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Sky News (UK) report featuring FLIR footage of Royal Marines riding on Apache Gunships on a mission to rescue a fallen comrade in Afghanistan.

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[MrKerley]

Royal Marines, the finest! RIP lance corporal mathew ford

[110csw]

My original post was a year ago. They had just got a 2.6% pay rise which is an insignificant amount.

I agree medals are honours for heroes but they don't feed the wife and kids or pay the rent. Pay a decent wage to soldiers. Stop calling this war an 'insurgency' just to avoid proper compensation and pensions for the injured and bereaved.

Heroes should be treated as heroes. Not discarded and ignored once the action fades.

[JonniePolyester]

Wow, just been listening the account of this: Ed Macy's memoirs Apache! Amazing to see the real footage. 

[stevethomo]

The bloke who actually got the body wasnt a marine he was a Royal Engineer attatched to the marines. He used to work on the same camp my dad does before he got posted. Capt. Dave Rigg and I think he got the VC for this not 100% sure though.

[j69d]

RIP

[Greatnemo]

now that is really stupid but really the most heroic and coolest thing to do!>!>!

^_^

[burntdowntree]

only till they got back to camp Bastian did they realise he wa dead.

thats a lie,

they saw little heat coming from his body, they thought it was the rising sun heating up his dead body that provided little heat, they had there suspitions before they even sent the guys out on the apachi.

when they got on the ground they found he had no pulse, but still brought him home. oh by the way if anyone wants to read about operation jugroom fort, a book titled, '3 commando brigade' is awesome.

[SabreUnit]

The RM's had to have long wings to ride on.

[GhilliedUp]

Where does it say they got a pay rise? Acts of bravey arn't rewarded with cash, but rather either the George's Cross or some other form of presented honour.

[dvospeed1]

I really like the Lynx. Wish the US had a few in its inventory. Kind of a bummer the UK doesn't have them in the gunship confirgurement anymore.

[P4rtis4n]

we have the Westland Lynx and Gazelle.

Lynx's are faster than Littlebirds albeit slightly larger, though smaller than a blackhawk. However, the time was scarce, and for operational circumstance, the primary available Helicopter was the Apache Longbow, so they used that. Lynx's are also only armed with a door gun for self defence, Littlebirds tend to have secondary gunship ability (lynx is no longer armed with TOW either, the apache is the UK's primary Attack Helicopter now).