Paratrooper

“For the public there is a certain frisson in seeing it [the darker objects],” Janice Murray, the director-general said. “And there is a robust attitude in the army. You learn to deal with things, and people are not fazed by things the ordinary civilian might be.”

Bronco Lane, a paratrooper, donated his frostbitten toes to the National Army Museum after he lost them on the descent from an Army Mountaineering Association expedition to Mount Everest

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