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We ALL should aspire to be more bad ass. Post photos of examples of men and women being incredibly hardcore so that we can all learn from their example.

Science, the military, emergency services, that dude who jumps off cliffs in a wing suit and makes awesome videos of it, all bad assery is welcome here.


Breaking Godwin's law in early, while these guys are nazis, you have to give props to a man lighting his smoke with the pilot light of a freaking flamethrower



We can all respect this man's stones. An EOD technician making the "Long Walk" to defuse a car bomb in Belfast I believe. Remember this is when EOD of this type was a new concept. Even as the established "science" it is today it's still insane, imagine doing that while writing the book as you went along.



Tesla being Tesla, nothing more should need to be said.

Great pictures.

If you think you know revenge. Think again.

How has there not been a movie of her anyway? Or have I just not heard of it?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30887233/ns/us_news-military/t/defense-chief-praises-soldier-pink-boxers/

The article explain the pic better then I

 Jihadin wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30887233/ns/us_news-military/t/defense-chief-praises-soldier-pink-boxers/

The article explain the pic better then I

To quote a line from an old movie, "He's the kind of man every boy wants to grow up to be and every old man wishes he'd been."

Please note "Mad" Jack Churchill in the bottom-right corner, storming a beach with a mother F'n claymore:


Kevin Stewart didn't need to "do" anything this day:


The picture says it all:


The Killdozer:


Those "Occupy" kids just didn't have this guy's style:


This is why Ron Perlman is a badass:

Az...I got a pic saying you stole some article.....

Maybe not the toughest example, but if this is your daily routine, it's a little bad ass.

I don't have anything to contribute to this thread immediately, but I just wanted to praise you for starting what could/should be a pretty epic thread.

Now that is some impressive balance work

Jihadin wrote:Az...I got a pic saying you stole some article.....

Huh?

We don't see the image. Instead we see a white box with the words: "Hey everyone, I stole this article from the Cimmerian."

Classic image. Blew my young mind when I first saw it.

By itself, it's hard to tell what the image is about, but this man ran the spartan race with only one arm. With but a single limb remaining, he accomplishes a physical feat most fully limbed people would find too difficult.

Ah, thanks. Guess they didn't want anyone linking to files hosted on whatever site popped up in Google. Should be fixed now.

The Killdozer guy is from my home town!



the gentleman in the center is Marine Corps Sergeant Major (then 1st Sergeant) Brad Kasal.

I could tell you the story but his Navy Cross citation lays it out much better


The President of the United States
Takes Pleasure in Presenting The Navy Cross To

Bradley A. Kasal
First Sergeant, United States Marine Corps

For Services as Set Forth in the Following Citation:

For extraordinary heroism while serving as First Sergeant, Weapons Company, 3d Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 13 November 2004. First Sergeant Kasal was assisting 1st Section, Combined Anti-Armor Platoon as they provided a traveling over watch for 3d Platoon when he heard a large volume of fire erupt to his immediate front, shortly followed by Marines rapidly exiting a structure. When First Sergeant Kasal learned that Marines were pinned down inside the house by an unknown number of enemy personnel, he joined a squad making entry to clear the structure and rescue the Marines inside. He made entry into the first room, immediately encountering and eliminating an enemy insurgent, as he spotted a wounded Marine in the next room. While moving towards the wounded Marine, First Sergeant Kasal and another Marine came under heavy rifle fire from an elevated enemy firing position and were both severely wounded in the legs, immobilizing them. When insurgents threw grenades in an attempt to eliminate the wounded Marines, he rolled on top of his fellow Marine and absorbed the shrapnel with his own body. When First Sergeant Kasal was offered medical attention and extraction, he refused until the other Marines were given medical attention. Although severely wounded himself, he shouted encouragement to his fellow Marines as they continued to clear the structure. By his bold leadership, wise judgment, and complete dedication to duty, First Sergeant Kasal reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

I'd like photos of Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant "Manila John" Basilone but the man's a freaking legend. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/basilone.html so take the whole story.



That guy looks kinda old to still be humping a pack don't he? That's Chesty Goddamn Puller and to myself and every other Marine out there that face is the face of the one true God. Similar to Basilone in scope but in short the man's the most decorated Marine in history with FIVE Navy Crosses and an Army Distinguished Service Cross (want to win some easy money off a boot Marine? bet him he doesn't know how many /service/ crosses Chesty had. He'll say five but the right answer is indeed six.) the man also saw more warzones as a combatant then most people have seen foreign countries period. Despite being one of the most respected officers in the history of the Marine Corps his focus was always on his troops and improving the lot of the Junior Enlisted, constantly leading by example, an example that had such an impact it permanently altered the culture of the Marine Corps. Oh and he said stuff like this and meant every word.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them." - LGen Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller November 1950, during Chosin Reservoir campaign

Lieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC. One of the few people to be mistakenly given a posthumous Victoria Cross.

For most conspicuous gallantry on active service in Somaliland. Captain Wilson was in command of machine-gun posts manned by Somali soldiers in the key position of Observation Hill, a defended post in the defensive organisation of the Tug Argan Gap in British Somaliland. The enemy attacked Observation Hill on August 11th, 1940. Captain Wilson and Somali gunners under his command beat off the attack and opened fire on the enemy troops attacking Mill Hill, another post within his range. He inflicted such heavy casualties that the enemy, determined to put his guns out of action, brought up a pack battery to within seven hundred yards, and scored two direct hits through the loopholes of his defences, which, bursting within the post, wounded Captain Wilson severely in the right shoulder and in the left eye, several of his team being also wounded. His guns were blown off their stands but he repaired and replaced them and, regardless of his wounds, carried on, whilst his Somali sergeant was killed beside him. On August 12th and 14th the enemy again concentrated field artillery fire on Captain Wilson's guns, but he continued, with his wounds untended, to man them. On August 15th two of his machine-gun posts were blown to pieces, yet Captain Wilson, now suffering from malaria in addition to wounds, still kept his own post in action. The enemy finally over-ran the post at 5 p.m. on the 15th August when Captain Wilson, fighting to the last, was killed.

He wasn't dead though... just almost dead...
Just a few more pieces of information concerning the battle.
The Camel Corp had no heavy guns. Just machine guns.
They were outnumbered to the tune of 25:1

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:


Breaking Godwin's law in early, while these guys are nazis, you have to give props to a man lighting his smoke with the pilot light of a freaking flamethrower

I'm pretty sure the guys in this picture aren't actually Nazis. Going by the uniforms, I think they're Finnish. So Godwin's law hasn't actually been broken yet!

Ok.. So this guy is a nazi. But look at that K-9 Dog, that dog is a badass. No helmet, no protective gear, nothing.



This was as close as I could find to the picture I was looking for. I was looking for a picture that I saw in an old LIFE magazine, that was of a german shepard k-9 unit on the back of a motorcycle, but the officer in question was English.

Ok, so technically the dog is an agent of the nazis too.

The guy riding the bike doesn't have a helmet... or protective clothing...

Doesn't Chesty Puller have some insane quote attributed to him about being pissed off at the introduction of flame throwers because he couldn't attach a bayonnet?

 Hordini wrote:
I'm pretty sure the guys in this picture aren't actually Nazis. Going by the uniforms, I think they're Finnish. So Godwin's law hasn't actually been broken yet!

I don't think those are Finnish, since according what i found with reverse google search that pic was apparently taken in Poland.

Although wouldn't be surprised if it was Finnish trooper considering crazy shenanigans they pulled during the wars.

 Shadowseer_Kim wrote:
Ok.. So this guy is a nazi. But look at that K-9 Dog, that dog is a badass. No helmet, no protective gear, nothing.



This was as close as I could find to the picture I was looking for. I was looking for a picture that I saw in an old LIFE magazine, that was of a german shepard k-9 unit on the back of a motorcycle, but the officer in question was English.

Ok, so technically the dog is an agent of the nazis too.

That is neither a Nazis nor someone fighting for them. Thats a post-war policeman.

 azazel the cat wrote:
Doesn't Chesty Puller have some insane quote attributed to him about being pissed off at the introduction of flame throwers because he couldn't attach a bayonnet?

Well he has a point...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

It's easy to be a badass when you are physically tough and impressive. When you are 5'5 and 110 lbs, it takes some serious f'ing grit. Dude here was the exemplar of kicking ass and taking names and yet being humble and good natured about it.

Awesome thread. Thanks for all the contributions so far.


Sergeant Yakov Pavlov


This guy led the first assault that recaptured a building in Stalingrad, but at the end of the assault he had just 4 guys including himself. It formed the point of a salient, and was a key point in defending the Russian held Mill behind it, and so the Nazis unleashed all kinds of hell in trying capture it. Using an anti-tank rifle Pavlov sniped more than dozen tanks from the rooftop, and kept on fighting for two months despite the building taking such a hammering it started to collapse in on itself.


Or then there's Zvika Greengold.


When the Israeli's were caught unawares at the beginning of the Yom Kippur war, so was Greengold, who was off duty in a training course. He hitch-hiked to the Syrian front, and began helping with the wounded until two Centurion tanks were repaired and he put together some crews from the men available. His two tanks made contact with the 51st tank brigade and he took out six tanks. Then he decided to start being a badass - taking on the 452nd tank brigade with just his tank, knocking out another 10 tanks, and causing the Syrians to think they were facing a much stronger force and retreating. Over the next 20 hours he continued to fight, tipping the scales in many conflicts, and swapping tanks a half dozen times as his vehicles suffered critical damage, causing him to suffer multiple wounds and burns.

In the end he crawled from his tank and muttered 'I can't anymore'. He personally claims to have taken out 20 tanks in the fighting, other estimates put it at greater than 40.

Simo Häyhä



To quote from wiki:

"During the Winter War (1939–1940), between Finland and the Soviet Union, he began his duty as a sniper and fought for the Finnish Army against the Red Army in the 6th Company of JR 34 on the Kollaa River. In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days – in other words, an average of 5 kills per day – at a time of year with very short hours of daylight."

 Bromsy wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

It's easy to be a badass when you are physically tough and impressive. When you are 5'5 and 110 lbs, it takes some serious f'ing grit. Dude here was the exemplar of kicking ass and taking names and yet being humble and good natured about it.

"They were killing my friends." I mean, just god damn.

It also takes something remarkable to write your autobiography about being such a badass, and then starring in the movie of your incredible badassery, and still come across as incredibly humble. I mean those things should not work. And yet Audie Murphy, fething champion.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
By itself, it's hard to tell what the image is about, but this man ran the spartan race with only one arm. With but a single limb remaining, he accomplishes a physical feat most fully limbed people would find too difficult.

Spoiler:

Those guys who take part in the Spartan race are frigging insane. Especially that guy with only 1 complete limb. My hat goes off to them all.



This kid, Tareg Gazel is/was a counter sniper working against Gadaffi during the Lybian civil war. He is also frigging insane/awesome.

I'll just leave this here

NINJAS! NINJAS EVERYWHERE!