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Tchocky

03-30-08 06:40 PM

Royal Marine for Victoria Cross

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...ds/7321647.stm

Wow

Trex	03-30-08 11:25 PM

"First to land..."

Venatore

03-31-08 02:09 AM

Excellent :up:

Jimbuna

03-31-08 06:03 AM

Good luck to him :up:

Tchocky

03-31-08 06:10 AM

I'm trying to imagine the atmosphere in the squad after he survived that blast.

"Er, thanks mate. Er..."

XXi	03-31-08 08:22 AM

I think that he deserves the Victoria Cross.

Trex	03-31-08 10:31 AM

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!

mr chris

03-31-08 11:05 AM

Deffently deserves the VC.

bookworm_020

03-31-08 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tchocky

I'm trying to imagine the atmosphere in the squad after he survived that blast.

"Er, thanks mate. Er..."

I sure he didn't have to buy drinks after that!:yep:

Tango589

04-01-08 12:50 PM

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.:up:

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