5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a p***y

No joke. I read that and thought "this is #5?" I was scared to read further...

 

The stuff on the wiki page is just insane.

He no-scoped em?

Kept snow in his mouth to prevent his frozen breath from showing?

Are you kidding me? People can BE this deadly??

 

Dude's wiki page says 500 confirmed kills. That's....just ridiculous.

Moral of the story? Don't f with Finland.

 

Why didn't they give Vassili Zaitsev a chance to take out Simo Hayha? He ate snow and wore white camo too.

 

Sounds like a movie

 

The guy that carried a claymore into battle was the funniest. I would love to actually see that.

 

Cracked is awesome. I check it every day for updates.

 

Or better yet, COD's next installment for their franchise.

 

Most of the books I've read by snipers seem to indicate that for a more accurate total number you can multiply the confirmed kills by 1.3x to 2x or perhaps even more depending on the reporting criterion of the army in question. For instance, in the German Army durring WWII, you needed to have an officer witness that he saw the sniper kill the enemy before it was confirmed. Obviously, snipers usually don't go walking around with an entourage at their hip "just in case".

Also, for every Audie Murphy or Sgt. York you hear about there are probably 2 or 3 others who are just as much bad @sses. In fact, the reason Murphy comes close to being a household name is because he parlayed his story into a film career, and York lives on for a similar reason thanks to Gary Cooper.

 

That guy at #5 was the best imo, he shouldda been #1

 

That story was awesome, but can't touch Audie Murphy. The Finnish guy was up hiding in a tree, Murphy was out there exposed

 

I'm sorry, but William "B.J." Blazkowicz gets the number 1 spot hands down. That mofo has killed tons of Nazi.

 

equally good.. was the list of the "7 Historical Figures who were Absurdly hard to kill"..

 

Matt Urban comes to mind.

 

Hans-Ulrich Rudel

and he did all of that in a Stuka.

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Other notables include:

The pilot who sank the Arizona. He killed 1177 people with one bomb.

or

Thomas Wilson Ferebee - the guy killed 140,000 of the enemy.

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Vietnam War badass Robert L. Howard

 

but he was on the wrong side. only winners get to write history.

 

I was flipping through MoH biographies and found this one.

Wow.

He probably belongs on both the 'bad ass' and the 'hard to kill' list.

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Benavidez suffered a broken jaw and 37 bullet and bayonet puncture wounds in the fight. He was so mauled that his commanding officer thought he wouldn't live long enough to receive a Medal of Honor. He nominated Benavidez for the Distinguished Service Cross instead, because the No. 2 award would take less time and paperwork to obtain.

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He's also a local guy.

The full citation for his MoH, if you have the time, follows:

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BENAVIDEZ, ROY P.
Rank and organization:Master Sergeant.
Organization: Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group, Republic of Vietnam
Place and date: West of Loc Ninh on May 2, 1968
Entered service at: Houston, Texas June 1955
Born:August 5, 1935, DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas.​

Citation:

Master Sergeant, then Staff Sergeant, United States Army. Who distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely glorious actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B-56, Fifth Special Forces Group (Airborne), First Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam.

On the morning of May 2, 1968, a 12-man Special Forces reconnaissance team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam, to gather intelligence about confirmed large-scale enemy activity. Shortly after arriving, the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested emergency extraction. Three helicopters attempted to extract them, but were unable to land due to intense small-arms and anti-aircraft fire.

Staff Sgt. Roy Benavidez was at the forward operating base in Loc Ninh, monitoring the operation by radio when the helicopters returned to off-load wounded crewmembers and to assess aircraft damage. Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small-arms fire to the crippled team.

Prior to reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face and head. Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members. He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position. Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members. As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents of the dead team leader. When he reached the leader's body, Benavidez was severely wounded by small-arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded and his helicopter crashed.

Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple wounds, Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter, distributing water and ammunition to the weary men, and re-instilling in them a will to live and fight.

Facing a rapid buildup of enemy opposition against his beleaguered team, Benavidez mustered his remaining strength, calling in tactical air strikes and directing fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt. He was wounded again in his thigh by small-arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land. On his second trip with the wounded, he was attacked by an enemy soldier, who clubbed him in the head and arms. After killing the soldier, Benavidez continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the helicopter from an angle that prevented the helicopter door gunner from firing on them. With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded. Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft.

Sergeant Benavidez' gallant choice to voluntarily join his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men. His fearless personal leadership, tenacious devotion to duty, and extremely valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.
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