He had a bad feeling in the stomach.

There was a or another, there was not, as it should be 31. January 2012, when Jacob Panton as the last task in his broadcast was sent out in Helmand in Afghanistan in the tank with his colleagues.

Jacob Panton was chief petty officer and commander. Just three weeks before he had been shot in the shoulder, and now his group loaned out to the british and the americans in the short time before the Danish group had to return home from the war.

In the evening tells Jacob Panton its terrible story about what happened on that day in January 2012, which ended up changing his life. He does so in a touching documentary on TV2 called ‘The dead soldier’.

Although it was in 2012, Jacob Panton was hit by the fatal shot, went there several years before his story was known by other than him, his nearest and Defense.

My story was tucked away, because it is a bad story for the Defense. So I got no messages from anyone, and I didn’t feel that there were any that would me good, he says.

Although Jacob Panton was struck several times by shot and fragments back in January of 2012, managed he to kill the two men, which at 250 meters distance, had begun to shoot against him. It turned out that one of them was a high-profile sniper, which the americans had wanted for a long time.

Jacob was dead in three minutes

Jacob Panton had been shot in the shoulder, just three weeks before the last trip in January 2012.

Within the team in the tank drove off, warned Jacob Panton his boss that he had a bad feeling about to take off. However, they were sent off anyway.

Suddenly sounded a snap, which indicated that something about the tape on the tank, was about to go in pieces. Jacob Panton jumped out to hammer it in place and see two people approximately 250 metres away.

a Few moments after Jacob was hit by fragments and four shots – in addition to the one he had in the shoulder in advance.

Jacob manages after much effort to get back into the tank. He is close to bleeding to death when he lands on the field hospital. Here he gets cardiac arrest and death in three minutes.

Jacob Panton returned to Denmark and was hospitalized for a year. Rehabilitation has led him to be able to go again, but daily, he lives with the pain. Even today, seven years later.

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– When it goes up for americans, they begin to write about me over there. And suddenly running my story in the media, and the Danish journalists begin to chime me down.

From one day to the other was Jacob panton’s name known throughout the western world, because he was shot by snipers, killed them, even the dead and was gone in three minutes, before he returned to an entirely new life in a hospital bed in the field hospital in Camp Bastion.

But it was too much. I felt that everything would crack, for the people called it a great story. But it is not a great story for me. It is a lortehistorie. I died, and my life changed completely. Therefore clapped I in in two years, says Jacob Panton.

Jacob Panton is a chief petty officer and worked as a kampvognsfører in Afghanistan, before he was shot and died. Photo: TV2

Jacob however found utility in to create the association Veteranskytterne in 2015. It is a fast growing association of veterans and relatives, where Jacob is the president and performs a large lobbying to take better care of soldiers who have been in combat, and their families.

It all took point of departure in, he found out that he could use his story as something useful.

– We have a cooperation with several veterans groups in the UNITED states, and in connection with a julereception in Washington a few years after my experience I got more or less involuntarily to keep a kind of presentation about my story. It dawned on me, that my story might help to bring attention to veterans.

And then I started to collect money and reinforce the here association. It is, therefore, I now tell my story, even though it is hard.

– Why is it hard?

– It feels like peeling a layer of skin each time. My wife is a police officer, and for her, it is also equally hard every time – if not worse. But the veteran-the effort makes it all worth it.

– I am also touched by just to talk about it now. Everything here has been hard physically, and I still go to rehabilitation. Fortunately I have not ptsd, but it is still hard. It has been hard for my family, my marriage and for myself. It is not nice for me to talk about, says Jacob Panton over the phone.

Therefore it has also been a tough process for the whole family to be with in the documentary. But Jacob Panton only have roses to spare for it.

‘The dead soldier’ will be sent on TV2 at 20 in the evening on Thursday.

There are a variety of reconstructions in the documentary. Photo: TV2