“A hero reservist saved a British Army colonel by jumping in front of him as he was pelted with bullets in Afghanistan, it has emerged,” Eleanor Harding reports for The Daily Mail. “The serviceman, an American who normally works for technology giant Apple, acted as a human shield when the colonel came under fire from a rogue Afghan soldier with an assault rifle.”
“He returned fire with his rifle and pistol, but was shot six times himself as he leapt to defend the senior officer,” Harding reports. “Two of the bullets hit him in one of his legs, while one tore into his shoulder and three rounds were stopped by his bulletproof vest.”
“His amazing act of heroism is believed to have saved the life of the senior British officer, as it is understood he was wearing no body armour,” Harding reports. “The soldier works as a customer service manager at the Apple Campus, the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.”
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“The reservist, who has not been named, used his body as a shield to literally ‘take a bullet’ for the senior British officer,” David Barrett reports for The Telegraph. “Details of the act of heroism were revealed in an American casualty report… The attack by Mohammad Rafiqullah killed Major General Harold Greene, the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.”
Barrett reports, “Maj Gen Greene was the highest ranking US officer to be killed in hostilities since Lt Gen Timothy Joseph Maude was killed by a hijacked airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, on September 11, 2001. A similar ranking officer has not been killed overseas since the Vietnam War.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Hero.
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