Hero Lost

A brief aside from the regular musings of Fried Camel. I ran across this story after I got home from classes and it hit me pretty hard.

Britain Loses 'Legend' in Afghanistan

Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid was legendary for the number of IED's he successfully defused in Afghanistan. As Michael Yon notes, at one time Olaf diffused 1 in every 19 IED's that the British military came upon. The exact number of Coalition and Afghan lives he saved will never be known, but one can safely assume the figure to be in the hundreds.

Olaf was on his last mission when the IED he was trying to disable went off. It killed him instantly. He was due to ship out the next day. Staff Sergeant Schmid leaves behind a wife and a five year old stepson.



Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid (1979-2009).

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