True story : while on active duty as a national guardsman delivering u. s. mail during a postal strike , he secretly gathered information for a times story . Narrowly avoided court-martial but won a national publishers award .
One of the five soldiers killed in afghanistan on tuesday was a hero who had carried a fellow guardsman injured by a bomb more than a mile on his shoulders to safety on a previous tour in the country .
Guardsman williams , accepted that his footwear problems would not prevent him fighting effectively , but said that he was disappointed that he was having to wear iraqi boots .
威廉说这些困难并不影响他英勇作战,唯一使他感到遗憾的是他不得不换上伊拉克士兵的靴子。
Relatives and friends of telford said the 37-year-old , a long-serving guardsman in the grenadiers , had flown out to afghanistan last month for a tour of duty with the royal military police .