Honorary /k/ommandos
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I have been thinking, is there any dead historical figures who would have been loved by /k/. Do we have a few historical figures who would be honorary /k/ommandos. I nominate Mad Jack Churchill because he was a total badass.
I wish more people knew about this guy, he was such a genuine person while being more operator than vining
The more I learn about Jack the less I like him
He seemed like a show-off that got his men killed
Lewis B Puller, USMC
The viking of stamford bridge.
>>28292635
Shriver? Seems neat. First name?
>>28292756
Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver
http://www.taskforceomegainc.org/s139.html
Who's that black guy who killed/shot it out with a bunch of SWAT guys and escaped, and went and killed the corrupt cops who set him up or something like that? Was popular on k a while back
>>28292800
Can't corner the Dorner
>>28292604
Adrian Carton de Wiart
His biography "The Happy Odyssey" was a fun read.
>>28292838
NO, this was in like the 80s. Thanks for playing guess that nig though. He was set up and SWAT raided him and he got away and other then that im not sure. Im hoping somebody can guess from this vague ass shit.
This fucker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham
>>28292854
>tells his new subordinate that he has to get used to BF 109's strafing their car when they are out in the countryside
It was a good read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
>Joined three different militaries to fight against commies from World War II to Vietnam
I don't think he liked communism
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, fought in both world wars, served in all 3 branches of the German armed forces, finished fallschirmjaeger school at 51, fought on crete, and earned the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Swords, Oak Leaves, and Diamonds (1 of the 27th did.) After the war he snuck out of a pow camp to mail a letter, grab a bite to eat, and enjoy a cigar in a hotel lobby before returning to his camp.
>>28292876
Not finding anything, but it sounds interesting. Will lurk in case anyone figures it out.
>>28293003
>SS officer buried at Arlington
I will never stop laughing about that.
>>28293022
>>28293003
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
This fins are tough soldiers
>>28293003
man pioneered early special forces such as the green berets
Vining probably thought of him as a role model
>>28293010
>he is
>the most interesting Nazi in the world
Every one of the soldiers in the Light Brigade.
Even knowing the orders were incorrect. Even knowing they would be 600 strong on horseback armed with carvery sabers and pistols. Even knowing they would be using said weapons to charge down the whole of the Russian artillery units, aimed directly at them.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
>>28293449
That poem is beautiful. My number two after O Captain, My Captain.
>>28292604
ITT: dumb government animals
>>28293470
Careful. If your tinfoil slips too much, your troll powerlevel will be known to the normies. You must reeeee softly now.
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>>28293470
valor is courage in the face of danger and adversity, politics need not be interjected in the admiration of those responsible for truly incredible deeds.
>>28293470
You got very eloquently btfo by this fine gentleman here >>28293538
>>28292652
"Where does the bayonet go?"
>>28293003
His wikipedia page was certainly worth reading.
Andrew Jackson
http://www.cracked.com/video_18463_andrew-jackson-most-terrifying-man-ever-elected-president.html
>>28293705
Donald Trump is the next one.
>>28292604
meme soldier, all bravado, found after a battle playing bagpipes instead of fighting
No Sir Christopher Lee.
Guys what the fuck.
He was Dracula, Fransisco Sacramanga, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, Death, Lucifer, Count Dooku, Saruman the White, Lord Summerisle.
Before all that, he was a Commando during WWII, and after WWII he hunted Nazis, and he was part of the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
>>28292604
I like how people think that picture is something super cool and badass.
That was a training exercise.
>>28293538
You can pretty it up as much as you want, they are still state goons.
>>28292604
Lost my pics folder, someone post the peg legged scandinavian guy who survived the arctic by making a knife out of his own shit.
>>28293929
Do you have any source for that?
I always thought it's a cool, badass story.. but still just stupid to do that. And also actually pretty irresponsible.
>>28294232
Sounds gross desu.
>Sir, we're running out of ammunition
>Thank heavens, we'll finally be at them with the bayonets!
Laconic, nearly illiterate, cellist and composer, and the best shot, swordsman, lancer, and leader of irregular cavalry of the 19th century
Jack Churchill
>Inherited some money
>Bought a warship
>Took over Borneo
>this guy
I nominate this every-man.
>>28295774
Not really. The guy puts this fedora Churchill to shame.
>>28295956
i find it interesting that some people seem to be at home in war. it truly is the natural way of man
>>28292604
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Urban
The man who proves that officers were leaders for a reason...and also more badass than Audie Murphy.
>TFW no one ever talks about Teddy Roosevelt Jr.
Was one of the first ashore at Utah, despite being 56 with a heart condition and hobbling around on a cane. Casually strolled through MG and arty fire while directing troops to a new causeway that he personally scouted.
>>28292604
>>28293003
Holy shit.
>>28293003
/pol/ personnified?
Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
>He reappeared on the field at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (1756), and during the first campaign conducted the war on the Silesian side of Bohemia; and in 1757, following the same route as in 1744, again joined Frederick at Prague. On 6 May followed the Battle of Prague, leading on a regiment of the left wing to the attack with its colour in his hand, he shouted "Let all brave Prussians follow me!" after which he was struck and killed by a cannonball. He was 72 years old.
>>28296284
ayyy lmao!
>>28295972
>We are humanity. War is our craft. Sacrifice is our medium.
Fuck, man. I just want to die in a hail of artillery defending my apartment against overwhelming odds. Is that so much to ask?
>Tfw I will never curse the wind as it robs me of life itself, bringing with it the grit and poison gasses of trench warfare.
>Tfw no frostbitten toes
Fucking Florida is so boring.
>>28292604
>claymores
>WWII
Sureeeeeeeeeee.....................................
>>28296357
Claymore, not claymores. It's a sword.
>>28296357
A Claymore is a sword. Some officers are still presented swords. The "Claymore mine" is a triggered explosive.
>Implying you wouldn't tape a mine to your chest in a last-ditch effort to remove kebab
>>28296393
>to remove kebab, you must become kebab
>>28292604
He was a complete retard.
You should be nominating his squad for keeping Captain Autism alive through the whole fucking war.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york.html
When all was said and done, Alvin York had single-handedly killed 28 enemy soldiers and captured 128 enlisted men, 4 officers and 32 machine guns without suffering so much as a scratch
>>28292876
You sure you're not thinking about the plotline for the movie The Negotiator with Samuel Jackson?
>>28296547
Not him but that sounds about right
>>28292800
>>28292876
Larry Davis he was stabbed in 08 in prison. He was aquitted of like 5 murder charges because cops framed him for it. He evaded the police for 17 days after the shootout
>>28293538
>we should admire people even though they willfully serve politicians, dictators, and all the worst scum of humanity
militarism is for idiots
>>28292635
SOG were so fucking badass everyone must read this book
http://www.amazon.com/Sog-Secret-Americas-Commandos-Vietnam/dp/0451195086
>>28296879
You're cute when you're angry.
>>28294238
Google searching "Jack Churchill (far right) leads a training exercise, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat in Inveraray." brings up a few websites that say it was.
No clue on their claims. Since it is Wikipedia and other sites copying it I believe.
this fuckin guy
>>28295921
Except it's a broadsword...
>>28293010
He's the German equivalent of Hogan from Hogan's Heroes. Except he's real.
>>28296956
much valor
>>28296353
Depends on where in Florida. I'm in Pensacola and there was gun fire in the apartment near my house a few nights ago.
>>28297123
Do you need a shoulder to cry on?
>>28297123
I'd rather die gloriously in a hail of bullets than at the age of 80, shitting myself in bed.
>>28292635
some say he's still operating
>>28297358
only tears of laughter, brah
>>28297415
>this attitude
>this board
Let's be honest. You're either a noguns faggot here to troll, or some contrarian fuckwit who only feels strongly about issues the rest of the world has already made a decision on because it makes you feel different.
>>28292685
My nig
>>28297415
I agree with him >>28297469
This thread already rand it's course so I don't mine baiting you dude. I'd guess you're in your early 20s late teens, probably in college, liberal and a good chance you don't live in the States, if you do you live in a very blue state.
>>28297490
Horatio at the Bridge. Really meh story got blown the fuck out of proportion, two other guys who stood with him get zero mention, etc.
How much more /k/ does it get?
>>28297469
>all gun owners must be militarists
>board is on weapons, not military culture or military worship
go back to /y/
>>28292604
The swiss Eidgenossen in the Battle of Morgarten
they beat the equivalent of the modern US army, the Holy roman empire, literally by lobbing rocks down a hill and crushing them
>>28297493
>i must neatly classify people with opposing opinions in order to dismiss them based on preconceptions
btw you're wrong on everything except for blue state, and that's rural blue state to boot
>>28297383
I'd rather die for politicians in some third-world shithole in a losing war instead of living a full, possibly productive life (too bad working for the government usually precludes that).
The Varangian Guard
Old school kebabk removing spec ops
>>28296353
So go join the Peshmerga and be on the side of the only good guys in the mid east: Kurdistan.
>>28297558
Faggot pansy
>>28297558
Oh gotcha, you're a statist my mistake
>>28298229
>worships people who murder for the government
>calls others statists
topkek
>>28298281
>worships people who murder for the government
Do you not know where you are?
>>28292685
Based af
>>28297518
>two other guys who stood with him get zero mention
Wait wut
>Then out spake Spurius Lartius,—
> A Ramnian proud was he:
>“Lo, I will stand at thy right hand,
> And keep the bridge with thee.”
>And out spake strong Herminius,—
> Of Titian blood was he:
>“I will abide on thy left side,
> And keep the bridge with thee.”
>>28296961
He did shoot a German with a longbow once though
>>28298281
>murder for the government
Just kill your self.
>>28298367
A board which has been hijacked by milfags?
>>28297010
This guy right here is right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Lettow-Vorbeck
Led only successful invasion of British Soil during WWI while leading an undefeated army of German and African soldiers. Tied up over 300k troops during the war and when the SMS Konisberg scuttled itself he unmounted it's guns and used them as artillery for his men.
After the war he had a fond distaste of Hitler and told him to go fuck himself to his face.
Guy was Germany's Teddy Roosevelt.
>>28292652
He should have been relieved of his command on peleliu.
>>28299522
>actually talented military commander
>Teddy Roosevelt
pick one
>>28299464
Goddamn, how many days have you been on this board?
>>28299733
>implying milfag shitposting hasn't been endemic on this board forever
remember, military culture is not weapons related
>>28299739
You're trying to use my point against me. I was telling you that this isn't new and you sound like a new fag. This has been part of board as long as we've had this board. How is this still new to you?
>>28292604
>Lands on a beach that was already secure enough so that rear echelon photographs could freely operate without danger
>Photograph the deranged relative of some famous prick who gets special treatment and is kept away from harm's reach.
>Deranged man is the equivalent of a modern fedora and brings his katana to war.
>This is a bad-ass according to /k/
>>28299803
people need to be reminded, brah
>>28300281
He wasnt actually related to Winston Churchill, and he holds the only recorded kill using a longbow in WWII. He also captured a mortar team single handed using the sword.
So, fat faggot blowhards from history? Why would legitimate operators ever be a /k/ommando?
Very obscure and he only has one impressive feat, but I just love Fritz Christen.
> On the morning of September 24, 1941, Christen and his anti-tank battery were engaging Russian targets north of the village of Lushno. In an initial engagement, Soviet skirmishers killed all of the other men of the battery. While exposed to artillery and small arms fire, Christen manned his 50mm cannonalone, holding on without supplies or provisions for the next three days. When a counterattack by other Totenkopf troops recaptured Lushno, Christen was credited with having knocked out 13 Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers singlehandedly.
>you will never defend a hilltop from hordes of unwashed Soviet swine with your close friends and trusty K98k
>>28292604
Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 1st Baronet, KCB, DSO & Bar, MVO
"During World War II he was given a job by his old friend Roger Keyes, then head of the Commandos. Cowan voluntarily took the lower rank of commander and went to Scotland in 1941 to train the commandos in small boat handling.[1] He served in North Africa, where he saw action at Mechili and at the Battle of Bir Hakeim. Having attached himself to the Indian 18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry, he was captured on 27 May 1942,[1] having fought an Italian tank crew single-handedly armed only with a revolver. He was repatriated in 1943 under an unusual agreement with Italy whereby some 800 Italian seamen interned in neutral Saudi Arabia from the Red Sea Flotilla were exchanged for a similar number of British prisoners of war. An unusual feature was that there was no stipulation about the men’s future activities and they were free to return to action so he rejoined the commandos and saw action in Italy during 1944. He was awarded a bar to his DSO. He retired once more in 1945. After the war he was invited to become colonel of the 18th King Edward VII's Own and visited India to receive this honour, which he considered the greatest he had received."
This guy was 68 years old at the beginning of WW2
>>28293353
>>28293003
Continuing the theme of "badass dudes with Sabaton songs about them," Witold Pilecki. Fought in WWI, then resisted the Soviets in 1923 both as a part of the regular army and the Polish partisan forces. Then in 1939, the Nazis invaded, and he was a cavalry platoon commander (and later divisional second-in-command) and led his unit in heavy fighting near Lviv, until the Soviet invasion led to Poland's surrender. But that's only the beginning. After his division was disbanded, he returned to Warsaw with his former commanding officer, Major Jan Włodarkiewicz, and formed the Secret Polish Army, the first of what would become many resistance groups. Then, in 1940, he went to Auschwitz, under a false name. At the time it was believed to be a POW/detention camp, and his intent was to collect intelligence and try to start a resistance movement. Not only did he accomplish that, but he passed documents along to the Polish Home Army (then forwarded to the Allies) detailing camp operations and the Holocaust.
Since the British and resistance wouldn't stage a mass breakout or assault on Auschwitz, he then fucking broke out while assigned to a shift at the bakery outside the camp with two other men, stealing a pile of German documents on the way. Then he linked back up with the Home Army, assisting them however he could (and starting a preemptive resistance movement against the Soviets) until the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Being fucking badass as all hell, he proceeded to fight as a private, not revealing his identity or rank until the loss of many officers forced him to step up and take command. Pilecki's bastion on the outskirts of Warsaw held for two weeks under heavy German attack, continually harassing their supply lines. After a time in Italy with the Polish army-in-exile, he returned to Poland to gather intelligence for the government-in-exile. Eventually captured and executed as a spy by the Soviets, his final words were "Long live free Poland!"
>>28297558
Stop making muh Iowa look bad, m'kay?
>>28300771
God damn, that man led one hell of a life. It's almost not even tragic that he was executed because it's almost like a formal end to a face-melting solo of a song.
>>28293853
Don't forget he founded his own heavy metal band at fucking age 88, and put out 2(!!) albums before his death.
>>28292604
Jan Žižka
> Žižka's tactics were unorthodox and innovative. In addition to training and equipping his army according to their abilities, he used armored wagons armed with small cannons and muskets, presaging the tank of five hundred years later. He was also a master at using geography to full advantage as well as managing the discipline of his troops.
>never lost a battle
motherfucker saw heavy ass wooden wagons and said "lets straps some metal plating and cannons to that shit" is he not the ultimate /k/omando
>>28302218
Another good one from the same-ish era, John III Sobieski, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Most /k/-worthy action took place during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, in which kebab was removed with extreme prejudice, breaking the threat of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The Ottomans were laying siege to Vienna, digging mines and other assorted bastardry, when the Holy League reinforcements arrived. For some reason, instead of fighting the relieving army, they continued trying to breach the walls of the city, leaving their flanks open and vulnerable from the rear. Sobieski took advantage of this in a ridiculously magnificent way, leading an 18,000-man cavalry charge to smash through the Turks. And of course, this was in the era where kings went to war in person, so Sobieski himself led it at the head of a formation of 3000 Winged Hussars.
>>28302369
>winged hussars
how can one calvary type be so based.
>>28292854
>Fought in BOTH World Wars
>Shot in the face
>Shot in the head
>Shot in the ankle
>Shot in the leg
>Shot in the hip
>Shot in the ear
>Lost an eye
>Bit off his own fingertips after a doc refused to amputate them
>Survived a plane crash
>Tunneled out of a POW camp
>"Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
Dude was one tough sumbitch.
>Ctrl+f
>"Saladin"
>"Rommel"
>0 of 0
>>28295956
Indeed, the people who watched their friends heads get blown off in front of them are just being bitches. This guy was lucky, nothing more.
>>28293538
Soldiers should not fight for brutes, bullies, and heartless warmongers. Soldiers should fight for liberty, justice, and above all peace. That is what distinguishes cannon-fodder from warriors.
>>28297572
Watch out, you don't want to cut yourself on that edge
>>28302820
>facts are now edgy
The one extremely angry /K/anadian who held off a company of Chinese troops in Korea with a Bren Gun.
Can't remember his name though.
>>28294227
>>28302738
>>28296879
but in democracies it is our soldiers who believe that is what they are fighting for, if it isn't then it's the moral duty of the Citizens to change their cause to uphold liberty, if every soldier was so politically aware and ready to advocate we wouldn't have a functioning military. it's not fare to judge the character of a soldier by the orders given by the democratically elected government.
>>28296319
>people literally believe half the shit they say about him
Fucking retards
I am sure he was bad as fuck, but reading about him sounds more like a bbeg of a shitty roleplaying game
FLASHMAN, Harry Paget, brigadier-general, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E.
Chevalier, Legion of Honour; Order of Maria Theresa, Austria; Order of the Elephant, Denmark (temporary); U.S. Medal of Honor; San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth, 4th class.
Educated Rugby School, 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers. Served Afghanistan 1841-2; chief of staff to H.M. James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, Batang Luper expedition, 1844; military adviser with unique rank of sergeant-general to H.M. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, 1844-5; Sutleg campaign, 1845-6; political adviser to Herr (later Chancellor Prince) von Bismarck, Schleswig-Holstein, 1847-8; Crimea, staff, prisoner of war, 1854; artillery adviser to Atalik Ghazi, Syr Daria campaign, 1855; India, Sepoy Mutiny, 1857-8, diplomatic envoy to H.R.H. the Maharani of Jhansi, trooper 3rd Native Cavalry, Meerut, subsequently attached Rowbotham’s Mosstroopers, Cawnpore (V.C.); adjutant to Captain John Brown, Harper’s Ferry, 1859; China campaign 1860, political mission to Nanking, Taiping Rebellion, political and other services, Imperial Court, Pekin; U.S. Army (major, Union forces, 1862; colonel, Army of the Confederacy, 1863); aide-de-camp to H.I.M. Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1867; interpreter and observer Sioux campaign, U.S., 1875-6; Zulu War, 1879; Egypt 1882; personal bodyguard to H.I.M. Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, 1883; Sudan 1884-5; Pekin Legations, 1900.
Traveled widely in military and civilian capacities, among them supercargo, merchant marine (West Africa), agriculturist (Mississippi valley), wagon captain and hotelier (Santa Fe Trail); buffalo hunter and scout (Oregon Trail); majordomo (India), prospector (Australia); trader and missionary (Solomon Islands, Fly River, etc.), lottery supervisor (Manila), diamond broker and horse coper (Punjab), deputy marshal (U.S.), occasional actor and impersonator.
>>28303864
Flashman is fiction, my Brother ...
>>28292604
>honorary basement-dwelling neckbeard weebs
Damn, what an honor for them.
>>28293449
This is so typical British army it pisses me the fuck off.
I'm an officer atm so I can tell you, the amount of times retarded orders have to become reality because nobody will second guess them and there is nobody around at the correct level in the chain of command to countermand them or change the plan in order to be more sensible.
I guess this is a problem in every military though
