Posted on 03/10/2008 6:00:21 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
A BRITISH soldier who almost single-handedly took on 150 Taliban after he and his 50-man convoy were ambushed in Afghanistan has been awarded the Military Cross.
Fusilier Damien Hields used his grenade machinegun to destroy seven Taliban positions before his ambushers realised he was their main threat. After peppering his vehicle with bullets, they hit the 24-year-old soldier. He had to be dragged off for treatment by his driver after he tried to continue fighting.
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Not sure as to exact stuff I had but every pin and detent, spring etc was done on that little SW37 with a bobbed hammer........ I remember putting it back together and the cross pin into the lug under the front barrel where the lock up was for the ejection rod had to be worn down a bit with some 6000 grit cockpit cloth to get it back in. Very nice and after decades of daily wear and tear it is just polished smooth in places vs worn off to reveal the alloy frame or steel barrel etc .......very good stuff !
Have ya heard of the use of Line-x truck bed liner on old surplus wood stocks like Mex & Swedish Mauser’s ? Awesome fit and finish and really nice !
“In Russian nomenclature, one type would be called 41mm, even if it was 40mm, to avoid battlefield mis-shipments.”
Yes, I remember reading that way back when there was a Soviet Union. They had to deal with dozens of ethnic groups in their conscript military and a lot of them didn’t do Russian very well. But they could relay numbers good enough. Null, odin dva tre...
It makes perfect sense to me. Only engineers would need to know that the 81mm mortar was actually 82.
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