Sunday, January 23, 2011

Salutes All Around

A Victoria Cross for Australia recipient, for gallantry in combat when his unit was pinned down by machine gun fire:

Hoping to draw fire away from his men, Roberts-Smith deliberately showed himself to the enemy and crawled his way to the wall, killing one gunner with a sniper shot and single-handedly overpowering two other squads.

Congratulations to SAS Corporal Roberts-Smith. No technology can replace that kind of soldiering.