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05-22-23, 11:48 AM | #1 |
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One of the last surviving SAS soldiers who stormed Iran's embassy in London dies
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05-22-23, 03:57 PM | #2 |
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One of the last surviving members, really?
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05-23-23, 06:25 AM | #3 |
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Well it was 43 years ago si the men were in their thirties it is possible I suppose.
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05-23-23, 11:59 PM | #4 | |
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Well thirties is rather old for combat soldiers, maybe not the old Sarge of course but I would have thought the majority of them would have been in their early to mid 20's. That just seemed to me to be a bit soon to be one of the last survivors. Of course having been a 3 year veteran of the US Army myself already when that incident occurred it might be somewhat wishful thinking!
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05-24-23, 05:34 AM | #5 |
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Did a bit 'digging' and found out he was sixty years of age and had been suffering from cancer for a long time,
That would make him twenty years of age during the embassy siege.
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05-25-23, 06:57 AM | #6 |
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Salute!
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05-25-23, 09:03 AM | #7 | |
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That's more like it, but also sad that to know he was one of the last survivors of a pretty young group of men.
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05-25-23, 09:40 AM | #8 |
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True that
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