Digger Reacts: Willia Apiata NZ SAS Victoria cross

I watch a small documentary about The very humble Willie Apiata and how he won the Victoria cross, but also the kind of person he is.
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[@fergusporteous-gregory2557]

Meet Willie while i was an ATC cadet. He was an absolutely nice bloke

[@Obi_Wil_Kenobi]

Good video lad

[@Daniel-uo8um]

Great video brother. Willie is a legend! Would be interested on a video of your own military tours/stories/medals if you'd be keen to share.

[@diggergaming7174]

Happy too, just would take aittle longer to out it together.. but I am doing a chanell update video so maybe youl see that in their =p

[@Daniel-uo8um]

@@diggergaming7174 Awesome! Will keep an eye out.

[@DarthPudden]

Great vid. 👍

[@diggergaming7174]

thanks!

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Chur brother. Cool video.

[@governorriffraff7601]

Love the shirt. Very cool design.

[@diggergaming7174]

Thanks!

[@diggergaming7174]

Apologies for the audio at the start!

[@amandstunts]

look up Sir Charles Upham

[@LadyOaksNZ]

Ngati Tumatauenga New Zealand 🇳🇿 Haaaaard!

[@governorriffraff7601]

Proud as it must be for him and his family those alongside him. Sometimes people don't want to receive high profile award. It's a pain on the ass. People know who you are and you're expected to condust yourself right at all times in the public eye. This is just my point of view I'm an average Joe with a 9-5 day job. Even Celebrities getting hounded I don't want something like that in my life.

[@diggergaming7174]

Yeh, well the Australians VC recipients from Afghanistan all had the choice if they accepted it or not, I geus they would have had some pressure put on them to take it, but all the books I've read about Mark Donaldson VC, Ben Robert Smith VC, MG, both of the SASar,Daniel keirghan V¤-6 RAR and Cameron Baird VC (posthumous) MG 2nd commando regiment (his family) all decoded to tale the award for their slain mates and for the unit and the units history... Nd due to protected identity status it would mean that these guys would have to stop being operators and take more of a desk job and be used as a bit of propaganda for lack of better words .. I know mark Donaldson accepted lf he could continue to deploy as an oppo

[@governorriffraff7601]

@@diggergaming7174 Make some great points here. It must be weird to recieve an award for time in combat. After knowing friends alongside you equally heroic and dedicated that maybe didn't get any recognition. Cheers for the vids and I'm keen to read some of those books. ANZAC hard.

[@grouse9739]

No one “wins” a VC

[@Spud500]

weapons, Sig P226, MP5 AND M4 Carbine

[@diggergaming7174]

What model m4? This will test ya

[@craigmactak1839]

@@diggergaming7174 Colt or Bushmaster

[@diggergaming7174]

@@craigmactak1839 not sure what brand but we run the m4 block 2 with an elcan 1/4 sight, that's for Australia tho

[@craigmactak1839]

@@diggergaming7174 Bushmaster in the 90s. Colt became available in 2000. Block 1. Sights were any X4 you wanted (or available). All but gone now since the LMT Mars L became available (2015). Then 2017 /18 for the rest of the NZDF

[@gavindoran5145]

Your some man to stop a video

[@pita3908]

he was awards the victoria cross, he didnt win it..

[@diggergaming7174]

It was a slip of the tougne on one of my first videos I had made, I know, and I hold him in high regard hence why I made the video about him....

[@anzac08]

Your sound is too low-! Cant hardly hear 👎