When someone leaves the Military after 22 yrs and more, they are in receipt of a pension obviously based on rank and length of service. If that person wishes to they can apply for a War Pension (or whatever the new fandangled name is now) and if successful they can also be in receipt of that pension...

I see that Commandos serving in Afghanistan have had £3,000 worth of promised wages deducted following a "dreadful blunder" by Royal Navy pay people. How is morale now? NCOs are going to lose out on a significant amount of money which B.liar promised. This is another kick in the teeth by t...

Recently 4 of our military personnel were killed on active service in Afghanistan. As were saw on the media news blogs they were flown home soon afterwards. With them on the flight back to Blighty was another soldier who had been killed approx 2 weeks earlier. I wondered why has this man had only no...

Pussies....If I saw someone on my course as a threat or as someone to beat I would want to go hell for leather to try and beat him. Well the Marines and the services generally have got to cater for the changing attitudes of todays society so that the wastage is kept to a minimum. What with the exten...

It's 3 miles in total which consists of the following. 1 & half miles out as a troop, speed march pace which equates to a 10 minute mile pace. Then 1 & half miles back in as fast as you possibly can to the finish/start line. For a fit young bloke with ambitions on joining RM, 9 mins, roughly...

It all very well saying that we/they have signed on the dotted line but as we are all aware and it is such a cheap thing to say that we are there (wherever the latest theatre hotspot is) because the Govt have said that we must go there and defend or play our part. The present Govt are split over the...

And? So? Where does this link go from here? Are you as bored as I am writing this by reading it?

I am at 50% after taking the VA to a Tribunal a few years ago where they increase me from the 40% that they offered me from my medical discharge from the RM's. I have always been aware that in their correspondence to me that they have always stated that I would be on a review every couple of years w...