{"id":122683,"date":"2022-02-09T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122683"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:59:40","slug":"sas-soldier-fake-leg-not-a-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122683","title":{"rendered":"SAS Soldier: “Fake Leg Not a Trophy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SAS soldier ‘never’ saw fake leg as trophy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Luke Costin<\/em><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It helped me decompress. Let off steam. Bond,” the witness, codenamed Person 14, told the Federal Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“(It’s) high tempo life, high pace, you never know when your last day is coming.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The leg came from an insurgent shot dead in a compound known as Whiskey 108 in 2009, the court has been told.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If “The SAS’s unofficial bar in Afghanistan, the Fat Lady’s Arms” doesn’t cause you to pause and reread, nothing will.<\/p>\n

The US Navy skater’s unofficial bar in Afghanistan was called the “Bottom’s Up Pub and Fannybanger Grill.”\u00a0 The requirements were to be a current escapee from a working party and to drink like a Viking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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