SAS soldier ‘never’ saw fake leg as trophy
Luke Costin
A serving SAS soldier admits he drank from a dead Taliban man’s prosthetic leg but says he never saw the item as a trophy.
Giving evidence at the defamation trial of highly decorated special forces veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, the soldier said the leg helped him decompress while on tour.
“It helped me decompress. Let off steam. Bond,” the witness, codenamed Person 14, told the Federal Court on Tuesday.
“(It’s) high tempo life, high pace, you never know when your last day is coming.”
Images of soldiers drinking from the leg at the SAS’s unofficial bar in Afghanistan, the Fat Lady’s Arms, caused controversy when they emerged in 2020.
The leg came from an insurgent shot dead in a compound known as Whiskey 108 in 2009, the court has been told.
If “The SAS’s unofficial bar in Afghanistan, the Fat Lady’s Arms” doesn’t cause you to pause and reread, nothing will.
The US Navy skater’s unofficial bar in Afghanistan was called the “Bottom’s Up Pub and Fannybanger Grill.” The requirements were to be a current escapee from a working party and to drink like a Viking.
Yuck!
I mean, do you know where that’s been?? Gangrene, dead skin, critters and bacteria and viruses of all kinds.
Well at least the alcohol sanatized it. Besides, who wants to live forever?? Huh?? Cold Sore? Nah, oh wait, yeah, that’s just a cold sore baby, not some kind of exotic, desert, 3rd world, Space Herpes. NAHHH!!!” I’m SAS!!!!
Gives a new meaning to the paratrooper’s favorite insult of “dirty, nasty leg” 😀
Don’t give up until you drink from the silver cup.
And ride that highway in the sky.
If they really wanted to drink like a Viking, they would be having their mead from a cup made of the skulls of their enemies. Make that whole beheading thing of the Tally Bans, “turnabout is fair play”.
At least it wasn’t a prosthetic made from the “middle” leg.
“Fannybanger”? I see what you did there. Good one! Had to go all maverick on us and fly right into that danger zone, huh Steve Balm. May get your goose cooked by the Nautically Designated.
“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women!” –Ahnold (paraphrasing Ghengis Khan)
Still hate you.
As long as you remember there’s two “Os” in Goose, Ed.
*giggling* 😛 Check the current DA Form 6. It was my day to be “that guy”!
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Oh, you meant it as a Proper Noun, NOT a descriptive adjective? Got it! 😀
Somebody forget the First Rule of Fight Club? Looks like the First Rule needs a Social Media update: The First Rule of Fight Club is you DON’T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB. Nor do you (a) take souvenir pictures, (b) post to social media or (c) run your mouth about it around people who don’t know.
Digital is forever
Doesn’t rise to this level, but I had an E9 that accumulated several high quality Persian rugs from Camp Victory early in that war. Customs confiscated them on arrival in the US. The aforementioned E9 got a little snooty with the customs officials and was nearly charged with theft. It was a good day.
So he did not buy them like everyone else? Or was it because of their providence? Everyone I knew leaving Baghram had at least one. Knew a certain O-5 that bought at least 12.
They weren’t purchased. They were removed from the Palace.
Should have shipped them back in the maintenance conex as “floor mats”.
Why did he need a leg up if he grabbed it himself to drink from.
SAS are Airborne–they normally wouldn’t be caught dead drinking with Legs…
If you’ve BTDT, no explanation is necessary.
If you’ve never BTDT, no explanation is enough.
Apparently the civvies and occifers that are attempting to put the slam on the SAS troop(s) have never BTDT. Too bad. Those holding court might have turned out to be decent humans and neighbors. But now? Pfft!
“A plague on both your houses!” (not the SAS)
If you’ve BTDT, no explanation is necessary.
If you’ve never BTDT, no explanation is enough.
Absolfkingutely. I will not allow myself, nor my fellow Warriors to be judged by self-righteous jurists.
Show me your scars or STFU.
This tale sounds familiar, but it happened back in 2003. Wonder what happened to that “leg”?
It walked off….
It’s on another leg of it’s journey.
it’s afoot.
Leggin’ it on outta here…
Couldn’t say…
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I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Probably just beating feet.
For those who don’t know their Aussie or Commonwealth heroes, Ben Roberts-Smith is a legit badass. Recipient of the VC and the Medal for Gallantry (equivalent to a Silver Star).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith
What’s the big deal, the dead guy wasn’t going to be using it anymore?
We worry about dumbest shit sometimes…
These are people who behead their enemies, toss gay people off buildings, shoot little girls in the face because they dared to go to school…fuck those guys…kill them, leave them to rot where they die, and forget about them.
When Hack Stone went to Ground Radio Technician Course in 29 Stumps, one of his classmates was in Desert Storm with the tankers. He said one Marine got busted for trying smuggle back an Iraqi arm. Hack asked “He tried to sneak in an AK-47?” Nope, he tried to bring back an Iraqi arm. Probably had plans to take it to his local taxidermist to have it stuffed and mounted.