{"id":31226,"date":"2023-03-20T00:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/20\/iraq-war-the-helmet-that-saved-a-black-watch-soldiers-life\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T00:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:37:38","slug":"iraq-war-the-helmet-that-saved-a-black-watch-soldiers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=31226","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War: The helmet that saved a Black Watch soldier&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It has been 20 years since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The third generation of his family to serve with the Black Watch, Kevin Stacey was among thousands of British troops deployed to Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He ended up serving three tours of the country, despite being seriously injured by an IED in the city of Basra in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Since leaving the Army, Kevin has pursued his passion for cycling in the Scottish Highlands, helping him come to terms with his experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Cameron Buttle and Morgan Spence<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-65008347?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] It has been 20 years since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq. The third generation of his family to serve with the Black Watch, Kevin Stacey was among &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}