Para war hero: "A rocket-propelled grenade took off my arm."
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2023
- Born and raised in South Africa, Jaco van Gass had a dream - to leave his homeland and serve in the British Army.
But after joining the Parachute Regiment that dream turned into a nightmare when he was hit by a Taliban-fired Rocket Propelled Grenade while on operations in Afghanistan. He lost his left arm above the elbow and suffered significant damage to his left leg too.
With his Army career over, Jaco refused to let his disability define his life and has since become a World class cyclist, winning two gold medals for Great Britain at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2020.
Military charities have played a significant role in Jaco’s recovery - something he explains in this short film.
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wow , what an amazing guy , i wish i had his amount of resilience , well done great effort .
You do my friend 💪✝️
I think we all have it when we are facing the worst things in life. Never doubt the human capability to survive
a HERO in the truest meaning of the word.
Outstanding spirit. Utrinque Paratus mate.
Ive also served in the british military 2000-2015 and served 4 tour of Afghanistan with coldstream guards. I was also born in South Africa. Polokwane to be
hi how are you my name is giancarlo how would you go about applying to join the british army if you are south african?
Thank you for your honorable service! God bless you🙏✝️
Recovery is spectacular and then to become an Olympian, such strength and courage...
Thank you for your service
💞✌️🙏
Serious respect and best wishes Jaco, from old SADF Citizen Force soldier, 1968 Coin-Ops LMG #1 to 2Lt. Platoon Leader to Int. Officer, Grp. 38HQ Mil. Int. 1980. We shall never forget. 😑
Jaco is an Afrikaans boy. Well done bru!
What a great guy and a real inspiration.
if you are inspired, you can always go to ukraine for the same reasons as this unfortunate man, to force yourself to be strong and unfair, to can kill righteous who live in their own country, far from yours.
@@SpaceCowBOY-ko8nl I’ve already got my medals thanks. Tell me, when did you serve?
you are a great lad !
Respect to you, Shelly oak took care of me amazingly well also post tour injuries back and right leg 🦵 hats off to the nhs docs and nurses
God bless you, thank you for your service and sacrifice ♥︎
I already do the Vets Lottery. Not because of a chance to win money ( though it would be nice😂) but to invest in people like you and the rest of the incredible men and women who have been wounded one way or another in service. I read your story and even now you are smiling and laughing. You and all the others who are supported by the vets lottery are the best of the best. Despite your injuries you have carried on and are still smiling . I salute you all and wish you and all the other vets the very best. God Bless You❤
Total respect 👏👏
Never mind
About injury's.I can tell you have the Mindset ❤❤
Wow what courage
Legend! All of them. 💪
Thank you brother, so proud to know that my country folk can rely on staunch commonwealth allie brethren from so far away?..Sir, from the bottom of this English mans heart, and from my ancestors who've gone before, thank you so much for your service, and making me and my kids feel safe and secure knowing that real men and real warriors are prepared to answer the call, STABILIS...
Your a Para, you always are the best 😂😂
What a very childish comment?, the faces dont help either?, grow the fuk up, before you're dragged up?, kicking 'N' screaming wont help neither!!...... 😮😮
A True Warrior 🇬🇧👍
Such a solid chap. Thanks for your service mate.
what a legend imagine your hand blowing off! he was determined and brave never give up. he is also like my relative who had 3! of his fingers blown off from German shrapnel from a bomb and kept on fighting
In America I call him a badass!!
I'd be like "haha mf you hit me and I'm still alive"
Didn't your SGT tell you never try to catch a RPG.
Poor guy… also bad intel…..
Afghanistan, just another Vietnam, bloody shame , when do People learn 😑????
not like they chose to go there you tosser
We need to start doing videos of the Afghans and all the injury they suffered and got whilst defending themselves from us British invaders!
I'm sure there's a few historically correct story's out there of afghans doing the exact same thing?...
@@wor53lg50 you do not need a story out there to know that many of them suffered at our hands also. Go look up the Royal Marine story that summarily executed his POW and as he shot hime he said ‘shuffle of this mortal coil you cunt”. Or the Austrian SAS who has just lost a libel claim for war crimes. He was a VC holder!
@@karmakazi101 the Taliban were Afghans and what true heroes do you refer. Certainly not is British invaders bombing people from above or killing civilians!
@@remrettgorden2566wise up fella.
None of that is correct is it? If you weren't a 15 year old sat at home thinking of ways to be edgy then you'd know Afghanistan isn't and wasn't like the west. It was more akin to the Viking age Britain or Scandinavia or Feudal Japan. They were and are all separate tribes and were killing each other long before we got there. Not to mention there were different terror groups operating and fighting each other. The was one specifically that hated the Taliban and Ak Qaeda by the mountains near Pakistan. This is evident by all the people who tried to escape when Biden pulled everyone. You don't cling on to the side of a plane to escape nice people. At the end of the day they were harbouring terrorists and noncing kids. You're going to have to try very hard to make me feel pity for people who beast kids.. unless that's why you're so passionate about defending them?
Feel bad to what happened to you! What about the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who were killed and wounded by the invading forces coming from America and Neto!! The afghans people are the true victims but at the same time the true heroes
@@karmakazi101 for 20 years they trained the afghans who accepted occupation, not the freedom fighters!! It seems you misunderstood my statement!!!
@@karmakazi101 it seems your brain is twisted towards the invaders and refuses to accept that Afghanistan 🇦🇫 was forcefully invaded by western world. The Taliban are much better for Afghanistan and the people of Afghanistan 🇦🇫. I live in Afghanistan and now I and my family feel much safer. The country is ruled by it’s people and not by a puppet government who is remotely controlled by government of the western world.
In South Africa we call him Yako. Salute Jaco. Regards from an Angolan war veteran ouman. Keep on rocking👍
2:23 no hecking way you guys really used a video from an airsoft milsim to represent a nighttime firefight
On the condition that they did not kill anyone and rape, these people were in fact saved from mortal sin on the judgment day because of obedience and killing others for pleasure or because someone ordered you, so you have to. In other cases, they deserved what they asked for, and everyone who goes that way should get the same, not to die, but to go through life crippled and think about whether they should have followed a different path in life.