I initially saw this story run on the BBC News channel, and after doing so; quickly formed the opinion that someone had let off a 'Stink-Bomb'. The young chap who was 'Shot in the neck' appeared with the Guy who gave him medical attention, which in turn allowed him to continue being a participant in the "Firefight" (Really dramatic isn't it).
My point here being that there appears to be no visible scarring on this chaps neck, that would go some way to prove that what is reported to have occurred, has in fact occurred.
The other thing that concerns me is the amount of images and video that is provided in order to give some legitimacy to this story. I mean is it common practice to have a videographer and someone with an 'SLR' camera with every Army unit on active deployment overseas? because if you watch the video that accompanies this story, you can clearly hear the noise of such a still camera, taking numerous images.
If the Videographer and the SLR 'person' were presumably in situ the whole time, then I would safely presume that they would have a lot more footage than what is provided as support to this story.
Shot in the neck, but hero soldier carried on the Taliban firefight: Lance Corporal who battled on for 90 minutes despite injury is among 117 servicemen awarded medals for gallantry in latest operational honours list
- Servicemen and women were honoured at the latest Operational Honours and Awards
- Lance Corporal Simon Moloney was shot in the neck during a dawn raid
- With blood spilling over his throat the machine gunner fought on
- Medic Lance Corporal Wesley Masters patched him up 'saving his life'
- Lance Corporal Moloney said: 'We had to crack on. They were pushing quite hard so it was either maybe die or definitely die'
Shot in neck, with blood spilling over his throat (Looks more like it was applied as opposed to naturally 'spilling out' as you would expect from a bullet entry/exit wound), machine-gunner Simon Moloney knew he had to return to the fight or his comrades would be over-run by the Taliban So, we can safely deduce that 'our Simon the Hero' considers his 'Comrades' fu**ing useless without him?).
So, just minutes after thinking he had been fatally wounded (Ahumm, if he was fatally wounded he wouldn't be thinking anything would he?), he was back in the heat of battle and helping to repel a ferocious attack (After watching the video, it didn't sound too bloody ferocious to me, they were doing all the shooting).
He only quit 90 minutes later after being ordered to by his commanding officer.
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Lance Corporal Simon Moloney, of the Blues and
Royals, fought on despite being shot in the neck during a battle with
the Taliban. Lance Corporal Moloney is pictured (Looking endearingly into his saviours eyes) receiving medical
treatment on the frontline
The soldier was one of 117 servicemen and women who received awards for gallantry
Lance Corporal Moloney and Lance Corporal
Masters were among 12 British soldiers taking part in a dawn raid.
Speaking about the shot, which hurled him from the roof of a building,
Lance Corporal Moloney, said: 'It winded me like I've never been winded (hold on a minute, he's telling us about being winded after he was 'Hurled from the roof, and hit the ground! he seems to be 'traumatised' by being 'winded').
I was thinking, "I've been shot in the neck, it's game over". I figured
I had minutes left'
Lance Corporal Moloney said Lance Corporal
Masters' quick decision to help him (Write him a prescription?)(Look at the picture above) on the battlefield saved him. He
said: 'We're like family. He saved my life' (You listening young impressionable types?, it's just like Call of Duty, they ARE LIKE FAMILY!!!!)
Lance Corporal Moloney (left) was awarded the
Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, and was honoured alongside Corporal Wesley
Masters (right), the medic who saved his life. Corporal Masters, of the
Royal Army Medical Corps, was awarded the Military Cross (and a bar of soap, placed strategically on the shower block floor back at the barracks - they refer to it as 'Raw' games I believe)
Lance Corporal Moloney’s heroism – and that of medic Wesley Masters who patched him up so he could keep fighting – was revealed as the two friends (Hmmm) were awarded medals in the operational honours list, published today.
They are among 117 servicemen and women who received awards for gallantry. Most go to troops who served with 1 Mechanized Brigade in Afghanistan between April and October last year.
The two men were among 12 British soldiers taking part in a pre-dawn raid (pre-dawn raid?, the time on Nurse Betty's watch was about 6:35 by the looks of it, and Sunrise in that part of the world is 06:15, so they must have been there for a while) on the Taliban in their stronghold of Yakshal in Helmand province on July 4 last year.
Lance Corporal Moloney, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, and another machine-gunner were covering a patrol from the roof of a mud-walled compound (Hang on....compounds don't have a bloody roof, they'd be called buildings if they did).
At around 6am the battlefield ‘just erupted’ (Ahh there we go) with as many as 30 insurgents opening fire from all around, he said. Minutes later he was struck by a tracer round (NOT a regular old bullet, a TRACER ROUND!!) which hurled him from the roof (He fell off you mean?, not very well trained in 'cover techniques' is he).
Lance Corporal Moloney, 23, said: ‘It winded me like I’ve never been winded (Yup, you mentioned that earlier, is this story aimed at those with memory problems or is he suffering from PWSD). I was thinking, “I’ve been shot in the neck, it’s game over”. I figured I had minutes left.’ (GAME OVER, wait, no hang on, I respawn to continue the fight!!)
Guardsman Ronan Boyce, if the 1st Battalion
Irish Guards, was Mentioned In Despatches in the latest Operational
Honours and Awards list after he fought off a surprise enemy attack
before going on to uncover several potentially booby-trapped insurgent
weapons caches in Afghanistan (Potentially?...sooo they weren't in fact booby trapped?)
Major Geoffrey Brocklehurst (left) of the Royal
Regiment of Scotland has received the Military Cross after he led a
rifle company in an area dominated by insurgents in Afghanistan. And
Corporal William Mills (right) of the Riffles who also received the
Military Cross
Lance Corporal Jake Foster of The Royal Tank
Regiment who has been Mentioned In Despatches after he risked his life
to pull a colleague (Off) from (Inside) the wreckage of a burning armoured vehicle (Only 'a mention' for the gay model then?)
Sapper James McDermott (left) of 36 Engineer
Regiment who has been Mentioned In Despatches after his selfless action
and quick thinking saved the life of an Afghan soldier (See, I told you 'our lads' were there to help didn't I?). And Captain
Michael Kennedy (right) of HQ 38 Group, The Royal Corps of Engineers who
has received the Queen's Gallantry Medal after risking his life to
defuse a bomb that was within minutes of being detonated by Afghan
insurgents (How would they know that?...prey tell please!! Did the 'Insurgent' leave a bloody note that read "I'll return at 15:45 to detonate this bomb"?)
Corporal William Mills, of 4th Battalion, The
Rifles has been awarded the Military Cross in the latest Operational
Honours and Awards list for his service in Afghanistan (Plenty of 'Photo opportunities' an Afghan isn't there?)
Corporal Mills pictured on a mission, serving in Afghanistan (Although to be fair, this picture could've been taken in Wales during training)
Incredibly, the bullet passed though (Note: though, not through: direct copy of text from MailOnline) his neck behind his windpipe, also missing the arteries to his head (And completely missing his laryngeal prominence, that's 'Adams apple' to me and you).
‘When after a couple of minutes I was not dead and I could still talk I started to get a better feeling,’ he said. ‘We had to crack on. They were pushing quite hard (fnarr) so it was either maybe die or definitely die because they would have over-run us (Definitely, Maybe?).’
Some 300metres away, Lance Corporal Masters and his comrades (Pass the Wodka) were pinned down by Taliban gunmen (fnarr) when they received the radio message telling them: ‘Man down.’(More innuendo!)
'We're like family. He saved my life' (FAMILY YA HEAR?!)
- Lance Corporal Moloney praising Lance Corporal Masters' quick action (fnarr)
The soldier, from Somerset, said he was forced to improvise with field dressings because ‘you don’t normally expect someone to survive a shot to the neck’ (He doesn't normally carry Gauze covered cotton wool then?).
He said: ‘But he [Moloney] said to me, “Do what you need to do, I have to get back in” (Back into the protective shelter of the compound I presume).’
Lance Corporal Moloney said: ‘As soon as Wes came I was completely at ease – I was quite happy then, that I was going to survive and that he had it in the bag.’ (Homo innuendo anyone?-sounds like a line from a bloody Carry on film!)
Despite his throat injury, Lance Corporal Moloney continued shouting critical information (Such as????) to his comrades (Wodka!) which enabled them to win the firefight.
Even when a helicopter arrived to evacuate him (So the Helicopter only recovered him alone then? please do elaborate), he had to be ordered to get aboard rather than staying in the battle (Isn't that what you do in the Armed Forces, await and follow orders?).
He returned to Britain for treatment but was back on the frontline less than a month later. (Awww bless! He's one of ours alright!!pfft)
Lieutenant Alexander Floyd who has been
Mentioned in Despatches after he defended a bridge over a 24-hour period
to allow engineers to clear it of IEDs in Afghanistan (It was under attack by roving Afghan insurgents that camouflage themselves as bovine!)
Lance Corporal Sinead Dodds, with her brother
Josh, who received the Queen's Commendation for Bravery after she gave
life-saving first aid to two injured comrades following a suicide bomb
attack in Afghanistan.
Chief Petty Officer Neil Halsey (left) from the
Royal Navy has received the Queen's Commendation for Bravery and Flight
Lieutenant Charles Lockyear (right) received the Distinguished Flying
Cross at the ceremony.
The RAF's Flight Lieutenant Charles Lockyear
(left) who has received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Master
Aircrew Robert Sunderland (right) was Mention In Despatches
As for Lance Corporal Masters’ quick decision to help him on the battlefield, he said: ‘We’re like family. He saved my life.’ (They're like FAMILY....FAMILY!!!!)
Lance Corporal Moloney, of the Blues and Royals, receives the Conspicuous (Suspicious more like!) Gallantry Cross – the UK’s second-highest award for valour – and Lance Corporal Masters, 25, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, won a Military Cross.
A woman soldier who saved the lives of two colleagues after their vehicle was blown up by a suicide bomb (Bastards those 'Suicide Bombs' they've no remorse at all, much worse than those 'Suicide bombers') received a Queen’s Commendation for Bravery.
Lance Corporal Sinead Dodds, 21, helped the injured driver of the Mastiff and then dragged her wounded commanding officer to safety from the wrecked vehicle and began giving him first aid after the blast in Helmand (WHAT! NO PICTURES?).
OH! ....
AND DID I MENTION THAT THEY ARE LIKE FAMILY?
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