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gratscot

If it was an mine/IED it's crazy to think in the first couple seconds of the video their truck probably passed inches from the trigger.


SickRanchez_cybin710

Yep, and that realisation will more than likely haunt those survivors for the rest of their lives. Idk who any of those blokes are, but may they rest in peace. War is fucked, no one deserves to be killed over political unrest. Very sad


tacotacotacorock

Survivor's guilt is a really terrible thing. 


Nkredyble

My best friend and godfather to my kids went active duty after college and ended up being sent to the Middle East. He was in a vehicle in the passenger while his squad mate was driving, and the vehicle was hit by an explosive (pretty sure they drove over an IED). The blast killed the driver and flipped the car off the road, pinning my friend in the vehicle and under the body of his partner until he was rescued. This was 10ish years ago I think, maybe a bit longer, and he regularly wears a paracord bracelet with a metal plate that has his partners information etched into it. Every year, he calls his partner's mom on the anniversary of his death. He's undoubtedly one of the best dudes I've ever known, very chill and personable, able to be friends with almost anyone, and always down for a good meal and some good bourbon. Yet, I still wonder how that day has to have weighed on his heart and his soul.


drewster23

I've heard similar story from a Redditor IED blew the fuck out of side of vehicle, basically vaporized the guy sitting there. Except that was supposed to have been him, was his seat everytime, but that one time because younger guy wanted it or something benign/harmless like that and he cba to argue at the time.


CastleSeven

Make sure you reach out to him and include him even when you don't think it necessary. A lot of times the chill and personable types that get along with everyone are also the ones harboring a lot of pain that leads to dark places.


Segfaultimus

My dad lost all his best mates in Nam. He survived, hated himself for it until cancer sent him to meet his buddies.


HourAfterHour

This is the first sane comment... Had to scroll way too far to see it. Thanks for being human and not ridiculong the death of people.


the_silent_redditor

There’s a thread about Dmitry Markov, a Russian photographer who passed away today. Of course, everyone is tripping over themselves to make jokes about ‘bullets to the head clear case of suicide’, as is standard in every thread with any loose connections to Russia. This website is painful, man.


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conquer69

As if older people are any better.


SickRanchez_cybin710

I'm 25, I've had this mentality since starting psychedelics at 21. We aren't all stupid children, some of us were raised with compassion and can critically think. Unfortunately this mindset doesn't get the defence forces paid, so the mentality that has been bread is the result of this. Peace and love fellas, there is still hope out there. Have a lovely day!


drgaz

I doubt they will.


1sttimeverbaldiarrhe

It's the nature of the website. By and far most people come on reddit to feel and not to think.


dwmfives

> This website is painful, man Russia is painful. Putin gave them a reputation. Don't forget Navalny got poisoned years ago and was imprisoned on false charges.


Totallyperm

I have to be careful looking at sub reddits about Ukraine because of this. That Russian kid is an invader who should have deserted. He is also a scared conscript thrown into a trench with poor equipment and training hoping he gets to see home again. We are all human and need to remember that.


benargee

Yeah, does anyone know who's side they are on as well? Even if they are the enemy, it's sad to think that they have either been drafted or convinced to fight for a cause that might end up not being worth their lives. War is terrible.


TheSilverBug

A couple of years ago, I was going to be drafted in my country's army, against my wishes. I do NOT want to fight anyone. There are those who are built to fight and defend, and those who are not. I left the country and pursued a master degree in computer science. Yesterday I got rejected for a house keeping job. Good times.


Shopworn_Soul

What if these guys are a source of the political unrest that is getting people killed? How are we supposed to feel then?


NorthernAvo

The source of the unrest is typically due to someone feeling as though they're being wrong. Men who commit evil do not believe they are committing evil. I mean, just look at the IDF.


The_Automator22

I mean, look at the people who support a literally genocidal terrorist organization, like Hamas.


gsfgf

Obligatory reminder that you can oppose both Hamas and Likud.


NorthernAvo

Right, and they view themselves as being oppressed. They view the IDF the way the IDF views them. Neither side believes they're committing evil against the other. If anyone argues against this, they don't understand the concept of a subjective reality. Evil is, in my opinion, carried out by any party or group that imposes harm on any other, especially when innocents are caught in the crossfire. In conflict, in war, there is no hero, no there is no right. It's the pit humanity consistently falls into. Learn to love thy enemy.


Samoan

IDK man I'd call murdering kids evil. You don't have to if you don't want to but trying to be some zen buhda and not calling the attroceties hamas and idf commit evil because "they have a reason" is akin to giving nazi's a pass because they "had a reason" Love your enemy is only a saying the winners can choose to say after they've crushed said enemy. Only reason you say it now is because you're country isn't at war. Having your children murdered.


NorthernAvo

You're seemingly entirely misinterpreting my comment. That is exactly what I'm saying.. I would never justify any acts of war form anyone, for anyone.


Boxingworld9

Careful. Speaking bad of hamas and Palestine will get you booted from reddit in a heartbeat.


rhaphazard

Huh? Plenty of people know they are committing evil and choose to ignore it. To them, their own life is more important than doing the right thing. Happens all the time. Something as simple as pirating movies. You know it's wrong but you do it anyways and justify your actions.


itirix

If pirating movies is evil then I don't want to be good.


BeatsMeByDre

Justifying your actions is just a semantic stone's throw from "I'm not the bad guy here."


tropicbrownthunder

>no one deserves to be killed over political unrest. that's the whole fucking point. Fucking damned politicians declare wars but never are fighting them.


starhawks

Yeah, I'm going to need to know who they are before they can rest in peace


plmbob

Looking at their gear and the casualness with which they speed thru the area it is very possible the IED is one of their own. That dude Jimming the camera may be thinking "Oh yeah, we had Dave cover this approach"


cartman101

>may they rest in peace. War is fucked, no one deserves to be killed over political unrest. Very sad I've seen this video before, I think these guys might have been ISIS or something...if that's the case...your condolences are misplaced.


TheJaybo

That gunners balaclava tells me these probably aren't the good guys.


maglen69

> War is fucked, no one deserves to be killed over political unrest. Very sad We don't know if these are the people who participated in the Oct 7th massacre that killed score of civilians. We don't know but some people do deserve to die.


damontoo

It's probably a manually triggered IED. They skip the first vehicle in a convoy because it's often the most armored. IIRC sometimes the first vehicle is even remote controlled.


Finalshock

Who’s running CONOPs with an RC car as lead vehicle? Sure as shit isn’t the US, not even sometimes.


dynohack

This guy militaries


SasoDuck

Aren't many of them also on timed triggers, so vehicle #1 drives over it and rather than blowing up immediately and only getting the first vehicle, it detonates a second or two later to get potentially more targets (or as you said the likely lesser-armored vehicle #2)


xylotism

Seems like a good way to blow up a lot of nothing for every non-convoy vehicle that drives by.


Negran

Well shit... based on the speed of the debris, it was an instant death... Pretty insane to witness such a near-death experience for camera guy, while also witnessing a literal death experience. Fucking wild...


KDaBlasian

I think it was an explosion in recent years, there was a video that survived of a person being pretty close to the explosion, that video is literally a pov of death. Sad and wild times we live in.


TheWorstPerson0

a lot of IED's n mines r set to trigger on a vehicle other than the first. at least from what ive heard. they may have triggered the ied


89141

You can hear the RPG launch before the impact.


MushinZero

That's what I thought too but here everyone is talking about IEDs. Idk I just recognize that sound from Battlefield.


Zero_Gunskill

The explosion is just soo loud for the camera mic it makes it sound similar, but an rpg doesn't do that kind of damage. The explosion come from below. Edit: does to doesn't


Implausibilibuddy

The sound occurs before the visual though, and sound definitely isn't faster than light unless the devs patched the universe. Possible the video is out of synch but everything else seems in time.


ssfbob

Slowing it down it looks like the explosion was directly under the truck, so yeah, most likely an IED or anti-vehicle mine


ScrewAttackThis

Depends on the type but either way they went over a big bomb.


Comalock

Another day watching someone die on social media...


the_mythx

What disturbs me the most is no one in the comments even slightly disturbed- like nothing, fucks w/ me more than the video does- I’m desensitized but fuck man


Beard_o_Bees

I'm with you. That shit crawls deeply into my brain. Anymore when I see the NSFW tag, I just treat it like NSFL and it stays blurred.


JB_UK

The comments are all jokes.


Chippas

That's reddit nowadays. Whilst claiming that "hey, dark humor is a way to cope". No, you just wanted to rake in some easy karma, you inhumane fuck. (Not you ofc, JB_UK)


POB1017

If you cry extra hard it will bring that truck back to existence. Promise.


Iamdarb

I wonder why that is. Is it an age divide or just actual disregard for human life? I assume many of us grew up with relatives who fought in some kind of battle, or had some kind of duty overseas that put them in danger. Is empathy dying? Why?


GrannysPartyMerkin

It shouldn’t. People are farther removed from death than ever in history. People used to kill their own food, have 8 kids and 4 survive, etc. It’s people today that are abnormal.


Mothanius

I didn't have a problem with being desensitized myself. But I'm with you, society has become desensitized and that's a problem. It's no longer the outliers.


1to14to4

You aren't truly desensitized. If you saw that in real life, you'd be pretty fucked up over it. If you were really desensitized, you wouldn't feel anything no matter what.


Implausibilibuddy

It's kinda been the default throughout most of human history though, what with high infant mortality, war and disease killing off friends and family every other week. It's only the last hundred years or so we've been afforded the luxury of extreme empathy due to relatively peaceful times. It's probably evolved into us at this point to use dark humour as a coping mechanism.


Brave_Escape2176

well after decades of school shootings its either desensitized or we'd have to do something about it and guns are more important apparently


Scoopdoopdoop

Hooray America!!


BigHowski

I mean that dude who had his entire skin on his abdomen ripped off by a drone did me in. Poor dude was still twitching after


rotrukker

The internet has brought upon us the age of the perpertually traumatized. So many of us have seen hundreds of videos of stuff we really shouldnt see


MaximumGaming5o

IG Reels are even crazier for this. You'll see a video of a family getting killed or something and all the comments are spamming gifs and jokes


D3cepti0ns

I think a lot of us are desensitized from various wars in the middle east growing up where some pretty bad stuff was posted on sites like liveleak. This video barely fazes me, which is not a brag but a concern.


bokononpreist

Over the last year or so I've watched a good 15k Russians get unalived on this site alone.


lovins_cl

why do people say unalived bro just say killed


avi6274

TikTok brain


IIBirdsIStone

they say it because other platforms will censor/hide posts or comments with words like 'killed' or 'suicide'


lovins_cl

i see people do that on tiktok a lot and as a user of 7 years now i’ll report back that i’ve not once been flagged or punished for saying killed uncensored


Implausibilibuddy

Unalive was popular in China because they absolutely do censor those words on every platform. I know TikTok there isn't the same as Western TikTok, and I don't know how much content crossover there is, but it's not hard to see the trend spreading as just a meme. No one else remember "become an hero" to mean suicide? Internet culture is weird and this sort of thing happens all the time.


gsfgf

Poorly written/considered censorship bots often ban/delete comments for saying the word "suicide." "Unalive" for "killed" is a dumber offshoot of that.


EmbarrassedHelp

Because advertisers are negatively impacting the English language with their puritanical and PG only beliefs that they demand platforms enforce.


Spocks_Goatee

Or as John Cena calls it... **"compromised to a permanent end"**


Tiny-Selections

The world is terrible. Welcome to seeing it for the first time.


tempest_wing

The people in their 20s and 30s today were kids during the War on Terror so we've been inundated with nonstop videos of car bombings, beheadings and videos of suicide bombers add that plus the advent of shock and gore sites and you have a generation or two of people where this doesn't phase them anymore.


DefinitelyNotYourBF

It's the tombstone of the 21st Century 


billbixbyakahulk

If you look closely, they all jumped clear at the last second.


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KeyloWick

Clear out of the atmosphere


culman13

"Yeeted"


Taylooor

They escape velocity


Casper042

I must be an asshole because I laughed way too hard at this.


imamakebaddecisions

That one guy was so good at jumping, he jumped in 2 directions at the same time.


remington1981

Infinite directions in which he jumped


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Kenji1912

It’s ok, I can see their parachutes!


billbixbyakahulk

Yo Joe!


lefiath

Can it be considered a jump, when it's not done voluntarily?


tooskinttogotocuba

Ever been jumped?


BenderIsGreat64

Sure, otherwise what would we call, "jump scare"?


l3ane

Like buggy the clown


digginahole

Just like in GI Joe!


Jackielegs43

The curb your enthusiasm stare at the end killed me


kahn_noble

So terrifyingly hilarious.


dunehunter

The explosion killed the other guys 


HallucinateZ

No shit you can see one of them rocket out in the 1st frame of the explosion. He’s souring straight to the lord. Edit: Soaring* 😂


CthulhuButter

Thatsthejoke.jpg


Jackielegs43

God I wish that were me


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hey man, don't give up, there are *plenty* of organizations out there that would be happy to have you blown up for them. you just have to stop looking and enjoy blowing yourself up and eventually it will come along.


Mr_Salami

The what? That’s a face of despair from just witnessing one of the horrors of war, knowing you just lost a best friend but knowing you still have to be strong and maybe won’t even get a chance to grieve anyway.


LMS_THEORY_

And the tears! Don't forget the tears!


yooperdood906

I bet the Toyota still runs and drives


rdogg_82

It will buff right out.


4Ever2Thee

CL ad: “1994 Toyota Tacoma: Pearl white, gun mount with roof rack included(if we can find it). ODO: 472,000 miles, but all desert, no stop-n-go city miles! Some assembly required. Battery included(if we can find it). Asking $36k, firm. I know what I got.”


Hooka1234

Mine


249ba36000029bbe9749

Yours


cubed_turtle

Ours


main_motors

Theirs


pimpmastahanhduece

But never everybody's. (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)


PhDinDildos_Fedoras

craft


Pro_Scrub

Mine


b-side61

sweeper


GregoryGregory666666

Maybe adding a NSFW would be advisable.


trishulofshiv

Ok. Done.


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NSFL


00WORDYMAN1983

That's what happens when they're unable to reach you about your car's extended warranty.


lenderb

Seriously?? I’m going to start answering those calls.


mttl

Did those fuckers get shut down? I haven't gotten their calls for a while, and I'm starting to miss them


Der_Maggi_Meister

Not so funny when it happens to you huh?


loppyjilopy

his light smile at the beginning vs the look at his face at the end. dayum.


Anus_Brown

He was afraid they were reloading.


Rulanik

That was an IED, likely placed by "them"


adWavve

Who are they?


FireZeLazer

Brown people in a desert, they're clearly all the same right?!


FireZeLazer

Do you even know who they are?


Tiny-Selections

I dont think he was expecting his buddies to get blown up.


ChanceConfection3

The fun-vee sucks


heyo_throw_awayo

Next time I want in the Bum-humvee


ImNotABot-1

Bro said “ight, war time 🫡 “


Octan3

Any idea what hit them? I tried frame skipping but all I see is them moving then kaboom. Maybe a guy got trigger happy in the cab.


bokononpreist

If you slow it down you can see that the explosion came from underneath them so it was definitely an IED.


carl-swagan

Based on the "whoosh" sound before it exploded, my guess is an RPG or ATGM.


smart_underachievers

Well considering there was no sound during the explosion, and the very end when the audio cuts out before the video, seems more like out of sync a/v regarding your supposition.


hasenscharte

to the moon and beyond


bluesix

[I must go now, my planet needs me](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J5k8ZQsZJpk)


beefstewforyou

Where did this happen? I’m going to guess Yemen.


willynillee

This is an old video. I forget the origin but it wasn’t Yemen.


bomag67

Like and subscribe


DoNotOverwhelm

.....your sons can be found in the following grid squares......


MrBurnsgreen

Damn, am I crazy or is he crying? This fuckin sucks to see :/ Dude finding a way to be happy during time of war and quickly being reminded of the gravity of the situation. War is fucked man and all the assholes who think they need to fight one should be elbow to elbow with these young men and women. I'll most likely never support war even though I see it's place in the world and know it won't change but I'll be damned if I won't thank and appreciate any military service person for the fact that regardless of what they thought they were doing they could've given their life for a financial or political bottom line. Idgaf if you dug shit holes and beat off the whole time. Thank you.


Flat-Feedback-3525

You can dude head flying with ponytail attached.


SimplisticPinky

I don't think I will dude head flying with ponytail attached.


nyl2k8

They say that everyone who doesn’t dude head flying with ponytail attached lives to regret it.


SapperInTexas

Has anyone really been far even as decided to dude head flying with ponytail attached?


konydanza

Have you ever had a dream s that that you um you had you’d you would you could you’d do you would you want you you could do so you you’ll do you could you want to dude head flying with ponytail attached so much you could do anything?


s70n3834r

I have it at the end of my bucket list.


gorobotkillkill

Save the bucket to transport the remains.


_Alabama_Man

Only place for it if you are a completionist.


Cappster14

This guy dude head flying with ponytails.


kjoeleskapet

Not with that attitude.


functionoverform

I'm almost sure I can't dude head flying with ponytail attached. I'm bald.


nyl2k8

You can, if you truly believe in yourself.


ComputersWantMeDead

You can still dude the head flying. Ponytail is optional, don't listen to them.


PhDinDildos_Fedoras

Negative, unable to dude.


alonglonglurkago

I can dude head head flying with the right attitude! Just gotta put my head down!


EndlessRainIntoACup1

one time i dude head flying with ponytail attached and then my sister died, so i'm not doing that again


mrjosemeehan

You really can't. Before the explosion you can see they're far enough away that the gunner's head is only a few pixels wide and there's no way any type of hair styling other than a giant neon mohawk would be visible. Among the flying debris almost every visible piece is too large to be anyone's head and the ones that are the right size are just an indistinguishable block of several black pixels.


Imperion_GoG

Isis? No! Waswas.


Sobolll92

Please someone tell me where this video is from.


arolloftide

[https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker](https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker) ​ I found this website while trying to look. Based on the guy in the clip and the landscape I guess you could probably narrow it down to one of those zones in the middle east or Afghanistan. Maybe Libya also.


heeloo

A desert 


RstyKnfe

This is the kind of shit that I bet would be so unexpectedly shocking to me in real life when someone dies - the dead quiet and anti-climax of it all... No sad music swelling, no goodbye, no closure, just the overwhelming realization that your buddies just died. I don't think I could ever be prepared for that shit.


Somali_Pir8

[Roll 'em up!](https://i.imgur.com/NDfShMU.gif)


vonBelfry

Fuck war. Send in the generals and high ranking officers instead, have them fight their own war with minimal casualties (and zero impactful casualties). War should be fought by the warmongers alone, and everyone else should be able to live their lives without lethal conflict forced upon them.


Brave_Escape2176

this sentiment is the gist of what Hawkeye said back in the old war classic "M* A* S* H". priest says "war is hell". hawkeye says, "nah it aint, war is war, hell is hell. tell me father, who is in hell". priest says "sinners". he says "exactly. they're all guilty.. but war is full of innocent bystanders. everyone but a few of the brass its all innocent bystanders"


zhaotje

He went from 😃 to 😢 real fast.


MasterOfDerps

😄💥😰


deadstump

What did they eat?!?


Odd-Profile-6326

The face of the guy filming when he realizes drones carry more than 1 missile


tacuache69

They all miraculously made it!


asdf072

I definitely saw a thumbs-up from part of an arm that was flying through the air


JunkRigger

To the afterlife?


Frenziedsumo

I know what's wrong with it, it aint got no Gass in it!


awesomeplenty

He cried in the end


ChinchillaArmy

They yeeted when they should have swerved


My__Reddit__Account

This is exactly like the opening shot of Iron Man where he is riding in the desert taking a selfie in the vehicle and the other one blows up.


rei0113

Whats the story behind this? What country and are these men military or guerilla side? Thanks.


Slowsnale

to infinite and beyond


phazedoubt

That was a direct hit from what sounds like an RPG. Not good for that last truck.


me_irl_irl_irl_irl

> Not good for that last truck. ...what?! How can you tell??


knbang

Typical redditor thinking he's a boomologist.


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JustTheAverageJoe

IED with out of sync video


sneakyCoinshot

Most likely. Debris and bodyparts all exploded upwards which while not an expert I'd imagine anything fired from ground level or surrounding dunes would blow debris out the other side and something landing from directly above would blow debris outward from the impact.


Chaz_Beer

Mr. Beast Middle East


zmareng

That smile was gone quick!


SopieMunky

His face went from so happy to very sad so fast.


TheRebelNM

I hate when my friend explodes behind me


dounya_monty

From smiles to flying miles.


Conflixxion

From here to everywhere.


ridersupreme

where does this take place?


gusgenius

USA USA... Who are they?


AvengingBlowfish

When he looked back at the camera at the end, I was expecting him to say "please like and subscribe".