Posted: 1/21/2011 12:44:58 AM EDT
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Can't post the link from the iPhone but here's the story
From Sky Oz SAS Man Gets VC After Daring Assault Last Updated 03:28 21/01/2011 Ian Woods, Australia correspondent An Australian SAS solider is to be awarded the Victoria Cross for single-handedly storming a lethal Taliban machine-gun post in Afghanistan. His colleagues described his action as the most conspicuous act of bravery by an Australian soldier in a hundred years. Known only as lance corporal Ben, the specialist sniper rushed into machine-gun fire in Shah Wali Kot in northern Kandahar last October. The Sydney Daily Telegraph reports that within moments, three weapons were silenced and numerous Taliban fighters had been killed. The soldier, who is 6 feet 7 tall, and has already earned a Medal of Gallantry on a previous tour of Afghanistan, will be presented with his VC by Australia's Governor General on January 23. He was part of a 24-strong team of SAS troopers dropped by helicopter after reports that the Taliban were about to launch an assault on a combined unit of Australian and Afghan Army forces. They immediately came under heavy fire, but the lance corporal's actions impressed his colleagues, who described him as a "warrior" who "just tore into the enemy". They said it was the most extreme example of conspicuous gallantry since Albert Jacka was awarded a VC after jumping into a trench full of Turkish soldiers at Gallipoli in 1915, killing seven of them. Lance corporal Ben will become the second Australian to be given a VC for bravery in Afghanistan, in a conflict that has seen 21 Australians die. Trooper Mark Donaldson received the top award in 2008 for protecting wounded soldiers under heavy enemy fire and rescuing a wounded Afghan interpreter. |
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Sorry mate, but it's a dupe:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1140402 |
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Maybe in your part of the world Mr Gamma, but I've only just read it here 
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