[Torg] [NNWS] P-Rated soldier honored

[Phil Dack]

Oh good grief, I so hope my players don't read about grenade
machine guns....


--- Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
> Torg website: http://www.sdc.org/~ksjim/index.html
> 
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