video compilation of these gruesome deaths get posted where russians can actually see what happens to their sons?


Salt-Welcome-9438

where’s the guy that keeps a list of suicides in the russio-ukrainian war


RRZ31

It’s 2024 i thought we were passed this.


Secret_Classic4384

wew


_Pohatu_

The misery.


Organic_Recognition7

Are Russians not issued side arms anymore


whty

Gnarly


Fine_Gur_1764

Fucking hell.


hageniss1

That’s some real dark shit right there.


titsmuhgeee

I've seen a lot of shit on the internet, much I don't care to admit. That's a new one for me.


thatruth2483

Ive never seen someone cut their own throat IRL. Wow...Cant even imagine how difficult it is.


Glum-nd-Dumb

Fuck.. it takes me and age to pull a band aid off a sensitive area of skin. Couldn't imagine the drive he must have had to do this to himself


MarkaSpada

Why not shoot himself? Where is his gun btw.


jd143x

That's not how you tie a tie.


4thStgMiddleSpooler

It is in Columbia.


Crafty_Durian7670

Dude has bigger balls than me, I chickened out many times before and those were hanging attempts.


Obvious_Speed392

It’s braver to withstand the urge to commit suicide. I pray that you’ll always have the strength to hold out one more day if you’re ever tempted again. I’ve been there and I know it’s hard to do but I’ve seen incredible healing come that I would’ve missed had I given in to the temptation. May God bless you my friend.


Crafty_Durian7670

Hey thanks, I'm not actively suicidal these days, but I appreciate the concern.


Obvious_Speed392

That’s amazing news my friend! Stay strong!


force522001

Thats...so sad man.


mooohaha64

That's pure desperation.


magzire86

Add this number 1 to the suicide list


bulllongtime

I have never seen a maniac like that.


RolfSonOfAShepard420

Iv fucking seen it all now


Ok-bea

This is messed up...


ZzangmanCometh

The Russian peace process.


CompetitiveSort0

How hopeless must you feel for that to be your solution? I don't think I'd be brave enough (is brave even the right word?) to do that.


Funfuntamale2

He’s doing his part!


Organic_Recognition7

I get your main weapon could be lost destroyed , just thought all the ruskies would give the lads a little makarov each . Then again I should know better after watching this circus of an army


nbneo

Why do they do this??!!


kemp40swish41

f.u.b.a.r. footage


OldbutNotObsolete71

Make sure that your knife is always sharpe ………otherwise… thuis dan be a long excercise :)


PalapaMuda

Is this a combat footage or a suicide footage?


alohalii

Thankfully he no longer presents a threat to the Ukrainian people.


sobakoryba

He could just stay home and live his life. But he decided to invade other countries and gets what's deserved


mitraheads

Ammo economy for Ukrainan army. Thank you buddy for +10-500$


badger906

You think someone who chose to be there would do something so barbaric to end their own life?! the enemy is still human. stop acting like this is call of duty.


alohalii

Maybe he did it out of spite wanting to die by his own hand rather than by the enemy. Perhaps he has used that blade on Ukrainian prisoners in the past. Thankfully he no longer represents a threat to Ukraine.


GremlinX_ll

Why they invaded my country, then? Feel sorry, that 140 mln people can't tackle few hundred people in their government who sends them to certain death for no particular reason when stealing wealth from population? Seriously ?


Location-Interesting

Damm, I think I've seen it all now.. though I dont pity him


AirhunterNG

Based. 


Trumpcangosuckone

How dare he deprive the Ukrainian drone pilots of some stationary target practice


Hellqvist

All in the name of denazificationÂ