what are the coolest, one-off roles in military history? i mean

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the dude in the two towers who carried the torch and jumped into the bombs the sapper orcs had set up to blow the wall at helms deep

flamethrower role in WW1 or stalingrad

Riding an elephant into battle?

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>>33624302
>hahahaha, fuck yeah
this is a good idea for a thread but why the fuck did you add this?

i think kamikaze planes as an official military tactic by an established fighting force (ie. not ISIS or Al Qaeda terrorism) was a unique and probably one-time event.

>>33624414
because that's all i would say when lobbing bombs?

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This thread has the potential to be cool. bumping

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>>33624363

>>33624447
>because that's all i would say when lobbing bombs?
Are you 12?

>>33624494
yes

>>33624528
Oh okay
Some advice, don't finger that weird girl in your class after school. It won't end well

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back on track:
stormtroopers seem like a pretty one-go unit, trained and equipped for a type of warfare we won't see on that scale again, hopefully

>>33624302
WW1 pilots.

>get in shitty biplane and fly over trenches
>wave to your guys as you fly over
>firm fist shake or terse nod as you fly over the enemy
>some poor dude practically hangs off the side of the plane sketching the battlefield
>sometimes you throw grenades out the side
>when you see enemy planes just nod and wave

WW1 Trench Raiders. have to use knives, knuckle dusters, and sharpened spades to silently kill the enemy because guns are too loud.

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>>33624553
This, she will only tell all of her friends, word will get back to parents and that will only backfire on you. Enjoy your childhood while you can.

>>33624743
that first dogfight with pistols
on a flying horse, posture upright. looking at the other man in the face with your pistol drawn

>>33624744
i think the last bayonet charge was called a british unit in iraq

"fix bayonets"

it was a counter-ambush offensive run irrc

Flag bearer.

Imagine walking into battle with no gun but a fucking flag right near the front line for "morale." You're holding a giant waving thing that says, "please shoot cannonballs here pls."

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>>33624867
>brraaaAAAAAAAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMpdX_amXk

1:40

>>33624963
I thought it was Gurkhas in Afghanistan. Which makes sense because Gurkhas.

>>33625266
the brits were the last charge at some point the last few years, but yes there are more recent accounts i saw looking

>>33624302
German Landsknechts Doppelsoldner or for hard mode try this

In addition to pike squares, landsknechts employed a tactic called the verlorene haufe or “forlorn hope” whereby a thin line of double-handed swordsmen and halberdiers would charge an opposing igel darting in between the enemy’s pikes in an attempt to break up their ranks. Forlorn hopes were made up of volunteers hoping for glory or condemned men seeking redemption. Since these mad-dashes were almost always fatal for those taking part, attackers fought beneath a blood red banner

>>33624339
meaty

Bezerkers.
>Go innawoods
>Be butt naked.
>Be tripping on drugs
>Find bear, kill bear.
>WITH AN AXE.
>Come back to mead hall.
>Be covered in bear blood, far and semen.
>Be wearing bear fur.
>Charge shield wall while REEEEEEEEEEEEEE'ing
It's the most /k/ thing ever.

>>33624620

>stormtroopers seem like a pretty one-go unit, trained and equipped for a type of warfare we won't see on that scale again, hopefully

stormfags, lol, you nazicuck

>>33630043
I assume he meant the ww1 storm troopers

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>>33625178
me whenever I see a based brappost or thiccpost

>>33624302
Honestly I would say Kamikazis even if they were a one time thing like>>33624414 said

>>33624339
I'd berry my face in that ass for hours.

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>>33630043
>stoormtroopers automatically implies nazis

lol wut

>>33627635
It's also 110% not real

>>33627635
But that never happened, Anon.

Tunnel rat
>be smallest guy in squad
>get stripped of all gear, handed a 1911 and a flashlight
>sent into dark, probably booby-trapped tunnel that might be filled with enemy waiting for you
>"poke around for a bit; tell us what you find."
>this is the price of being a manlet

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Guys who used these to attach bombs to enemy ships.

>>33625188
source please

>>33627635
>Big build from farmin
>Chieftan says you must join his boat to england
>Handed a long axe
>Dont have armor, best option is some animal skins
>Arrive in england, its raining
>Only want to go home to wife
>Angry englishmen attacks
>You're a big guy, guard that bridge
>Get stabbed in the balls by sneaky english

Such is life of a berserker

>>33630043
Holy shit, I never thought I'd see the day that /k/ couldn't look at something objectively, we really have become /pol/

>>33630612
From the stories, that guy killed a fuck ton of people. Got to the point he was chucking people into the river

>>33624620
Isn't that basically all soldiers today?

>>33630508
At least you most likely wouldn't be doing it while on LSD.

The MOS that was in charge of guarding Special Atomic Demolition Munitions.