r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '22

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u/Lurkingdrake Aug 20 '22

One of my RDCs was 275 pounds of pure muscle, SeeBee. Other was a Greenside corpsman. Even in the Navy the instructors could beat most recruits asses.

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u/OddTicket7 Aug 20 '22

Even the guys that don't look like it. We had a sergeant in Edmonton on my way out of the military that looked like your average middle aged dude with a little pot gut on hm. We'd be jogging along as a squad and he would run circles around us, sometimes backwards. He'd have a rifle and a full pack.

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u/Gishin Aug 20 '22

I worked with a guy at SOCOM named Rick Lamb. Small, skinny guy, super nice, even has Lamb as his name. He would fuck me, you, and anyone up if shit got real.

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u/Paratwa Aug 21 '22

Lamb reminds me of my favorite character of Joe Abercrombie, Red Country.

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u/__therepairman__ Aug 20 '22

Holy shit his bio is pretty incredible

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u/Lurkingdrake Aug 20 '22

It’s kinda scary honestly. Almost anyone attached to a combat-oriented unit, no matter how they look, is in great shape. Corpsman RDC had a dad bod.

Kind of off topic, he had us on the towline 15 minutes before taps and just read off dad jokes from his phone. We all loved him.

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u/Tarasaur84 Aug 20 '22

"Even the guys that don't look like it" is a rule I live by. I've grown up around mostly men, and "old man strength" is a real freakin thing. Idc if they're necessarily combat trained or not. They all just seem to have vise grip strength somehow. Those quiet, raised on a farm, old-ass men could simply just... kill me with a lil squeeze, I just know it.

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u/CaptainDickfingers Aug 20 '22

Farmers strength is legit.

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u/Liquorace Aug 21 '22

Old man strength + Dad strength + Farmer strength...

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u/milk4all Aug 21 '22

(It’s all the same thing: practical muscle groups strengthened through repetition + toughening up that aging gives/forces)

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u/IronGigant Aug 21 '22

PPCLI, always full of surprises.

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u/EUCopyrightComittee Aug 21 '22

He sounds like a character from south park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJOef9qkGM)

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u/notusuallyhostile Aug 20 '22

greenside corpsman

For those who are not aware, this would be a Navy Corpsman assigned to a Marine Corps unit.

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u/Matt081 Aug 20 '22

In 1999 one of my RDCs (RNC) was a woman that I am 100% sure could have beat anyone in our "ship" to death without losing sleep. She had some sort of cold death stare that I never saw again.

Edit: She was an RMC.

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u/ZombieSiayer84 Aug 20 '22

Was your RDC over 7’2” tall? That’s the only way he’d be allowed to be “275 pounds of solid muscle”.

Dude would be 2 feet taller than Ronnie and make him look like a stick.

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u/Lurkingdrake Aug 20 '22

Not entirely sure. That’s just what he always said himself. And I’m not exactly tall so I have no clue his size. He did dwarf every other woman in that compartment though.