Military Members post pics of you in your uniforms. (3 Viewers)

[ndicki]

Good one. I'd have had the thing neutralized rather than chop it up, though. Like I said above, all mine have been - I mean, what am I going to do in France with a working weapon? (Don't answer that, my wife'd get upset!)

But it's nice just to be able to hold one from time to time, strip it, etc. (!!)

 

[mkloby]

how much air support do you want our marines to have!

The more the better! That's a silly comment. Some of the guys here have been emphatically stating that brit forces are very short of helo support, as well as other air assets. If that's true, then obviously the system in place is not working.

 

[ndicki]

Some of the guys here have been emphatically stating that brit forces are very short of helo support, as well as other air assets. If that's true, then obviously the system in place is not working.

Peace is a wonderful thing, isn't it! Never misses - wind down your armed forces to such a point that they are no longer capable of doing the job correctly, and then get into a war.

Someone should tell that a*se Blair - and ALL politicians - that being the best in the world is not going to make up indefinitely for inadequate kit and inadequate numbers. The Yanks, I'm afraid to say, seem to have remembered that better than our lot.

 

[mkloby]

unfortunately politicians do seem to think that the military can be disbanded if it's peacetime - save some more money for an expanded social welfare program!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Our military is feeling the cuts from the draw down after the cold war as well though. Not eneogh troops and funding has been cut drastically until recently.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Someone should tell that a*se Blair - and ALL politicians - that being the best in the world is not going to make up indefinitely for inadequate kit and inadequate numbers. The Yanks, I'm afraid to say, seem to have remembered that better than our lot.

i agree for the most part but then again buddying up to the yanks is anything but a bad move, we get less of the hatred america get but we've got one of the strongest alliances the modern world has ever seen, whilst we generally go on the offensive together if you were to attack Britain, you're almost garanteed to get America involved................

 

[Matt308]

i agree for the most part but then again buddying up to the yanks is anything but a bad move, we get less of the hatred america get but we've got one of the strongest alliances the modern world has ever seen, whilst we generally go on the offensive together if you were to attack Britain, you're almost garanteed to get America involved................

Your d@mn skippy.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

if you mean you now think i love all things american, you can sleep in comfort tonight safe in the knowledge i don't i just think that being the best friend of the world's biggest power's a damn good idea!

 

[Matt308]

So you are an equal opportunity whore which sleeps with whoever holds the biggest gun? You better start learning Chinese.

 

[Hunter368]

 

[mkloby]

if you mean you now think i love all things american, you can sleep in comfort tonight safe in the knowledge i don't i just think that being the best friend of the world's biggest power's a damn good idea!

Lanc - that's been a strong ethos of UK foreign policy for decades!

 

[Matt308]

Lanc insulted me Hunter. My superpower ego is bruised. And I was going to save him from the hypthetical baddies too.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

So you are an equal opportunity whore which sleeps with whoever holds the biggest gun? You better start learning Chinese.

 

[ndicki]

Lanc - that's been a strong ethos of UK foreign policy for decades!

Strikes me it's generally the other way round. Look at Grenada, for example.

 

[mkloby]

Strikes me it's generally the other way round. Look at Grenada, for example.

I think you have a valid point with that too, Ndicki.

To quote Foreign Sec Ernest Bevin - "We find ourselves at times irked at the role of jr partner... nevertheless... the partnership is worth the price." - said of UK's special relationship with the US going back to the days that the Cold War was setting in.

Of course there are deviations from this - take Suez as well. I think by and large the US and Britain do have a very close bond...

Britain was also one of the few European powers that did not seek independence from the West or Americanism throughout the Cold War - which is still evident today - a policy that France, Germany, and Italy attempted - also a major impetus for the EEC (which UK did not seek admission to until later). Major British contributions to Korea are another example - even though at that time Britain had to spend more per capita on defense than even the US was spending.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I finally got a scanner in my home - dug this from out from the bottom of the drawer...

 

[Nonskimmer]

The original Cracker Jack!

Good stuff.

 

[mkloby]

how cute joe

 

[Matt308]

Nice FBJ. Those were the times.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Found another - doing a daily on my plane - note the large quantites of rags! This was in Hawaii, 1998.