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— BRYAN BUDD VC: HE DREW FIRE SO HIS MEN COULD LIVE. Stories of courage from battlefields and beyond.

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BRYAN BUDD VC: HE DREW FIRE SO HIS MEN COULD LIVE. Stories of courage from battlefields and beyond.

The Old Paratrooper Podcast

"HE DREW THE FIRE… SO HIS MEN COULDLIVE" In 2006, in the killing fields of Helmand, one man refused to hesitate. Corporal Bryan Buddof the Parachute Regiment didn’t just survive an ambush—he took control of it.Charging forward under intense enemy fire, he broke the attack, hunted downTaliban positions, and turned…

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