Michael’s Dispatches
Great Britain Loses one of its Finest
03 November 2009
British soldiers at war are an incredible group. Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions. An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed.
To see the article in the BBC was deeply saddening: Soldier Killed While Defusing 65th Bomb.
On a side note, the British soldiers are conservative. Though this is not very important, it’s difficult to imagine that Olaf had only destroyed 64 bombs before being killed. Just on this single mission, during which all these photos were taken, and during the surrounding few days, his crew must have destroyed several dozen bombs. You had to be there. By the time the mission in these photos happened, the crew was very experienced.
[Click on the photos to enlarge them.]
See also FoxNews.com’s ‘Death of a Legend’