Jack Lucas: Indestructible Marine Earns Medal Of Honor at 17 | The Fat Electrician | VETERAN REACTS

[@JohnFromSC]

My dad who was Army infantry in Vietnam always told me never be first, never be last and never volunteer.

[@troyallen4868]

What a guy!!!! Again, truly humble, but what a HERO!

[@BCWolfe2]

The Navy just a year ago commissioned the USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the first of the Flight III version of the Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyers. She is the first fitted with the brand new AN/SPY-6 phased array radar instead of the older, but still very capable, AN/SPY-1D on the other Burke's. Also, fun fact, when USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) had her keel laying ceremony back in 1997, Jack Lucas had his Metal of Honor citation sealed into it.

[@kevinotoole2285]

I died laughing when you two go “maybe we just send him to war”😂

[@damonbryan7232]

An Hollywood says that don't have any ideas for great movies. Me;"Where the f are you looking"

[@InstrucTube]

Just because I was super curious, I looked into his parachute failure a bit, then wanted to know what the highest fall was that a human survived, and I found this: Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 - 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet. Which is friggin nuts. He was impressive, don't get me wrong, but he jumped from 1200 feet up...

[@Cramernutz22]

If she didn't believe that God exists before this, you knew darn well she did afterward. That's crazy!

[@DavidRichardson153]

There was quite a bit that went into her survival, though bear in mind that this does not detract from what happened to her at all. First, there was her being pinned inside a section of the fuselage, so she did not fall openly. Yes, she still fell and likely reached whatever the terminal velocity of that section was (33,000 feet is more than enough space to reach it). However, being inside it meant that she had stuff in the way that could act as a "decelerator" (I don't think it's an actual term, but you get the idea), buying her precious extra milliseconds that went into cutting down the force and momentum that were transferred to her and thus increasing her odds. Then, there was where the fuselage section landed. It landed at an angle, likely one that effectively shielded her in the fuselage and prevented her from being injured by the trees and snow in the area that it fell into. The impact(s) with the trees likely shaved off some of the force and momentum, and then the loosely packed snow on the ground likely did the same. Finally, there was preexisting her low blood pressure condition. Her physicians concluded that it likely caused her to pass out from the depressurization, thus making her go limp and be even more likely to survive (there is a correlation between a body going limp and surviving a fall). Again, none of this detracts from what she went through. It is arguably miraculous that all of these different and highly specific circumstances lined up in the way that they did to ensure her survival, and the same can be said in Jack Lucas' case. And speaking of Lucas, his case ended up playing a major part in what body position you should be in after suffering total parachute failure. Before, the "landing" position was more-or-less the final position for the Leap of Faith game mechanic of the Assassin's Creed games. I do not know when the change was made or exactly how much of a difference it made, but now, it is more-or-less what Lucas did, and the difference is noticeable. And FYI, there is an old Game Theory video that covers the Leap of Faith mechanic, so look that up for an explanation for why it was used.

[@mikehall1523]

Wuzzup fellas.....great vid!

[@Bryan-b8b]

Would have loved to see the faces of the other guys after he walked off his parachutes didn't open.

[@billyyllib6475]

A true hero

[@alibennett78]

This is a class story

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

All the greats lied to get into the military? From what I understand, Audey Murphy was actually about a year younger than his enlistment papers showed him to be and that was with a court signed permission to enlist.

[@jay-rk1ve]

My grandad lied at 15 and went to Africa

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

@@jay-rk1ve mine didn't lie, joined the Kansas state militia (before it was called the National Guard) at the age of 11 and was on standby for the Spanish-American War.

[@drewkress8565]

It was less then 2 too 3 days...

[@drewkress8565]

It was worse back then, so my brother told me...