Lieutenant James Adamson MC
Even though Comrade Brown & his class warriors are doing their level best to flush once Great Britain into the sewer of mediocrity, we can still produce young men like this...
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. Seconds later and out of ammunition, the lieutenant leapt over a river bank and killed a second insurgent machine-gunner with a single thrust of his bayonet in the man's chest ... In a graphic description of the intense fighting in Helmand, the officer told of the moment killed the second fighter.
"It was a split second decision. I either wasted vital seconds changing the magazine on my rifle or went over the top and did it more quickly with the bayonet. I took the second option. I jumped up over the bank of the river. He was just over the other side, almost touching distance.
We caught each other's eye as I went towards him but by then, for him, it was too late. There was no inner monologue going on in my head I was just reacting in the way that I was trained. He was alive when it went in – he wasn't alive when it came out – it was that simple... one of my men, Corporal Billy Carnegie, reached us, looked at the two dead Taliban on the ground and then saw the blood on my bayonet and said boss what the f*** have you been doing?"
Comments
Huzza!!
Posted by: NZFranko | September 14, 2009 4:05 AM
"....boss what the f*** have you been doing?"
Working.
It gives one hope to know such men are out there. Good on ya. Cheers.
Posted by: Rumbear | September 14, 2009 6:40 AM
GPS guided explosives, UAVs, robots, night vision, internet connected computers, fire and forget missles, and sharp pointy things on the ends of rifles.
Posted by: toad | September 14, 2009 7:09 AM
Once again we have proof of my long held contention:
There are few problems of diplomacy that cannot be sorted by the swift and violent application of Jock, Bayonet and Bagpipe*.
Well done Lieutenant Adamson, by rights a long and illustrious military career would now lie ahead of you. Sadly, under this shower of mental pygmies, I suspect you'll soon be the subject of a politically inspired investigation for breaching Mustafa bin Perforated's Yooman Rights.
*Okay, the bagpipes were probably not present in this instance, but I'll bet the strains of the Adamson clan battle dirge were howling in the good Lieutenant's ears, all the same.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | September 14, 2009 10:12 AM
Fair play to anyone who can slot a raghead with an SA80 bayonet. The rifle is really too short to be much use with the bayonet, but it seems it can be done. The SA80 isn't much use when it comes to butt stroking, again, too short and would fall apart on contact with the average Taliban's rather thick bonce.
Posted by: John K | September 14, 2009 1:35 PM
Hoo Yah!
Perhaps there is still hope for the United Kingdom if it can still produce fine men like this.
Posted by: pdwalker | September 14, 2009 3:36 PM
5th battalion. What Regiment was that prior to the b@stards at the MOD amalgamating the Scottish infantry?
/Well done,Sir!
//and he appears to be such a mild-mannered chap in that photo!
Posted by: Bomber Harris | September 14, 2009 4:25 PM
If this young gent ever makes it to Chicago, dinner and drinks are on me.
2009 and the bayo still proves it worth, when wielded by a competent soldier.
Posted by: Bob K | September 14, 2009 5:54 PM
Nothing like cold steel for dispatching the fuzzy-wuzzies. Bombs, missile etc. are all very well, but a bayonet...
Which reminds me, it's time to sharpen my old M4, while crooning "Soon, soon, my preciousssss..."
Posted by: Kim du Toit | September 14, 2009 8:39 PM
Well done sir!
Posted by: Arthur Clements | September 15, 2009 7:46 PM
@ Bomber: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Posted by: Brian | September 16, 2009 12:44 AM
That makes sense. Mad Mitch would have been proud of him, he knew how to stick it up 'em.
Posted by: John K | September 16, 2009 4:49 PM
Thanks Brian! If memory serves, an NCO of the ASH distinguished himself in Aden by being the first Squaddie since Korea to dispatch an enemy with the bayonet when he put paid to a police mutineer in the Crater.
/ John K - Too bad there was no contemporary counterpart to Lt. Col. Mitch to help save the Regiment from amalgamation this time 'round.
Posted by: B. Harris | September 16, 2009 5:19 PM
Bomber: Thanks for the chance to research this. A soldier from the ASH indeed bayoneted an Arab during a nighttime foot patrol on 22 July (after the Crater had been retaken by 4 July) when the silly gentleman unwisely attempted to borrow said soldier's SLR. As shooting would have injured his fellow Jocks in the narrow confines of the back-alley, health and safety necessitated use of cold steel. Of course, this incident was used to smear the ASH and Lt Col Mitchell with false allegations of brutality. To satisfy the Arabs and Labour politicians, "Mad Mitch" was denied the DSO which his leadership of the extremely professional and restrained ASH deserved. Only one Arab was killed during Operation Stirling (the retaking of the Crater) despite the cowardly murders of 22 British troops by the South Arabian Army and Arab Armed Police who were never brought to account.
Posted by: Brian | September 18, 2009 12:07 AM
Brian - Thanks again. I had the pleasure to bump into some ASH jocks in Germany in the 70's. Slainte.
//too bad 1857 Raj rules were not put into play.
Posted by: B. Harris | September 18, 2009 1:02 AM
Let's roll.
Posted by: user2 | September 18, 2009 1:02 PM
See, violence never solves anything.
Posted by: pacific_waters | September 23, 2009 1:00 AM