July 24
BBC News Broadcast-Badly injured Pair from 1 Royal Anglian on Road to Recovery
WHEN Private Matt Woollard stepped on a Taliban landmine in Afghanistan, his life was left hanging by a thread. His right foot was blown off, chunks of muscle were stripped from his forearms and his heart stopped three times after he was airlifted to a field hospital. Yet two years later, Woollard, 20, is preparing to return to the searing heat and dust of Helmand to settle what he regards as unfinished business. His lower leg has been replaced by a prosthetic limb and he is now in training to become the first British amputee to go back to the front line as an infantryman. He could be deployed if he passes a combat fitness test. Theres no way this will stop me going back to Afghanistan, Woollard said this weekend. I want to get back into a rifle company and do what I was sent to do in 2007 — take the fight to the Taliban. Despite the severity of his injuries, Woollard, a member of 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, walked without crutches 10 months after the explosion with the help of a carbon-fibre prosthetic limb. Woollards plans to rejoin the fight are fully supported by army chiefs. The army is making sure I attend lessons every day to keep me current on weapons, tactics and so on, he said. Although he has cheated death once, Woollards girlfriend Natasha, with whom he has a 10-month-old daughter, Callie, also backs his ambitions. Tash supports me in what ever I want to do, he said. I want a career in the army and promotion. For that I need to be as fit as any …
even after a decade you Republicains are still spurting your hateful biggoted Rubbish lol ,during the falklands you supported the Argies,Iraq war the insurgents and know the Taliban,anything to get some kind of rise, what makes me laugh is that if anyone tried to build a Mosque on the Falls it would be Squotes like you who would be the first to fire bomb it he he,
Ignor this idiot he’ll go away
But they are there and while they are there i will support them and i cant be fucked with people that moan about soldiers in afgan or iraq its just fuckin lame now and thats the problem with youtube yer missus burns yer toast so fuck it lets go on youtube and bitch about british soldiers.
wdf ye on about? so you support the killing of millions of innocent people fuck i dont know whos worse you or the taliban but i do know is the taliban is winning and will win and hopefully they do
Yes! and the way these young men handle themselves after losing bodyparts and limbs thats what makes them the best.
by walking on landmines and getting owned makes them the best lol?
mmm have you got a chip on your shoulder?
thats why the british have the best soldiers in the world!
well the fags shouldnt be there anyway..killing innocent people..how many limbs have they blowin of children eh?
Good luck to all the british soldiers. If Thairishlad does not like it get out of England
republicans would be the first to bomb it lol? who the fuck is out in afghan shooting and blowing up innocent people? i couldnt give a fuck who builds what where.. and its not to get a “rise” who ever kills british scum has my support anytime.. why would i go away? i only asked a question to someone so wdf is your problem ya fag