Lt Adamson, who is single and comes from the Isle of Man, was moving between two eight man sections when a group of Taliban fighters attempted a flanking attack Photo: CHRIS SAVILLE/APEX British Officer Wins Two Gallantry Awards For Fending Off Taliban Attack With Bayonet -- The Telegraph
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".
The 24-year-old officer, a member of the 5th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, revealed that he shouted "have some of this" before shooting dead a gunman who had just emerged from a maize field.
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My Comment: This is face to face combat, and gives a feel of what some of British soldiers are going through in Afghanistan. I only wish that more American reporters would follow up on such stories with their American soldiers so that readers back home will have a clearer idea on what is happening in the battle zones of Afghanistan.
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The American media only reports negative stories regarding U.S. forces in the Middle East, and only good stories about Islam. Any coalition forces are ignored, unless it's to report that some were killed in an operation. A British war hero has as much of a chance of being mentioned in the American media as the word "Islamofascist."
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