[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Too close...(pic)

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:42:29 PM EDT

From Time.com

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Close Call
A Marine ducks after being nearly hit by Taliban fire in Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Miraculously, he was not injured.

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:43:18 PM EDT

[#1]

note the date

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:44:50 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
From Time.com

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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Close Call
A Marine ducks after being nearly hit by Taliban fire in Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Miraculously, he was not injured.

Yeah was a story on Fox almost a month ago.

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:44:55 PM EDT

[#3]

oh shit i think i would have pissed myself

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:45:44 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Yeah was a story on Fox almost a month ago.

Just saw it today. I've been under a rock.

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:46:18 PM EDT

[#5]

I have a lot of respect for those guys

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:46:43 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
oh shit i think i would have pissed myself

It reminds me of that video where that IED was detonated a few blocks down on some street and this marine (I think?) almost gets his head taken off by some frag while he is standing on a balcony.

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:47:54 PM EDT

[#7]

Speaks volumes.
Godspeed men!

Posted: 6/11/2008 7:49:24 PM EDT

[#8]

It seems that it was pretty quiet in Afghanistan until the jihadists became emboldened by the rhetoric of the left here at home and the possibility of Obama getting elected.

Posted: 6/11/2008 8:00:39 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Yeah was a story on Fox almost a month ago.

Anyone got a link?

I'm not doubting, I just wanna read the article.

Posted: 6/11/2008 8:11:01 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Yeah was a story on Fox almost a month ago.

Anyone got a link?

I'm not doubting, I just wanna read the article.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356574,00.html

Posted: 6/11/2008 8:18:56 PM EDT

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