Posted on 12/01/2020 12:32:02 AM PST by RandFan
Senior Australian special forces soldiers drank beer out of the prosthetic leg of a dead Taliban soldier at an unauthorised bar in Afghanistan – with a photograph of the act being revealed for the first time by Guardian Australia.
A number of photographs obtained by the Guardian show one senior soldier – who is still serving – sculling from the leg in an unofficial bar known as the Fat Lady’s Arms, which was set up inside Australia’s special forces base in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan province, in 2009.
Another appears to show two soldiers performing a dance with the leg.
The sculling picture is the first to be published that confirms previous reports of the practice of using the leg as a drinking vessel.
Some soldiers say the practice was widely tolerated by officers at high levels and even involved some of them. This was despite the limb potentially being a war trophy – an item Australian soldiers were forbidden to remove from the battlefield, let alone keep.
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It is far from being classy but I don’t see a big thing in it either.
I’ve heard of a hollow leg but this is ridiculous.
And the problem is?
The owner had no further need of it. What’s the crime?
That kind of top down hindsighted authoritarian micromanagement is probably the reason why the taliban fight against it. One day we may find ourselves fighting it too.
Biersteifel. Its a rite of passage for your first German tour. Now, they dont usually have masty body parts sweating and bleeding in them. Not a crime, but maybe a teftesher on hygiene. #mobocracy in an uproar.
The article suggests it could be seen as pillaging which is a crime..
To the victor go the spoils.
China has a full-out PR campaign against Australia running in the Western media. They have terrific cooperation from Western media...
No doubt in my mind that Guardian management has been caught in China ‘honey traps’.
Maybe the poor dude was unable to find a glass to drink his beer in, so you just do what you have to do.
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Vote wrong, and next thing ya know some bloke from Oz is swilling grog from yer peg leg. Aaahhrrrggghhhh!!
Handwringers oughta be happy it’s not the koranimal’s f’n SKULL.
Oh! The inhumanity. And he wasn’t wearing a mask. Time for a new Nurenberg trial.
VERY insightful post!
There was a Scot that had their enemy decraniumed, the top of the skull being turned into a drinking vessel that..leaked due to the suture joints so said skullcap eventually only contained nuts.
The soldier was looking for a leg up
*** It is far from being classy but I don’t see a big thing in it either. ***
Military brat here. If I had ever seen a photo of my Father doing something like that, I would not have felt pride in his action, and I probably would have always carried a creepy cringe feeling towards him.
Can I get a poster? Hope it was a Fosters he was drinking!
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