I cannot sum this one up any better than the headline: Marine absorbs IED blast, walks away.

Marines who witnessed the event from inside the compound caught glimpses of [Cpl. Matt] Garst’s feet flailing through the air just above the other side of the building’s eight-foot walls. The explosion knocked him at least fifteen feet away where he landed on his limp head and shoulders before immediately standing back up.

Not quite sure of what had just happened, Garst turned back toward the blast, now nothing but a column of dirt and smoke rising toward the sun.

“My first thought was, ‘Oh s—, I just hit an IED,’” he said. “Then I thought, ‘Well I’m standing. That’s good.’”

Read the rest of the story here. It includes Garst’s response to the incident: “It pissed me off.”