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03-30-2008, 06:40 PM
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Navy Seal
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Royal Marine for Victoria Cross
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03-30-2008, 11:25 PM
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Lieutenant
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"First to land..."
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03-31-2008, 02:09 AM
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Admiral
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Excellent
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 40,000 men of the Kriegsmarine served on German U-Boats during WWII, 30,000 perished. German U-Boats fought from the first day of hostilities, till the very last day of the war. To date; the German U-Boats sustained the highest casualty rate of any unit in any war. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun & in the morning, we will remember them, lest we forget |
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03-31-2008, 06:03 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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Location: 250 metres below the surface
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Good luck to him
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03-31-2008, 06:10 AM
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Navy Seal
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I'm trying to imagine the atmosphere in the squad after he survived that blast.
"Er, thanks mate. Er..."
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03-31-2008, 08:22 AM
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中国水兵
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I think that he deserves the Victoria Cross.
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03-31-2008, 10:31 AM
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Lieutenant
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There certainly has been at least one VC awarded for that, in Hong Kong, but it was posthumous. Sadly, although the level of bravery is not one whit less, I suspect the staffazoids and bureaucrats will somehow count his survival against it.
This is by no means limited to any one country. I was surfing a US site on Medals of Honour citations. It got damned depressing - every other one from Vietnam was, "...threw himself on grenade... posthumous'. Yike! |
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03-31-2008, 11:05 AM
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Silent Hunter
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Deffently deserves the VC.
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03-31-2008, 07:32 PM
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Navy Seal
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Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast
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04-01-2008, 12:50 PM
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Ruler of the Deep
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This man is a credit to the Royal Marines and I sincerely hope he is awarded the VC. If the award was up for public poll as to the winner he would get my vote.
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