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"I got through six boxes in about 15 minutes and we were winning the fight," he said. "They started it. We were going to finish it." ...Hields said: "It turned out the bullet had smashed a rib and gone out of me again without touching any internal organs which was very lucky. It was just a flesh wound really."
Gotta love that kid.
43 posted on 03/10/2008 7:59:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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"I got through six boxes in about 15 minutes and we were winning the fight," he said. "They started it. We were going to finish it." ...Hields said: "It turned out the bullet had smashed a rib and gone out of me again without touching any internal organs which was very lucky. It was just a flesh wound really."

Gotta love that kid.

Then there's Sgt. Talaiasi Labalaba at Mirbat, one of 9 SAS men against 250-plus enemies during the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman, 19 July 1972.


68 posted on 03/12/2008 8:42:57 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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