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British officer wins two gallantry awards for fending off Taliban attack with bayonet
The Daily Telegraph ^
| Published: 9:00PM BST 12 Sep 2009
| Sean Rayment
Posted on 09/12/2009 3:49:27 PM PDT by protest1
British officer wins two gallantry awards for fending off Taliban attack with bayonet
A young British officer, Lieutenant James Adamson, who won two gallantry awards while serving in Afghanistan has told how he fended off an enemy attack by bayoneting a Taliban fighter to death.
Lieutenant James Adamson was awarded the Military Cross after killing two insurgents during close quarter combat in Helmand's notorious "Green Zone".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Announcements; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; army; bayonet; brits; earnsnotwins; waronterror
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The 24-year-old officer, a member of the 5th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, revealed that he shouted
"have some of this" before shooting dead a gunman who had just emerged from a maize field.
Seconds later and out of ammunition, the lieutenant leapt over a river bank and killed a second insurgent machine-gunner with a single thrust of his bayonet in the man's chest.
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posted on
09/12/2009 3:49:28 PM PDT
by
protest1
To: protest1
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posted on
09/12/2009 3:52:12 PM PDT
by
Argus
(We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
To: Argus
To: protest1
One of my men, Corporal Billy Carnegie, reached us, looked at the two dead Taliban on the ground and then saw the blood on my bayonet and said "boss what the **** have you been doing?" Taking care of business I'd say!
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posted on
09/12/2009 3:55:26 PM PDT
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
To: protest1
Quocunque Jeceris Stabit!
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posted on
09/12/2009 3:55:45 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: protest1
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posted on
09/12/2009 4:00:00 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
To: protest1
They don’t make a lot of guys like this one. Great job sir!
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posted on
09/12/2009 4:00:30 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
To: protest1
Lt Adamson, who ... comes from the Isle of ManIn more ways than one!
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posted on
09/12/2009 4:04:54 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: NonValueAdded
Isn’t that where Bear Grills was born? Quite a place.
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posted on
09/12/2009 4:06:49 PM PDT
by
blueglass
To: ladyvet
That cracked me up haha. Good lord he looks young!
To: protest1
Sounds like sex education ... he taught the Taliban not to f**k with him!
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posted on
09/12/2009 4:33:08 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(It's the skinny end of the wedge that goes in first.)
To: protest1
My Bay'nit When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit
And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore;
But blimey! I 'aven't been able to stain it,
So far as I've gone wiv the vintage of war.
For ain't it a fraud! when a Boche and yours truly
Gits into a mix in the grit and the grime,
'E jerks up 'is 'ands wiv a yell and 'e's duly
Part of me outfit every time.
Left, right, Hans and Fritz!
Goose step, keep up yer mits!
Oh my, Ain't it a shyme!
Part of me outfit every time.
At toasting a biscuit me bay'nit's a dandy;
I've used it to open a bully beef can;
For pokin' the fire it comes in werry 'andy;
For any old thing but for stickin' a man.
'Ow often I've said: "'Ere, I'm goin' to press you
Into a 'Un till you're seasoned for prime,"
And fiercely I rushes to do it, but bless you!
Part of me outfit every time.
Lor, yus; DON'T they look glad?
Right O! 'Owl Kamerad!
Oh my, always the syme!
Part of me outfit every time.
I'm 'untin' for someone to christen me bay'nit,
Some nice juicy Chewton wot's fightin' in France;
I'm fairly down-'earted -- 'ow CAN yer explain it?
I keeps gettin' prisoners every chance.
As soon as they sees me they ups and surrenders,
Extended like monkeys wot's tryin' to climb;
And I uses me bay'nit -- to slit their suspenders --
Part of me outfit every time.
Four 'Uns; lor, wot a bag!
'Ere, Fritz, sample a fag!
Oh my, ain't it a gyme!
Part of me outfit every time.
--- Robert Service
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:02:01 PM PDT
by
Clive
To: protest1
Q: What is the spirit of the bayonet?
A: To kill, to kill, with cold-blooded steel, Drill Sergeant!
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:08:17 PM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(The Weather Underground now occupies the White House.)
To: Argus
You can tell them by the sound...they clang when they walk.
To: Rumplemeyer; cardinal4
I was volunteering in a local hospital yesterday, and because we were short of escorts, a guy was called in off the golf course to help. I guess he’s close to 80. He had a tat on his right forearm, a bulldog with a DI’s campaign hat. We got talking, in between taking patients out to their waiting cars. He had been in Korea, and showed me some of his scars. He’d been in hand-to-hand combat twice, once with the NORKS and once with the CHICOMS. He’d been pretty badly cut up, but came out on top with both opponents. He said that the reason he won was because he and his fellow Marines kept their bayonets razor sharp. A word to the wise.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:33:44 PM PDT
by
Ax
(...Aux Armes, Citoyens....)
To: protest1
But back in the U.K. he could well go to jail for using a penknife to defend himself against deadly assault.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:35:12 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
To: Lexington Green
Q: What is the spirit of the bayonet?
A: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra!
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:37:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blueglass
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posted on
09/12/2009 6:47:14 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: tet68
The bayonet is a weapon designed by sexist pigs to make female soldiers feel inferior.
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posted on
09/12/2009 7:14:21 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: protest1
True heroes:
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS) is based at Howe Barracks in Canterbury. It is an air Assault Battalion and part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, Britain's Rapid Reaction Force.
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posted on
09/13/2009 1:15:30 AM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is not 'free'.)
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