Teenage hero gets bravery medal

A 19-year-old soldier has become one of the youngest servicemen to receive The George Cross.

Gosh makes me so proud well done my son cry

To bad the crap American Army was the one to bomb them 🙁

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3518887.stm

did you just call America's army crap?...

sorry i kinda ment the Americans who bombed the British forces not the whole Army

Now, of course, he deserves a Victoria Cross, but he can't get one, which is a shame, because the Americans don't count as enemies, even though they were bombing the crap out of his unit at the time.

Mistakes happen, of course, it is just the amount of friendly fire US-on-Brit incidents have started to become disturbingly common in war.

indeed have you noticed that us Brits dont seem to make the same mistake with U.S

The reason is the U.S army is all Gun-ho and they all want to shoot at anything that moves including are own troops

Actually, one reason is because there were providing the majority of the air cover, and most 'blue on blue' these days are as a result of faulty air strikes. We do not know if we would be just as bad.

But... yeah, the US does have a reputation for not being as careful as it could be.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Now, of course, he deserves a Victoria Cross, but he can't get one, which is a shame, because the Americans don't count as enemies, even though they were bombing the crap out of his unit at the time.

indeed

Accidents happen guys. its even tougher in Iraq getting good intelligence on where to bomb and where not to bomb due to the location of enemy soldiers/guerillas scattered through out Iraq.

yeah i mean u dont see any other army bombing Friendlies

personaly I don't really care, but he saved a mans life so he deserves a medal

yeah, I agree with fire

consider all the braging the US do about their so extremly sophisticated weapons aided by the sattelites, it must hurt the US army that the truth is a different story.

*in foreign accent* Stupid Americans...

j/k

indeed

Originally posted by KidRock
Accidents happen guys. its even tougher in Iraq getting good intelligence on where to bomb and where not to bomb due to the location of enemy soldiers/guerillas scattered through out Iraq.

Indeed accidents do happen KidRock, but the US army's accidents cost lives and can't just be excused by a simple "Oh, sorry about that but accidents happen" if our army did the same to you, I reckon you would be singing a different tune.