SAS Soldier: “Fake Leg Not a Trophy”

| February 9, 2022

SAS soldier ‘never’ saw fake leg as trophy

Luke Costin

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.

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.

Category: Afghanistan

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M48DAT

Yuck!

ChipNASA

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!!!!

Martinjmpr

Gives a new meaning to the paratrooper’s favorite insult of “dirty, nasty leg” 😀

26Limabeans

Don’t give up until you drink from the silver cup.

Anonymous

And ride that highway in the sky.

KoB

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.

Anonymous

“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women!” –Ahnold (paraphrasing Ghengis Khan)

AW1Ed

Still hate you.

Roh-Dog

As long as you remember there’s two “Os” in Goose, Ed.

KoB

*giggling* 😛 Check the current DA Form 6. It was my day to be “that guy”!

KoB

Oh, you meant it as a Proper Noun, NOT a descriptive adjective? Got it! 😀

Martinjmpr

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.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Digital is forever

SFC D

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.

MI Ranger

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.

SFC D

They weren’t purchased. They were removed from the Palace.

MCPO USN

Should have shipped them back in the maintenance conex as “floor mats”.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

Why did he need a leg up if he grabbed it himself to drink from.

Poetrooper

SAS are Airborne–they normally wouldn’t be caught dead drinking with Legs…

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

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.

MI Ranger

This tale sounds familiar, but it happened back in 2003. Wonder what happened to that “leg”?

26Limabeans

It walked off….

jeff LPH 3 63-66

It’s on another leg of it’s journey.

MCPO USN

it’s afoot.

Poetrooper

Leggin’ it on outta here…

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SFC D

I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

M48DAT

Probably just beating feet.

Mason

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

Veritas Omnia Vincit

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.

Hack Stone

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.