Myles

Ex RN FAA⚓️🚁🇬🇧 HGV tech 🔧🚛 Cyclist, Angler, Hiker , love the outdoors 🎒🇬🇧⛺️Devon based !!

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Proud to be English.

[Yorkie 'B' 🏴‍☠️ RN VD and Scar..🇬🇧 @RenownVet21]

@Keir_Starmer This veteran has had enough of your shit, Chopper!

[💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ @BigBearF1]

Hoofin effort lads. Epically executed and thinking of the lads that never came home. 💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻🍻.

[Yorkie 'B' 🏴‍☠️ RN VD and Scar..🇬🇧 @RenownVet21]

Having watched several Government talking heads on TV this morning, I am now convinced that, collectively they couldn't run a fucking raffle.

[Myles @Myles1970]

@LordBoatrace Well said pal ⚓️👍

[Gary Holman @GaryGaryholman]

Today we remember Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly OBE RN, the Royal Navy doctor who became one of the most respected medical officers in British military history and the only serviceman from the Falklands War to be decorated by both Britain and Argentina.

Richard Tadeusz “Rick” Jolly was born in Hong Kong in 1946 to Polish parents who had endured Japanese internment during the Second World War.

Educated at Stonyhurst College, he went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, qualifying as a doctor in 1969. After working as a junior doctor, he joined the Royal Navy in 1972, beginning a career that would eventually place him at the centre of one of Britain’s most famous military campaigns.

During his naval service, Jolly served with the Royal Marines, the Fleet Air Arm and in a variety of operational and training appointments. One of his most important pre-war roles was as Medical Officer to 42 Commando Royal Marines, gaining invaluable experience in field medicine and operational deployments.

By 1982 he was serving as the Senior Medical Officer of 3 Commando Brigade, responsible for the medical support of thousands of Royal Marines and soldiers deployed to the South Atlantic.

During the Falklands War, Jolly established and commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay, housed inside a disused refrigeration plant overlooking San Carlos Water. The hospital quickly became known as the “Red and Green Life Machine”, named after the colours of the Royal Marines and Army personnel serving there. Working under constant pressure, often with limited supplies and under the threat of Argentine air attack, Jolly and his team treated more than 1,000 casualties, including around 300 Argentine wounded.

Remarkably, of the 580 British battle casualties who reached Ajax Bay alive, only three later died and none died under Jolly’s direct care. Friend and foe alike received the same treatment, earning the respect of everyone who passed through the hospital.

For his actions during the campaign, Rick Jolly was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Years later, the Argentine government learned just how many of their soldiers had survived because of the work carried out at Ajax Bay.

In 1999, they awarded him the Order of May, one of Argentina’s highest honours. This made him the only veteran of the Falklands War to be officially decorated by both sides of the conflict. When he sought permission from Queen Elizabeth II to wear the Argentine medal, she personally approved the request.

Jolly remained in the Royal Navy until 1996, retiring as a Surgeon Captain after 24 years of service. In retirement he became a passionate advocate for veterans, helping to found the South Atlantic Medal Association and campaigning for greater recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among former servicemen and women. He also wrote several books, including The Red and Green Life Machine, which remains one of the most important first-hand accounts of medical operations during the Falklands War.

Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly died on 13 January 2018 at the age of 71. His legacy endures not only through the hundreds of lives he helped save but through the example he set of professionalism, courage and humanity in war.

In a conflict defined by bravery on land, sea and air, Rick Jolly proved that sometimes the greatest act of service is not taking life but preserving it.

Courtesy of FactSlap

Borrowed from Facebook.

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

@SecWar @SoldiersWhisper They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 ⚓️

[WhiskeyMBE @RoyalNavyVet]

44 years ago today, HMS Coventry sunk in the Falklands Conflict with the loss of 19 lives

They have no grave but the cruel sea,
No flowers lay at their head,
A rusting hulk is their tombstone,
Afast on the ocean bed.

RIP GBNF 🫡

[Myles @Myles1970]

@seatedskydiver Enjoy pal ⚓️🍻

[Myles @Myles1970]

Dartmoor 💦🌧💨😎📸 #hiking #dartmoor #adventure

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

Keir Starmer had better remember what the Falkland Islands cost before he ever considers giving them away.

255 British servicemen and 3 Falkland Islanders.

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

Nightmare neighbour finds out! 🤣

[FalklandsinUK @FalklandsinUK]

On this day in 1982, RAF Vulcan Bombers attacked Stanley Airport in the first mission under Operation Black Buck. 🇫🇰🇬🇧

At almost 6,600 nautical miles, Operation Black Buck was the longest-ranged bombing raid in history at the time.

#Falklands44

[BFBS Radio @BFBSRadioHQ]

Incredible 🇬🇧

The National Anthem at Army vs Navy Rugby 🏉

📍Twickenham

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

Labour just lost the veteran and military vote.

Good luck with asking us all to sign back up. 🫡🇬🇧

Send your own Sons and Daughters!

[Myles @Myles1970]

Spring 🌞😎📸 #lakedistrict #photography

[Myles @Myles1970]

Back in the Lakes 🇬🇧😎🌞📸 #hiking #lakedistrict

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Tears for Fears... a bit older now. Damn it 😬
Everybody Wants to Rule the World

[Myles @Myles1970]

Spring on Dartmoor 😎🌞🌧💨 #hiking

[Jason Ai. Williams @GoingParabolic]

This may be the most majestic thing I’ve ever seen.