Harrowing footage captured near Tal Afar, Iraq, shows a heroic last stand by an Iraqi Police Officer who does everything in his power to stop an insurgent suicide attack in 2006.

Here's some incredible heroism captured on camera. As a community, we always give the older Iraqi military crap for being bad at warfighting. Here's footage that proves us flat-out wrong though. It features a simple Iraqi Soldier standing guard duty at a vehicle checkpoint near Tel Afar in 2006. As the vehicle approaches he's ready to do his duty. He quickly clocks that's something wrong, and he doesn't hesitate even for a minute. The man lifts his rifle and engages with everything he has while back-peddling.

Because of his actions, the suicide bomber was forced to detonate his car bomb early. The only people who died are the car bomber himself, and the Iraqi Police Officer who laid his life on the line so that other's might live.

Salute to this guy. He did his job well. I hope his family is doing okay.