Steven Davis 🏇🐎

Double Amputee | Partially sighted | Swindon Town season ticket || Steeplechase race horse owner | Grandfather | Romany |retweet not endorsement| DM never |

[Swindon Supporters Action 🟠🔴 @SwindonSA]

Turn on TV- notice how sparse the crowd is. Crewe comms on my stick- they note how the ground could do with a lick of paint and is looking scruffy.

Morfunis 5yr plan going swimmingly #stfc

[Steven Davis 🏇🐎 @StevenD61651677]

We will remember them

[👑 @Cairnlodge1]

“He was only 17 — but on #MountLongdon, #Private #JasonBurt went into battle with the #ParachuteRegiment 🦅🇬🇧 when many boys his age were still at school.” 🪖

Jason Stuart Burt was born on 28th July 1964 & grew up in #Walthamstow, London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. After leaving school at just 16, he joined the #BritishArmy and became a member of B Company, #3rdBattalion, The Parachute Regiment (#3PARA). He had completed his training less than four months before the #FalklandsWar 🇫🇰 began.

For a teenager who had only recently completed his training, the journey to the #SouthAtlantic was an extraordinary one. 3 PARA sailed for the #Falklands aboard #SSCanberra on 8th April 1982. Jason was one of several 17-year-old soldiers in the battalion. He was also one of the British #Jewish ✡️ soldiers who served during the campaign.

The harsh conditions tested the young paratroopers long before they reached Mount Longdon. During the gruelling marches across the Falklands, Jason developed trench foot. Yet according to the #Airborne Assault Museum's account, he concealed the condition from the battalion medical officer on the eve of the battle and took his place on the start line.

Then came the night of 11–12 June.

The Battle of Mount Longdon would become one of the fiercest actions of the Falklands campaign. British paratroopers 🦅 faced heavily defended #Argentine 🇦🇷 positions on the ridge west of #PortStanley, fighting through darkness, difficult terrain, & intense enemy fire.

During the advance, Jason's platoon corporal, #BrianMilne, stepped on a mine. The planned silent approach had been shattered. Under fire, Jason was among the first to reach Milne and administer first aid.

Later, Jason became involved in the desperate fighting around an Argentine machine-gun position. He was with #Sergeant #IanMcKay's group during an attempt to attack the position. McKay would later be awarded the #VictoriaCross #posthumously for his actions that night. Importantly, the detailed account preserved by the Airborne Assault Museum records that Jason survived that initial assault without being wounded.

The battle continued.

In a subsequent attack involving men from 4 and 5 Platoons, Jason answered Sergeant Des Fuller's order for the group to charge. During the assault, he stumbled, regained his footing, and continued forward. He was then struck by a .50-calibre machine-gun round. At the same time, his friends #NeilGrose and #IanScrivens were also hit.

#JasonBurt was killed in the early hours of 12th June 1982, aged just 17. He was only weeks away from his eighteenth birthday. The battle cost 3 PARA #17men, and Jason was among the youngest.

His story is particularly poignant because of how young he was. He had joined the Army straight from school, trained as a paratrooper, and crossed the world to fight for Britain. There was no long military career behind him, no decades of service to recount — only a remarkably short journey from schoolboy to airborne soldier.

Jason was later buried at #Aldershot #MilitaryCemetery in Hampshire, alongside comrades from the conflict. He was awarded the #SouthAtlantic #Medal with Rosette for his service in the Falklands.🎖️

Today, remembering Jason means remembering not only the soldier he became, but the seventeen-year-old boy who never had the chance to discover the man he might have grown into.

🇬🇧 Forever Remembered — Private Jason Stuart Burt, 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. Killed in action at Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands, on 12 June 1982, aged just 17. A young paratrooper who crossed the Atlantic to serve his country and never came home. His name remains among those who gave everything in the Falklands. 🕊️

📸 Photographs: Private Jason Burt in his 3 PARA uniform, photographs of the Parachute Regiment during the Falklands campaign, and memorial images connected with Jason and his fallen comrades at Mount Longdon and Aldershot Military Cemetery.

#BritishArmy #ukmilitary #Warrior #LestWeForget #UltimateSacrifice

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

As 2 PARA advanced towards Goose Green, they suddenly came under heavy enemy fire.

Chris Waddington recalls what happened next.

[TheParachuteRegiment @TheParachuteReg]

Cpl Bryan Budd VC, KIA on this day back in 2006 whilst 3 PARA were deployed in Sangin DC, Herrick 4.

A warrior of a man and true leader who will never be forgotten.

Ready for anything 🇬🇧
@16AirAssltBCT
@BritishArmy
@VCTrust

#Paras
#VictoriaCross
#Paratrooper

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Clacton (Farage) 10k people on PIP 24% out of work

Boston & Skegness (Tice) 10k on PIP 21% out of work

Ashfield (Anderson) 9k on PIP 20% out of work

Runcorn (Pochin) 9k on PIP 19% out of work

Newark (Jenrick) 6k on PIP 12% out of work

Reform haven't thought this through.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Reform’s plans would leave disabled people without the support they rely on.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

I worked from the age of fourteen and never claimed benefits until I became chronically ill.
I was working ten hour shifts as a welder in full ventilation gear until I collapsed.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, or how few benefits you've claimed.
It can happen to you anytime

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

Strange that they didn't announce this before Thursdays vote. 21% of the population of Clacton receive PIP, one of the highest rates in the country.
One can only assume the Clacton Farage fanatics think they mean someone else.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Goes without saying Reform's plan to axe PIP and the health component of Universal Credit is one of the stupidest, most damaging, and altogether pointlessly cruel policy proposals a political party could make - not least because it'll end up targeting their own voters.

[Ryan Hendry @RyanTalksAutism]

Anyone who is linking PIP to employment, is either completely uninformed as to what Personal Independence Payment is for, or are they are deliberately ignoring facts.

[Steve Shovlar 🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇬🇧 #AFCB 🍒 #PROEU @SteveShovlar]

My daughter who lives in a rural area, receives PIP. She suffers from a learning disability. PIP pays for a very small car through Motability, which enables her to live a life where she has got a job. Take away PIP, takes away car, takes away job.

Never vote ReformUK.

[Jimmy McBride @jimmymcbride1]

This weeks been a tough one on the family, I thought we’d lost my dad but thanks to the NHS along with my sister & niece he’s still alive & kicking, he’s far from out of the woods but he’s still fighting & that’s all we can ask for, we can’t let our NHS go private like in the USA

[Steven Davis 🏇🐎 @StevenD61651677]

#stfc

[Pete O'Rourke @SportsPeteO]

Understand Blackpool have agreed a deal for Middlesbrough defender Finley Munroe on loan. Munroe is having his medical today ahead of joining the Seasiders. #Boro #UTMP #bfc

[Steven Davis 🏇🐎 @StevenD61651677]

#stfc

[Forest Green Rovers @FGRFC_Official]

🏆 With 29% of the vote, Fil Mabete is your FGR Fans POTM!

👏 Great debut Fil, fan favourite straight away.

Runners-up and notable mentions:
Jayden Clarke - 21%
Kyle McAllister - 15%
Josh Osude - 11%
Sean Etaluku - 10%

Outstanding shift from all the lads yesterday!

#WeAreFGR💚

[Forest Green Rovers @FGRFC_Official]

🏆 With 29% of the vote, Fil Mabete is your FGR Fans POTM!

👏 Great debut Fil, fan favourite straight away.

Runners-up and notable mentions:
Jayden Clarke - 21%
Kyle McAllister - 15%
Josh Osude - 11%
Sean Etaluku - 10%

Outstanding shift from all the lads yesterday!

#WeAreFGR💚

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

Greg could have stopped at the Parachute Regiment.

For most soldiers, earning the maroon beret would have been enough. But Greg kept pushing himself. He made it into the Special Forces Support Group, then volunteered for one of the hardest selection processes in the world.

He passed.

That earned him a place in 22 SAS, A Squadron, where he became one of the most respected operators of his generation. Over the years he deployed on multiple tours and took part in missions that, in many cases, will probably never be spoken about publicly.

The people who served with him all seemed to say the same thing.

He was a true gentleman. Quietly professional. Courageous. The sort of man everyone wanted beside them when things went wrong.

To his family, though, he wasn't an elite soldier.

He was simply Greg. A husband, a son, and someone they described as their superhero.

Then, in 2013, tragedy struck thousands of miles from home.

While in Southern California on a joint training exercise, Greg spent an evening with friends before heading back on foot. He was hit by a vehicle in a hit-and-run incident and suffered catastrophic injuries. His wife, Tamsin, flew across the Atlantic to be with him, but four days later Greg passed away.

He was just 31 years old.

The driver was never found.

For the men of A Squadron, and for everyone who knew him, that loss has never really faded. His legacy isn't measured by the missions he completed or the medals he wore. It's remembered in the example he set, the lives he touched, and the respect he earned from those who stood beside him.

Some soldiers are remembered because of the battles they fought.

Others are remembered because of the kind of man they were.

Greg was both.

Lest We Forget.

[Steven Davis 🏇🐎 @StevenD61651677]

@Chazdav13

[Proud to be a Moonraker! @WiltsBornNBred]

Town fans,

Remember, if you're not travelling to Cardiff and/or Northampton, both games are being shown on SkySports+. The Merlin show them!

If you do go and watch in the pub, feel free to buy me a pint 😉
#STFC

[Proud to be a Moonraker! @WiltsBornNBred]

Town fans,

Remember, if you're not travelling to Cardiff and/or Northampton, both games are being shown on SkySports+. The Merlin show them!

If you do go and watch in the pub, feel free to buy me a pint 😉
#STFC