Marine Lifts 2ton Truck Under Fire

Posted by Christopher Eger Oct 6, 2007

You are in a two ton truck.

A mortar bomb goes off and flips your truck over, trapping your leg so that you cant move.

Here's where it gets fun: you are in Afghanistan still taking incoming mortar fire....and did I mention that your truck was flipped over into a ditch filled with three feet of water?

What do you do? What can you do?

Hope that the Incredible Hulk is there. For Royal Marine Mark Farr that is just what happened. Colour Sergeant Carl 'Tatts' Tatton, of J Company, 42 Commando (made famous as the company that returned to their former barracks at Moody Brook in the Falklands Islands War) was the next best thing. Sergeant Tatton managed to single-handedly life the overturned truck (13 times his body weight) and get his comrade free. It makes sense when you think that Tatton is the unit's PT instructor. I bet he has everyone's full attention from now on.