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Originally Posted by sprjenkins
Its pretty hard to win one without dying or getting badly injured and fighting on, running through enemy fire and dragging a bloke to safety doesn't really cut it for the VC.
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Running across 80m of rocky ground, carrying a wounded man whilst under accurate heavy machine gun fire, you don't get much braver than that. Even WO2 Keith Payne thought he had been killed when he read the citation. Keith was stoked to find out "we have a live one".
As has been said, VC citations never give a good feel for what really happened and the magnitude of the action. Just read some of the citations of the other 96 aussies that have been awarded them.
This is enormous, still alive and still in service, the Army now has a new mascot. I bet he is now the only man in the unit that the CO of SASR will call sir. Pity his service in SASR will come to an end as he is now too well known and too easily identified. Having said that I am sure he will now get the posting of his choice if he remains in service.