Yeah, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell was actually a Royal Navy exchange officer seconded to Tomcats, along with Algie 'Wolfman' and Ginger 'Iceman.'

Yeah, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell was actually a Royal Navy exchange officer seconded to Tomcats, along with Algie 'Wolfman' and Ginger 'Iceman.'

My point was more aimed at the contents of the final paragraph. Being that it annoys me when a British prime minister is making grand speeches abroad full of such shite, when his own country needs sorting out. I think he tends to forget that his role is to govern (not rule), Great Britain. To be ...

My point was more aimed at the contents of the final paragraph. Being that it annoys me when a British prime minister is making grand speeches abroad full of such shite, when his own country needs sorting out. I think he tends to forget that his role is to govern (not rule), Great Britain. To be ...

Only one think matters about Blair; the electorate doesn't trust him. Its completely irrelevent what the Americans, marsians etc think about him, he's the prime minister of Great Britain, not the US or Western world as he may like to think. He isn't trusted to run an ice cream van let alone the ...

Only one think matters about Blair; the electorate doesn't trust him. Its completely irrelevent what the Americans, marsians etc think about him, he's the prime minister of Great Britain, not the US or Western world as he may like to think. He isn't trusted to run an ice cream van let alone the ...

Don't really know to be honest. The only way to do that would be inside some sort of exfil pod with parachutes, which sounds far too far fetched to me. There was an exfill pod developed for Harrier, but that was for vertical landing and not supposed to be air dispensed.
Only relaying what the guy ...

Talking of glider troops, once at an airshow when i was being shwon around a Bucaneer, the owner pointed to the bombay and stated that the TA SAS were to be infiltrated behind Soviet lines in bombays of Bucaneers in time of a Eastern invasion of West Germany and Central Europe. Don't know how true ...

Alistair Campbell is off to get a job with Gordon Brown.

The English millitary? Probably 5,000 knights, 15,000 pikemen and 5,000 footsoldiers along with page boys, liveries etc. Nowadays its the British military and has been for a while.

The English millitary? Probably 5,000 knights, 15,000 pikemen and 5,000 footsoldiers along with page boys, liveries etc. Nowadays its the British military and has been for a while.

Use a Bucanneer at 15ft, thats a proper stealth aircraft.

Use a Bucanneer at 15ft, thats a proper stealth aircraft.

I wasn't taught anything about that war at school, i did get pissed off when our school insisted upon celebrating a war we lost to a foreign country on the 4th July. It maybe a source of historical pride to many Americans, but i can't undertsand why people over here celebrate it, i mean why don't we ...

Flight Lieutenant is the equivalent of Army Captain and RN Lieutenant i think, so you need to have a bit of service time before you attain the rank.