Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Veterans

Scottish troops trying to keep the peace in Afghanistan

Musa Qala bazaar

This remains a highly charged war zone. Three days ago, while we were in the district centre - the army camp on the outskirts of Musa Qala - three platoons of D Company of the Argylls came back from a 48-hour patrol to the north of the town, in the course of which they came under heavy fire on three separate occasions. Private David Poderis, 37, showed us tangible evidence of the Taleban's ferocity in the form of two neat bullet-holes in his helmet.

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I'm not promoting this or making a judgement one way or the other. It's just a thought provoking tale.

WHEN Robert Cumming's body arrived at Glasgow Airport from Baghdad, his face was so mutilated his sister Deely was not allowed to see him.
Robert was one of a growing number of private security contractors from Scotland killed in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.....

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Saved by his helmet: soldier’s Afghan escape

Pte David Poderis of Wishaw

A Scots soldier's life was saved by his helmet when it deflected a Taliban bullet during a fierce firefight in Helmand.

Private David Poderis, 37, a TA soldier and lorry driver from Wishaw, was lying on the roof of a compound when he was shot in the head. His helmet absorbed the strike, with Pte Poderis fighting on and only realising the attempt on his life when he returned to camp yesterday morning.

Full Story: the Herald

the difference between life and death is only a whisker

PRIVATE David Poderis was lying flat on the roof of a small brick building when the jolt to his helmet came.

"I felt my head jarring, and the bracket that held my night-sight swung down in front of my face," says the 37-year-old Territorial Army soldier from Wishaw.
"I knew I had been hit but I thought it had ricocheted off."

Full Story: the Scotsman

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