[Torg] [NNWS] P-Rated soldier honored

[Kansas Jim]

British soldier awarded the Military Cross for fighting off 150 Taliban

[That's a One-on-Many of DN+22, must have played for the Critical
Moment!]

A British soldier who almost single-handedly took on 150 Taliban after
he and his 50-man convoy were ambushed in Afghanistan has been awarded
the Military Cross.

Fusilier Damien Hields used his grenade machinegun to destroy seven
Taliban positions before his ambushers realised he was their main
threat. After peppering his vehicle with bullets, they hit the
24-year-old soldier. He had to be dragged off for treatment by his
driver after he tried to continue fighting.

[...]

Hields followed the trail of RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenades coming
towards him and started firing grenades one at a time, trying to home
in. “Then I switched to automatic fire,” he said. A grenade machine gun
has a box with 32 grenade rounds. “I emptied a box onto that position
and you could see all the dust and smoke flying about where they hit.

[A fully automatic grenade launcher, I've had players who would
have loved to gotten their hands on one of those. Their characters
too. :) ]

[After being shot and dragged out of combat by his comrades:]

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.”

[Spent a P-Point to buy down the damage!]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3511901.ece

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