03/18/2021
Special one for the Irish ☘️
Reposted from - Michael O’Leary, Irish Guards
Michael O’Leary AKA MAC-10 Mike was bangin’ with the Irish Guards in France in 1914 after the German Military Industrial Complex went full Rick James Make Your Crush Mine Mike was mentioned numerous times in dispatches for being a certified badass & was promoted to LCpl.
On 30 Jan 1915, O’Leary’s company was about to make Stahlhelms sing like steel plates near Cuinchy, when ze Germans got the drop on ‘em like your Plt Sausage vibe-checking you with weekend duty cause you’re a libo risk. The enemy held a big portion of the line on 1 Feb that passed under a railway embankment, setting them on a 1-way collision course to Mad Mike & the Thunderdome.
The Irish Guards counterattacked the pos at 0400, but the Kaiser’s Kooks were ready & most of the assault party was KIA with all the officers. 2LT Innes was called up to rescue survivors. His orderly was our boy Mad Dog Mike, who was itching to put in work. The Irish reattacked after arty & covering fire. Innes & the team were pinned & took heavy casualties.
O’Leary ran past the assault party & straight up to the MG barricade suppressing the lads He jumped on the embankment & squeezed off 5 headshots; doing to the nest what the English government did to Ireland during the potato famine. 60 yards past the first pos was another. The enemy spotted Mike running up on em like Bill the Butcher with eyes on Irish refugees just trying to get by. They couldn’t lower the gun’s barrel enough to hit him, so Mackzaddy Mike smoked 3 and took the surviving 2 as EPWs
For his actions that day, Michael O’Leary was awarded the VC, as well as a battlefield promotion to Sergeant. He retired from the Army after the war at the rank of 2LT.