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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 06:26 PM
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My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.

The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.

thought that this was pretty crazy...
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 06:48 PM
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thats ------- amazing, its prob.ly some crap gun they are using anyway coz i saw a video where they were trying to use a bunch of ---- that fits into your pocket to slow down the bullet from a AK47 or somthing, and needless to say none works lol

he pro.bly prays every ------- day now

BTW they might be using some CDM gun

Old Apr 5, 2007 | 06:54 PM
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 06:59 PM
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lucky that arab wasnt using a fmj, he woulda been dead and so would the guy standing behind him
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 08:52 PM
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wonder what he was listening to...
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BirdmanMD
wonder what he was listening to...
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by scottsi
lucky that arab wasnt using a fmj, he woulda been dead and so would the guy standing behind him
lol...

there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 09:07 PM
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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by random-strike
lol...

there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
so youre telling me a fully jacketed 7.62 round, at close range, was stopped by an ipod and a level 4 bulletproof vest?
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by scottsi
lucky that arab wasnt using a fmj, he woulda been dead and so would the guy standing behind him

The AK uses the 7.62x39 round. That ---- is WEAK *** round. It is waaaay slower and has only slightly more energy than the M16s 223 round.

A real round is the 6.5 Grendel. That ---- is as fast as the 223, but packs almost twice the energy. Low recoil and nice ballistics. No iPOD is gonna stop that round.

Plus, now that Wolf has started making the Grendel round, you can get it for cheap.


Originally Posted by random-strike
lol...
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
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