Posts Tagged ‘British Army’

It’s A Grunt Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee. From beyond the grave, I f*** with thee…

Dress Greens replaced by green dress.

Dress Greens replaced by green dress.

IT WAS a pact that only a true friend would keep.

Before one of them was sent to fight in Afghanistan for the British Army, they made a deal: If one of them died, the other had to wear a dress to the funeral.

So when Barry Delaney turned up to the graveside funeral of best friend Private Kevin Elliott, he did so wearing a tight fluorescent dress, The Times reports.

The green dress was matched with equally bright pink leg warmers and black hiking boots.

And the best part is that nobody had the stones to even try to make fun of this guy either on the way to or from the funeral. It takes a man to keep a promise to a dead comrade… it takes a real man to keep that promise when it involves something like this. I would ask some of my old combat buddies to do the same for me but I’m sure a few of them will probably show up in a dress anyway so it’s a moot point.

H/T to VT Woody… I’m sure that you would look great in a daring backless.

Two Long Shots, Two Short Lives

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Notice I didn’t write “too short”? That’s because the lives that got shortened, well, it couldn’t have happened to two nicer guys. It would appear tht the British Army in Afghanistan has a couple of guys that have blatentley stolen the name of this blog and have actually turned it into an actual job title with skills that they’ve honed to the point of ridiculousness. Mad skills.

But Cpl Reynolds (3 Scots, The Black Watch), of Dalgety Bay, in Fife, together with his spotter Lance Corporal David Hatton, worked out different factors such as wind speed and the trajectory of the bullet to hit the target. Musa, who was more than 1,500 metres away (the record for Afghanistan), was taken out with a single shot to the chest.

Cpl Reynolds, who has killed 32 Taliban fighters, said: “I was quite proud of that shot. It is the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan. I am going to use that fact as a chat-up line in the pub when I get back home.”

32 Kills and 1,500 yard chest shot? Not bad. Not bad at all. But there’s got to be something more spectacular out there, right? Right…

Sergeant Daniel Buist, (3 Scots… again) of Arbroath, Angus, hit the insurgent hiding in a two-feet wide “murder hole” dug out of a wall.

The 34-year-old fired his Javelin launcher – only used in the “most desperate of situations” – to take out the sniper after seeing him shoot patrols.

Incredibly, his aim was so accurate he hit the enemy fighter without damaging the compound wall.

Without hitting the wall. That’s like shooting a Heineken mini-keg through a car window at 600 mph from a block away without scratching the trim. Sweeeet.

These two guys can cash in their “free beer” chits with me if they ever run into me. They distribute head shots to bad guys, I distribute whiskey shots to them.

Big H/T to VT Wood… our very own AT-4 Sniper

ULTIMATE WAR PR0N

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Okay, watching bad guys get zapped on IR films from helicopter gunships and AC-135s is all well and good… but you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen the “Infantry Helmet Cam” in operation during a firefight in Afghanistan. These are Brits in contact somewhere in A-stan…

Yeah, like that. If you’ve never been in the Infantry, you’ve now gotten a taste of it by proxy.

Awesome.