Every once in a while I’m reminded of how excellent British people are. I was reading the news and saw that a group of four Royal Marines were on patrol clearing a compound when the lead Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher activated a trip wire with a live grenade. He threw himself on the grenade using Read more...
![Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, a Royal Marine Reservist, displays the rucksack that absorbed most of the explosion when he dived on a live grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan [Picture: PO (Phot) Terry Seward] Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, a Royal Marine Reservist, displays the rucksack that absorbed most of the explosion when he dived on a live grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan [Picture: PO (Phot) Terry Seward]](http://www.ryanpaul.ca/wp-content/uploads/lcpl-matthew-croucher-150x150.jpg)

