No sarcasm on this one. This is frankly astonishing:
Three Apaches were available for the mission, but the 200mph helicopters have no room inside for passengers. The soldiers made the snap decision to travel on the outside of two of the armour-plated aircraft, with a third helicopter providing covering fire. The men flew right back into the gun battle, landing both inside and outside the enemy fort in the search for L/Cpl Ford. They eventually found and retrieved the body of the section leader who had been killed by enemy fire.
Heroes. They mostly likely had a sense that he had already fallen and they went anyway. No doubt they were driven by hope that he was alive, but also by a refusal to let the primitive savages who killed him mutilate him and drag his body through the streets.
[Via: Ace of Spades HQ]
Previously: This Will Not Be Our Last Bow, Global Jihadists Will Take Any Excuse To Kill Infidels, British Newspaper Discovers That Violent Islamism Is Violent
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