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Business_Casual
09-15-09, 08:57
You know you are a badass when you take out a PKM gunner with a bayonet:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6178044/British-officer-wins-two-gallantry-awards-for-fending-off-Taliban-attack-with-bayonet.html

M_P
HiggsBoson
09-15-09, 11:02
GET SOME! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06nIz4scvI)
parishioner
09-15-09, 11:10
Billy Bad Ass
TOrrock
09-15-09, 11:14
Damn.....
perna
09-15-09, 11:19
There is a fine line between becoming a hero, or a dead hero, or just dead.
Zhurdan
09-15-09, 11:20
Crazy man, just crazy!!!

Fixing bayonets is good for morale? Anyone in the service want to elaborate on that one? That'd probably give me an uneasy feeling that the CO knows just how close the enemy really is. :D
A-Bear680
09-15-09, 11:43
Well done.
Safetyhit
09-15-09, 12:14
Good man.

Wonder if he got to keep the PKM. :)
CarlosDJackal
09-15-09, 12:55
Keep in mind he probably did this with an SA-80!! :eek:
PRGGodfather
09-15-09, 13:24
Definitely eats red meat! Booyah!
Business_Casual
09-15-09, 14:32
he probably did this with an SA-80!! :eek:

One assumes it was rendered DX by the strike. :D

M_P
m4fun
09-15-09, 15:21
Downside of the short bullpup design, SA-80 - Now if you have an 1903...you have a speer!
SeriousStudent
09-15-09, 18:15
I am glad to hear the young officer was unharmed, and also decorated for his quick thinking in action. Well done, sir.

And his platoon sergeant is thinking: "Boy, you turn your back on these young lieutenant's for a SECOND......!" ;)
awm14hp
09-15-09, 19:27
wow how un PC of the UK.
RogerinTPA
09-15-09, 19:43
Good on the young LT. "Get Some!":p
DragonDoc
09-15-09, 21:02
Crazy man, just crazy!!!

Fixing bayonets is good for morale? Anyone in the service want to elaborate on that one? That'd probably give me an uneasy feeling that the CO knows just how close the enemy really is. :D

Fixing Bayonets enhances the warrior mindset. We are trained from the very beginning to use the bayonet as a shock weapon and an expression of your resolve to visit grievous violence against your enemy.
5pins
09-15-09, 22:28
Keep in mind he probably did this with an SA-80!! :eek:

Which explains why he had a bayonet attached in the first place.
bkb0000
09-15-09, 22:36
this is what we call Hooah, gentlemen.
M4tographer
09-15-09, 23:50
Fixing Bayonets enhances the warrior mindset. We are trained from the very beginning to use the bayonet as a shock weapon and an expression of your resolve to visit grievous violence against your enemy.

x2 I'm getting fired up right now, thinking about bayonet training. :D


this is what we call Hooah, gentlemen.

THIS
SWATcop556
09-16-09, 00:09
Very Spartan!
Zhurdan
09-16-09, 01:14
Fixing Bayonets enhances the warrior mindset. We are trained from the very beginning to use the bayonet as a shock weapon and an expression of your resolve to visit grievous violence against your enemy.

Thanks DragonDoc. I had no idea being I've never been in the service. I guess it's sort of the modern day "war paint". I am Hispanic mostly, but I have 1/4 Apache blood. From the beginning, I was always taught about the 'impression' of, I don't want to say violence.... umm... fortitude may be a more modern term. I've always ascribed to the notion that force and speed of action wins the day. I don't know who coined the pseudo phrase I mentioned, but that was the Apache way. Attack with virulence and fight your way thru the rest. Sometimes I still thank my grandmother for her ways... God rest her soul.

Thanks for the insight into why they'd fix bayonets.
armakraut
09-16-09, 02:41
Good job, sounds like the Taliban was about to do the same to him.
sewvacman
09-16-09, 07:59
"He was alive when it went in - he wasn't when it came out - it was that simple."

Gotta love that sh*t.
Gentoo
09-16-09, 08:21
That wasnt very politically correct.

:p
mattjmcd
09-16-09, 14:19
in the "ralated stories" column, there is a link to a story noting that John McAleese lost his son in Afghanistan?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/28/a-hero-s-salute-115875-21630199/

Sad news.
e5mike
09-16-09, 18:30
Fixing Bayonets enhances the warrior mindset. We are trained from the very beginning to use the bayonet as a shock weapon and an expression of your resolve to visit grievous violence against your enemy.

I don't care how tough any of us might be. You put a bayonet on the end of your weapon it scares the shit out of everyone. Friend and foe.
Alpha Sierra
09-16-09, 19:05
"He was alive when it went in – he wasn't alive when it came out – it was that simple."

100% bad ass, ladies and gentlemen.
sixboysdad
09-16-09, 19:12
Fixing Bayonets enhances the warrior mindset. We are trained from the very beginning to use the bayonet as a shock weapon and an expression of your resolve to visit grievous violence against your enemy.


On my Afghanistan deployment, I had an old crusty VietNam vet as a platoon sergeant. Now, bear in mind that I was in a Support Company in an SF Bn, so I saw very little of anything that could be called combat. However, our PS (we called him Flashback Jack) insisted upon issuing us bayonets. We carried M4A2 Carbines, and the M9 Bayonet is darn near as long as the rifle. But we carried them. On one occasion, during one of his "pensive" times, he asked my buddy, "Do you know how to properly insert this into a man?" To this day, that is my motto for enhancing the warrior mindset.
Zhurdan
09-16-09, 23:05
On one occasion, during one of his "pensive" times, he asked my buddy, "Do you know how to properly insert this into a man?"

He should have put on his best Antonio Bandaras voice and said "Yes, the pointy end goes into the other man." - Zorro
Collegefour
09-17-09, 07:18
The guy is from the Isle of MAN....indeed, sir. Indeed.