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Bisley_Bob
09-13-2009, 07:25 PM
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.

Read the article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6178044/British-officer-wins-two-gallantry-awards-for-fending-off-Taliban-attack-with-bayonet.html
GTFPDQ
09-13-2009, 11:55 PM
Quite the story. Young man has some rather large gonads. Good skills.

Nice to see that the bayonet is still appreciated.
nastyleg
09-14-2009, 12:20 AM
Last major bayounet charge was by Brits in Iraq. As memory(ha what a joke it is) serves me
Bisley_Bob
09-14-2009, 06:37 AM
The bayonet is used a lot in the green zone so the "bayonet charge" by a platoon from the then Argyll and Southern Highlanders (now 5 Scots) is probably not the most recent one any more.
I just realised that this Lieutenant is from the same Battalion, they are getting quite a tradition going!
bobdina
09-14-2009, 11:00 AM
Great read ,sorry I did not respond earlier I let myself become distracted, gives a whole new meaning to the term stick and move.
nastyleg
09-14-2009, 02:12 PM
or something stuck in your craw...lol
bobdina
09-14-2009, 11:30 PM
or something stuck in your craw...lol

Yeah I was picking my teeth with a fakers bones.