{"id":8287,"date":"2015-09-23T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2015-09-23T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:00:07","slug":"bad-ass-of-the-weeks-douglas-bader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/23\/bad-ass-of-the-weeks-douglas-bader\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad-Ass of the Week: Douglas Bader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/bader.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8289\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/bader.jpg\" alt=\"bader\" width=\"404\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday September 15<sup>th<\/sup> was the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Battle of Britain Day \u2013 the high point in an epic five-month campaign that ripped apart the skies above England during the early stages of World War II.\u00a0 With Hitler noscope teabagging all of Europe in 1939 and 1940 and celebrating like he\u2019d just blindsided a QB and was busting out the most epic sack dance ever, the bloodied-but-not-defeated pilots and ground crews of Great Britain\u2019s Royal Air Force were all that stood between civilization as we know it and one of those fucked-up dystopian Young Adult fictional Hunger Games dystopia.\u00a0 If the outnumbered fighter pilots of the RAF couldn\u2019t pry air superiority from the cold, dead hands of Fascism, then there would be nothing the UK to do to prevent Hitler from sailing across the Channel on an inner tube and sticking his dick in the mashed potatoes at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>There are countless tales of brave, heroic pilots the UK sent forth to do battle with Nazis at 348 miles per hour, upside-down, at 10,000 feet above the earth, but none have been more enduring, more celebrated, or more fucking completely gonzo insane in the membrane than the story of Flight Commander Douglas Bader \u2013 the badass, pipe-smoking, cool-as-hell humanitarian\/gunslinger who found a way to repeatedly kick the crap out of the Germans even though he didn\u2019t have the lower half of his legs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s a fucking Battle of Britain Iron Maiden video that\u2019s going to pump you up so hard you either pop a boner or hit someone in the face with a shovel, or possibly do both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ve4kcWuQYsU\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ve4kcWuQYsU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/badassoftheweek.com\/index.cgi?id=291520032463\">Bad-Ass of the Week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday September 15th was the 75th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day \u2013 the high point in an epic five-month campaign that ripped apart the skies above England during the early stages of World War II.\u00a0 With Hitler noscope teabagging all of Europe in 1939 and 1940 and celebrating like he\u2019d just blindsided a QB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,1286,1860],"tags":[2256,2257,2258,2259,2260],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}