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She stands precisely 5ft tall in her everyday shoes and her smile is disarmingly sweet.
Kate Nesbitt doesn’t immediately fit the image of a fearless military hero, not off the battlefield at least.
But there are probably few people a critically injured soldier would rather meet in the chaos of a desert gunfight than this 21-year old blonde in full flight.Bravery: Kate Nesbitt receives the Military Cross from the Prince of Wales during investitures at Buckingham Palace in London. And the sight of her sprinting through an Afghan war zone under heavy machine gun fire is almost certainly one that Lance Corporal John List will remember for the rest of a life he now owes to her astonishing display of courage
Kate, a medical assistant serving as an Able Seaman with the Royal Navy, raced 70 yards to the stricken soldier’s side as he nearly choked to death from a gunshot wound to the mouth. She cut open a temporary airway and treated him for 45 minutes as rockets whizzed overhead and bullets thudded into the ground nearby.
Yesterday her ‘inspirational’ bravery was rewarded at Buckingham Palace when she became the Navy’s first woman to be invested with the Military Cross. Then, with a few modest words, she underlined the remarkable spirit of loyalty that bonds Britain’s servicemen and women on the front line. ‘I promised my friends and comrades I’d be their medic,’ she said. ‘I promised I’d be there if they ever needed me. They needed me that day - so when the call came, that’s just what I did.’
Kate, from Whitleigh, Plymouth, stepped into the history books as only the second woman to be awarded the MC, one of Britain’s highest gallantry awards, as well as becoming the only MC Wren. Presenting her award, the Prince of Wales bowed to what he called her ‘extraordinary’ heroism.
Her citation read: ‘Under fire and under pressure her commitment and courage were inspirational and made the difference between life and death.’
Right down the street from me. Every town should do this.
Ich verstehen die Nachthexen
Reading the tweets I expected it was more politician BS but the pics show that’s not the case, pretty amazing story too 
Reviving an old, but not dead thread. Heroes never really die do they?
Just learned that Brad Pitt’s character ‘War Daddy’, in the movie Fury was actually real. Wardaddy’s story…
This one was too.
“There were no heroes, no Rambos. We were a team,”
That’s desperately missing today…team.
Very good read, I liked those movies as well. 
Except Rambos do exist but they were European. the White Death took a Mosin then took down several hundred people with it while making snow angels with half his face blown off. Thats literally more Rambo than Stallone could ever be.
and the occasional American.
Well, there’s one of those accounts that made the M16 famous:
My M16 jammed
but he overcame it:
and hit the other with my M16 again and again until he was dead
Right. I almost said something about it too.
Among the wounds he suffered that day was the loss of part of his trigger finger to an enemy grenade. Davis fired his M16 with his pinky.
