Well, the last bit you wrote certainly shocked me, it never occured to me, that those holding the two poor girls may be pushed from a liberal stand to a more aggresive stance due to adverse media reporting and freak net postings.

These two girls are really in a very sad position and hopefully there ...

It is up to you which route you choose!

With A levels you should be able to make the (academic) grade for Sandhurst.

On the other hand, being a tradesman will offer better job options when leaving the Army - especially as a tech trade! Fast track promotion and best pay there is.

Whilst Officers ...

He had a paper shop in Hackney...until a person from Pakistan bought it from him for the price of an air fare to south america!

I think that many people do not realise how many people are genuine in wanting to help the rebuild of Iraq. Perhaps it even passes by the terrorists narrow horizon, that someone somewhere does try and make a difference via a cost effective way - volunteers - .

Nonetheless, it does not seem to ...

As, I think, Artist wrote - pace sticks are for measuring the march pace (the sticks can be opened and swivelled with one hand like a compass to measure a foot pace, for this, there are brass attachments on the inside for various pace lengths.

Drill instructors from the Rank of L/Cpl use these for ...

Tessie - you have a point with the aid workers.

That doesn´t stop the terrorists as you well know.

In fact, if I was a terrorist, out to disrupt the organisation of the country I was in, I would aim at the aid workers first. Stop aid, and foreigners, entering, fight "the enemy" and implement my ...

PErhaps he is just being victimised as he converted to Islam 30 odd years ago - or someone in the government dislikes his music!!!

BBC is right!

The Koran is open to misinterpretation. Unlike in the Christian world, where we all have the right to read and to interpret the bible, muslims and muslimas have to look up to an mam for religious guidance and leadership. They aren´t supposed to interpret the Koran themselves opening ...

Might be in the wrong forum - but what the hell, here is as gooda chance as anywhere else... :oops:

Anyone know the above mentioned beer buddies?

Well, Dan was anyway. All three at cododo log in the eighties and early nineties!

Dan D. stole a bus whilst in Canada and drove several hundred miles ...

Anyone here done a course in a different state /country?

Whilst I was serving in the glorious army (well sort of glorious) I had some luck in getting detached to the German Army and did the German para course and whilst there also went to the USofA for 4 months and did the air assault course and ...

American army officers - well, I did an air assault course in Benning in 94 and their officers were right twats.

The only decent and fair officers were the coloured ie black officers.

This actually shocked me as I thought that the US army had a certain "peoples army" feeling. During the 1st Gulf ...

I even found the paralympics to be of a higher standard than the olympics - or has anyone heard of the greeks or hungarians doping???

Tessie - you are right it is a bit insensitive.

But when will there be a right time or a wrong time?

Look at Lebanon, Beirut... They have been taking hostages for how long now? They only stopped taking western hostages when the people from the west stopped entering Beirut, better said the Lebanon ...

I stand by what I have said!

The lure of fast, hard cash is too much for many to resist and I also am in need of money, as being unemployed at present doesn´t really make my situation a bed of roses.

I certainly do sympathise with the families, can´t see anything in my previous post which states ...

Don´t be fooled by books and so called documentaries....

It´s all real and thus different when you get there....