The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS) is based at Howe Barracks in Canterbury. It is an air Assault Battalion and part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, Britain's Rapid Reaction Force.
Posted on 09/12/2009 3:49:27 PM PDT by protest1
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.
Lieutenant James Adamson was awarded the Military Cross after killing two insurgents during close quarter combat in Helmand's notorious "Green Zone".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Seconds later and out of ammunition, the lieutenant leapt over a river bank and killed a second insurgent machine-gunner with a single thrust of his bayonet in the man's chest.
Highlanders!
Indeed!
Taking care of business I'd say!
Tallie-kabob.
They don’t make a lot of guys like this one. Great job sir!
In more ways than one!
Isn’t that where Bear Grills was born? Quite a place.
That cracked me up haha. Good lord he looks young!
Sounds like sex education ... he taught the Taliban not to f**k with him!
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit
And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore;
But blimey! I 'aven't been able to stain it,
So far as I've gone wiv the vintage of war.
For ain't it a fraud! when a Boche and yours truly
Gits into a mix in the grit and the grime,
'E jerks up 'is 'ands wiv a yell and 'e's duly
Part of me outfit every time.
Left, right, Hans and Fritz!At toasting a biscuit me bay'nit's a dandy;
Goose step, keep up yer mits!
Oh my, Ain't it a shyme!
Part of me outfit every time.
Lor, yus; DON'T they look glad?I'm 'untin' for someone to christen me bay'nit,
Right O! 'Owl Kamerad!
Oh my, always the syme!
Part of me outfit every time.
Four 'Uns; lor, wot a bag!--- Robert Service
'Ere, Fritz, sample a fag!
Oh my, ain't it a gyme!
Part of me outfit every time.
Q: What is the spirit of the bayonet?
A: To kill, to kill, with cold-blooded steel, Drill Sergeant!
I was volunteering in a local hospital yesterday, and because we were short of escorts, a guy was called in off the golf course to help. I guess he’s close to 80. He had a tat on his right forearm, a bulldog with a DI’s campaign hat. We got talking, in between taking patients out to their waiting cars. He had been in Korea, and showed me some of his scars. He’d been in hand-to-hand combat twice, once with the NORKS and once with the CHICOMS. He’d been pretty badly cut up, but came out on top with both opponents. He said that the reason he won was because he and his fellow Marines kept their bayonets razor sharp. A word to the wise.
But back in the U.K. he could well go to jail for using a penknife to defend himself against deadly assault.
Q: What is the spirit of the bayonet?
A: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra!
Isle of Mensch
The bayonet is a weapon designed by sexist pigs to make female soldiers feel inferior.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS) is based at Howe Barracks in Canterbury. It is an air Assault Battalion and part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, Britain's Rapid Reaction Force.
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