alexs_law
16-08-2009, 01:07 PM
This is my first post I hope I have done it right.
I found this article I thought it was worth a looksie. What I dont get about it is why they would print the name of the family not to mention the immoral tone of the piece. People feel free to post your feelings to the "news site" concerned....
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/trowbridgenews/4545917.Trowbridge_family___s_pride_for_hero/
A Trowbridge woman has spoken of her pride after her soldier husband killed a Taliban warlord during a gunfight in Afghanistan.
Corporal Christopher Reynolds, of 3 Scots, known as the Black Watch regiment, who trained in Warminster, shot the top-level Taliban commander,Musa, from a distance of 1,853 metres last week.
His wife Becca Reynolds, 29, of Trowbridge, who is the mother of his three-year-old son Joshua, is estranged from her husband but said she and her family were so proud of their real-life hero.
She said: “I was ecstatic when I found out what he had done. I thought it was fantastic because not only was it him that did it, but also for the Black Watch because they received a lot of bad press when they were based in Warminster.
“He said he keeps on going on about it and everyone over there is telling him to shut up.”
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/trowbridgenews/4545917.Trowbridge_family___s_pride_for_hero/
Cpl Reynolds, 25, of Dalgety Bay in Fife, achieved the longest-range kill recorded in Afghanistan by waiting on a shop roof for three days before taking out the Taliban commander, who was responsible for co-ordinating numerous attacks against British and US soldiers.
Although the couple separated a year ago, Mrs Reynolds insists they are still good friends and chat regularly.
“He is out on patrol at the moment but I speak to him about once a week,” she said.
“This is his first time in Afghanistan. He has been there since March and has been in Iraq before as well.
“He has got his head screwed on and really takes his job seriously. He loves it.”
The couple met in February 2005 in Trowbridge at a friend’s party while Cpl Reynolds was training in Warminster.
They married that September and moved to Northern Ireland in January 2006 when the Black Watch regiment moved out of Warminster.
After a year and a half they moved to Inverness.
Speaking to Scottish national newspaper the Daily Record Cpl Reynolds, who is a sniper and has served in the Army for six years, said: “We did all the calculations for range, windspeed and all that. I have to admit that the first round landed next to him. We were so far away that he didn’t even realise that he was being shot at.
“We changed our aim and when I took into account different factors like the trajectory of the bullet, my gun scope was actually aiming at the top of a doorway. I fired and the bullet went off, coming down and hitting him in the chest.”
Notice she said "he has got his head screwed on" I thought most peoples gullivers were connected by bones muscles blood vessels etc :)
Shocking aint it.
I found this article I thought it was worth a looksie. What I dont get about it is why they would print the name of the family not to mention the immoral tone of the piece. People feel free to post your feelings to the "news site" concerned....
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/trowbridgenews/4545917.Trowbridge_family___s_pride_for_hero/
A Trowbridge woman has spoken of her pride after her soldier husband killed a Taliban warlord during a gunfight in Afghanistan.
Corporal Christopher Reynolds, of 3 Scots, known as the Black Watch regiment, who trained in Warminster, shot the top-level Taliban commander,Musa, from a distance of 1,853 metres last week.
His wife Becca Reynolds, 29, of Trowbridge, who is the mother of his three-year-old son Joshua, is estranged from her husband but said she and her family were so proud of their real-life hero.
She said: “I was ecstatic when I found out what he had done. I thought it was fantastic because not only was it him that did it, but also for the Black Watch because they received a lot of bad press when they were based in Warminster.
“He said he keeps on going on about it and everyone over there is telling him to shut up.”
http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/trowbridgenews/4545917.Trowbridge_family___s_pride_for_hero/
Cpl Reynolds, 25, of Dalgety Bay in Fife, achieved the longest-range kill recorded in Afghanistan by waiting on a shop roof for three days before taking out the Taliban commander, who was responsible for co-ordinating numerous attacks against British and US soldiers.
Although the couple separated a year ago, Mrs Reynolds insists they are still good friends and chat regularly.
“He is out on patrol at the moment but I speak to him about once a week,” she said.
“This is his first time in Afghanistan. He has been there since March and has been in Iraq before as well.
“He has got his head screwed on and really takes his job seriously. He loves it.”
The couple met in February 2005 in Trowbridge at a friend’s party while Cpl Reynolds was training in Warminster.
They married that September and moved to Northern Ireland in January 2006 when the Black Watch regiment moved out of Warminster.
After a year and a half they moved to Inverness.
Speaking to Scottish national newspaper the Daily Record Cpl Reynolds, who is a sniper and has served in the Army for six years, said: “We did all the calculations for range, windspeed and all that. I have to admit that the first round landed next to him. We were so far away that he didn’t even realise that he was being shot at.
“We changed our aim and when I took into account different factors like the trajectory of the bullet, my gun scope was actually aiming at the top of a doorway. I fired and the bullet went off, coming down and hitting him in the chest.”
Notice she said "he has got his head screwed on" I thought most peoples gullivers were connected by bones muscles blood vessels etc :)
Shocking aint it.