Complete idiot or hero ? Lost 3 limbs - wants to rejoin army ?

SlabMurphy

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this guy has got to be the most stupidest idiot I've ever come across. He lost his two legs and an arm in Afghanistan but now wants to go back and serve as a snipper :rolleyes:

I know us guys can be so stupid with machoism, but this fella takes the biscuit for me " TOM NEATHWAY's last tour of duty in Kajaki was cut short by a blast that felt, he said, like "being hit by a hard rugby tackle". :rolleyes: What do you think ?

Triple amputee wants to return to Aghanistan

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7044125.ece

MaybeLogic

No harm there. He just wants to lend a hand.

Wazdakka

His life must be hell.
What else has he got to live for?

I'd probably want to do the same thing.

forbairt

a famous quote springs to mind ...

It's just a flesh wound

shqipshume

Serious issues

Dj Stiggie

SlabMurphy wrote: »

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this guy has got to be the most stupidest idiot I've ever come across. He lost his two legs and an arm in Afghanistan but now wants to go back and serve as a snipper :rolleyes:

A snipper you say? As long as he's just cutting things and not actually shooting anyone, what's the harm?

Fratton Fred

Raising this on After Hours, by a guy calling himself Slab Murphy says more about the OP than it does the soldier tbh.

congo_90

what use is he? unless they fire him out the tank gun if they run outta artillery?

ScumLord

It's an absolute disgraced injured soldiers like him aren't turned into cyborgs on their return.

Abelloid

SlabMurphy wrote: »

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this guy has got to be the most stupidest idiot I've ever come across. He lost his two legs and an arm in Afghanistan but now wants to go back and serve as a snipper :rolleyes:

I don't think he's a complete idiot...

MaybeLogic

congo_90 wrote: »

what use is he?

Good point.
He'll probably just be arseing around most of the time.

shqipshume

In fairness who is going to hire him.When someone with all limbs cant get a job here.

WindSock

'Wants to rejoin army'

I think you read it wrong OP. He doesn't want to go to Afghanastan, he just wants his limb back.

jd007

SlabMurphy wrote: »

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this guy has got to be the most stupidest idiot I've ever come across. He lost his two legs and an arm in Afghanistan but now wants to go back and serve as a snipper :rolleyes:

Not as stupid as saying the "most stupidest". :pac:

Nemanja91

He may have wanted to do nothing else but join the Army since he was young and there is nothing stopping him, people should look up to him. I doubt he could become a sniper though cause he wouldn't be mobile enough but maybe he could get another job in communications. It may also be the adrenaline.

bazmaiden

Nothing to live for, fear of normality and the thought of being an invalid within the normal society has led him to believe that at least in war he may serve a purpose

Saadyst

He's already lost 3 limbs, didn't we miss the boat on judging if he is an idiot or not?

Zombienosh

WindSock wrote: »

'Wants to rejoin army'

I think you read it wrong OP. He doesn't want to go to Afghanastan, he just wants his limb back.

haha

he wants to rejoin his army and his two leggy's

Wossack

I'll go out on a limb here, and say he doesnt have a leg to stand on

partyguinness

Living at home must be really wrecking his head....

seanybiker

He is a dope, shouldnt have been over there in the first place. May aswell just stay at home and ....... Em, crap cant think of anything for him to do. Rent himself out as a paper weight or something.

Kasabian

He wants to complete the set and be nicknamed "pillow".

ejmaztec

He could move to Limbwreck, if he wants some better quality danger.

partyguinness

It reminds me of this sketch....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

seanybiker

i suppose you gotta hand it to him. He doesnt want to arse about at home, he just wants to leg it back to duty. People like him are in short supply. He should stand tall and proud for over coming his hand icap.
He does deserve a slight pat on the back.

flowersagogo

well he'd have a lot less to lose than some of them out there...

ejmaztec

seanybiker wrote: »

i suppose you gotta hand it to him. He doesnt want to arse about at home, he just wants to leg it back to duty. People like him are in short supply. He should stand tall and proud for over coming his hand icap.
He does deserve a slight pat on the back.

If he gets back there, he'll be a pushover.

seanybiker

ejmaztec wrote: »

If he gets back there, he'll be a pushover.

put some sand in his pants and he will bob back up again.

recylingbin

MaybeLogic wrote: »

No harm there. He just wants to lend a hand.

awesome.

Being serious for a second, anyone else singing Cletus Clark to themselves now?

It wasn't me!

It didn't make a whole lot of sense until I read he was from 2 Para. Then it all became clear.

Mona Lott

He could go on tour with Def Leopard as a spare drummer, I'm sure he'd find it armless

If he were a she, he could change his name by deed poll to Noleen

Biggins

Lets be honest - he should stay at home, watch TV with this peace loving guy - he'd be a lot happier and safer!

Guy:Incognito

SlabMurphy wrote: »

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this guy has got to be the most stupidest idiot I've ever come across. He lost his two legs and an arm in Afghanistan but now wants to go back and serve as a snipper :rolleyes:

Ah irony.


EDIT. Boo Jd007 got there first.

flowersagogo

Biggins wrote: »

Lets be honest - he should stay at home, watch TV with this peace loving guy - he'd be a lot happier and safer!

looks like the wedding present pile at an afghan wedding...

skelliser

I watched a documentary a few months ago about guys like him. Thanks to improvements in trauma care lots of guys like him are now surviving who would have otherwise died from there injuries.
The documentary was very hard to watch tho, young fit men reduced to this. But the majority pulled thru and were walking again within 6/8 weeks! They have made serious advancements in prostetics almost to the stage where it would be hard to notice that some of them had no legs.

Regardless of the war and the politics, i say fair play to him! You would need to have some level of mental fortitude to go thru what he has gone thru and come out the other end with the attitude he has!

Good luck to him!

flowersagogo

i wonder will he have a hand in picking what unit he goes back to...

Saibh

flowersagogo wrote: »

i wonder will he have a hand in picking what unit he goes back to...

He could go out on a limb and ask...

flowersagogo

i'd recomend under cover ops.,cos he looks like an afghan sheep farmer now. no insult to afghan sheep farmers intended.

Blazer

Fair fúcks to him....
He could stay at home on a disability pension and no one would begrudge him OR he can go back out there and do his job.
I'd love to see all the people calling him a dope on here and how they'd react if they lost 3 limbs..
prob screaming for "mammy mammy" and planning to spend the rest of their lives on welfare slowly losing all their dignity and self respect.:rolleyes:
At least this guy has it.. I hope he gets back there..

flowersagogo

yea..poor sod. i suppose until assisted suicide is legalised over there its the best way out..

the_syco

The lad has my respect. Given the choice between spending his remaining years (and at 26, that's a lot of years) on disability, or going back, he chooses to go back. As he has said: it's a mindset. His arm and legs got blown away, but he can still go back to fight another day. Most people who get caught by an IED die, but this dude gets out of his bed, and works to get back up to military standard.

friendface

JustinOval wrote: »

I don't think he's a complete idiot...

I see what you did there

Fizman

I'm determined to go back to one of the static observation posts

Not exactly setting his sights too high in fairness, is he?

Wossack

better then putting him on remote control tracks and using him as a bomb defusal robot I guess

SlabMurphy

It wasn't me! wrote: »

It didn't make a whole lot of sense until I read he was from 2 Para. Then it all became clear.

Yeah, it makes it quite clear alright, he's a macho numbskull. Just the type that join the Parachute regiment, Jeremy Kyle show chavs.

the_syco wrote: »

The lad has my respect. Given the choice between spending his remaining years (and at 26, that's a lot of years) on disability, or going back, he chooses to go back. As he has said: it's a mindset. His arm and legs got blown away, but he can still go back to fight another day. Most people who get caught by an IED die, but this dude gets out of his bed, and works to get back up to military standard.

I mean suppose you heard that some fellow in the Taliban lost 3 limbs but still wanted to volunteer to fight for the Taliban. The very same people who are priasing this British soldier would be the very ones denouncing the lunatic who after losing 3 limbs would want to rejoin the Taliban :rolleyes:

ejmaztec

SlabMurphy wrote: »

I mean suppose you heard that some fellow in the Taliban lost 3 limbs but still wanted to volunteer to fight for the Taliban. The very same people who are priasing this British soldier would be the very ones denouncing the lunatic who after losing 3 limbs would want to rejoin the Taliban :rolleyes:

He'd have to have lost 4 limbs and his head to want to do that.

citizen_p

dont mind him wanting to go back....but hed just be a burden on other men already there....ffs they would have to do everything for him

bazmaiden

Mousey- wrote: »

dont mind him wanting to go back....but hed just be a burden on other men already there....ffs they would have to do everything for him

I'm sure he could test for mines

It wasn't me!

SlabMurphy wrote: »

Yeah, it makes it quite clear alright, he's a macho numbskull. Just the type that join the Parachute regiment, Jeremy Kyle show chavs.



I mean suppose you heard that some fellow in the Taliban lost 3 limbs but still wanted to volunteer to fight for the Taliban. The very same people who are priasing this British soldier would be the very ones denouncing the lunatic who after losing 3 limbs would want to rejoin the Taliban :rolleyes:

Yeah, a will to survive and to get back to his vocation, what a loser. :rolleyes: The Parachute Regiment is a superb outfit. One of the finest fighting units on the planet. They're quite, quite mad, but that tends to come with the job. Takes hard types to make it in the Paras.

You're also quite mistaken in the reasons you perceive for people's respect. It wouldn't be about "Oh, mad bastard, losing three limbs and rejoining the Taliban." Not many people would support his involvement with the Taliban in the first place, while they'd be far more inclined to support those fighting for the British Army out there, and this guy has the courage to go back to what is popularly believed to be the "right" side after what's happened to him. Conversely, Taliban leaders would make the same point about one of their own who chose to go back to fighting having suffered severe injuries, but wouldn't exactly laud this guy. It's about what side you align yourself with.

ejmaztec

bazmaiden wrote: »

I'm sure he could test for mines

Well, one mine anyway.

Tricked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4