This video is a couple of years old but I would urge you to put asside 45 minutes to look at this, and when you do, do with an open mind. Robert Newman is a VERY bright bloke listen to him.
Hat tip to Rogue Gunner for this article.
Personally, I don’t think they should scrap it. In the correct circumstances it is a useful vehicle. In 2004 in Iraq we eagerly awaited the arrival of these, as until then we had only normal “Wolf” Land Rovers with no protection whatsoever. They were perfect for that short period of time before we stopped patrolling the streets & developed this siege mentality we now have! They were also god for small liaison teams, and were better in urban environments than the US Humvee due to their smaller size.
A commander must use the correct tool for the correct job, but at least he must have the tools in the toolbox!
I cannot help but think that this review is another “quick media win” for the government. Snatch Land Rovers are mentioned in almost all “Our Brave Boys” headlines in the red top papers, and it seems too convenient to just remove it and think the problem will go away.
The bomb that killed Cpl Sarah Bryant was 220 lbs of explosive. It would have destroyed most vehicles, including a ridgeback, or even a mastiff. It is vital that the commander on the ground has a variety of tools at his disposal. In some circumstances it is better for relations with the local populace to order the removal of all armoured vehicles from an area and revert to “friendlier patrolling” techniques. That better relationship sometimes manifests itself in the locals stopping the bombers, and the threat is reduced. This system does work in the right place at the right time.
Bless their little colonial cotton sox!
Apparently every year since 1967 the US military academy at west point has been running a competition named “The Sandhurst MIlitary Skills competition“. I can only presume it’s named after the worlds best military academy!
Well this year a couple of teams from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst went over, and……………………….
Any guesses about the final team standings?? No I though not!
Answers on the link to the competition if you needed to check.. Shame on you!
This is apparently a real passport application letter!!
Don’t you wish that you had written this?
Dear Minister,
I’m in the process of renewing my passport but I am a total loss to understand or believe the hoops I am being asked to jump through.
How is it that Bert Smith of T.V. Rentals Basingstoke has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a satellite dish from them back in 1994, and yet, the Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date?
How come that nice West African immigrant chappy who comes round every Thursday night with his DVD rentals van can tell me every film or video I have had out since he started his business up eleven years ago, yet you still want me to remind you of my last three jobs, two of which were with contractors working for the government?
How come the T.V. detector van can tell if my T.V. is on, what channel I am watching and whether I have paid my licence or not, and yet if I win the government run lottery they have no idea I have won or where I am and will keep the bloody money to themselves if I fail to claim in good time. Do you people do this by hand?
You have my birth date on numerous files you hold on me, including the one with all the income tax forms I’ve filed for the past 30-odd years. It’s on my health insurance card, my driver’s licence, on the last four passports I’ve had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I’ve had to fill out before being allowed off the planes and boats over the last 30
years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done every ten years and the electoral registration forms I have to complete, by law, every time our lords and masters are up for re-election.
Would somebody please take note, once and for all, I was born in Maidenhead on the 4th of March 1957, my mother’s name is Mary, her maiden name was Reynolds, my father’s name is Robert, and I’d be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and the day I die!
I apologise Minister. I’m obviously not myself this morning. But between you and me, I have simply had enough! You mail the application to my house, then you ask me for my address. What is going on? Do you have a gang of Neanderthals working there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don’t want to activate the Fifth Reich for God’s
sake! I just want to go and park my weary backside on a sunny, sandy beach for a
couple of week’s well-earned rest away from all this crap.
Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to back to Salisbury and get another copy of my birth certificate because you lost the last one. AND to the tune of 60 quid! What a racket THAT is!! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the
issuance of a new passport the same day? But nooooo, that’d be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You’d rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some tosser to confirm that it’s really me on the goddamn picture - you know… the one where we’re not allowed to smile in case we look as if we are enjoying the process!
Hey, you know why we can’t smile? ‘Cause we’re totally jacked off!
I served in the armed forces for more than 25 years including over ten years at the Ministry of Defence in London . I have had security clearances which allowed me to sit in the Cabinet Office, five seats away from the Prime Minister while he was being briefed on the first Gulf War and I have been doing volunteer work for the British Red Cross ever since I left the Services. However, I have to get someone ‘important’ to verify who I am — you know, someone like my doctor… who, before he got his medical degree 6 months ago WAS LIVING IN PAKISTAN…
Yours sincerely,
An Irate British Citizen.
James Cleverly has posted this article about african leaders speaking up against Mugabe. Sadly it’s the military strength that’s now needed, and African military organisations are simply jot up to the job.
A few token battalions will be needed from the African union, but the real intelligence & speciality soldiering needs to come from the west.
Imagine that as a headline? Would anyone complain? No? Well MPs (and all public representatives) need to realise that they are no longer valued, and 20-30K seem like too much to pay them let alone £100!
They want to be representative more than the people want them Its the same reason firefighters get paid so little!
The Queen came to Larkhill on Thursday & I was lucky enough to see her.
I was warmed by the number of people from the general public I saw who dressed for the occasion. I have a restored faith in the public of this country.
BBC NEWS | UK | MoD accused of Chinook ‘cock-up’
Anti- free market as it sounds, this little debacle is good evidence of why we need to have an independant arms industry in this country.
Listen here to Edward Leigh’s soundbite on the subject
You can just imagine the Boeing sales reps reply to the MOD when they visited the chinook showroom to get some replacements for the 9 that weren’t working.
“Yes, Mr Limey, I know you want 4 more, but, you see, that the US DoD will be buying 50 a year for the next 30 years. Which kinda makes your offer to buy 4 a little lame!”
“I can find a gap in the production schedule for you in 2020. Would you like the satnav option with that?”
Un-economic as it sounds, if we are going to run with the big dogs (in a military sense) we’ve got to spend a higher percentage of our GDP on defence than they do, not less!
In addition, the original “cock-up” was caused partly by the fact that the procurement team would have been completly made up of RAF staff officers, who we all know are “Utterly utterly useless!”
About time to cancel the experiment of having three forces, and revert back to the much more pragmatic one of having the fly-boys subsumed back within the Navy & Army!!
BBC NEWS | UK | MoD insists Nimrod ’safe to fly’
HHmmm,, now the concerned, but un-biased corroner says that the nimrod is unsafe (and must be grounded immediatly) and the governemt (tight with money ‘cos they’ve spent ten years wasting it on the national health service & youth offending programmes) says that it’s safe.
Whow do we all believe?
If it’s safe why are we buying a new version?
Since when did any government replace something expensive before it was needed? They always wait until it’s too late.
I may have said it before, but some who know me know I spent some hours in Nimrods, and I always had a vague nervous feeling that I was being flown in something older that me!
I went to a very interesting meeting today (which I can’t tell you about)
I learned that the government has made some political decisions about the armed forces (which I can’t tell you about)
These will directly lead to bad thing happening (which I can’t tell you about)
I’m sure they have a plan to deny it all or ignore it or cover it up.
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