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Originally posted by lordinajamjar
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On IMO IDF is Israeli Defence Forces -
why should they get itOriginally posted by DeV View Post
why cant we be the irish Defence Forces on here
on Military .ie we are styled the IDF
Dev if someone asked you what organisation you belonged to what would you answer
the RDF of the PDF of the ....
why dont we in future just style ourselves as the IDFThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
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I'd say of the Defence Forces (DF), it is generally recognised that in Ireland the DF is referred to as the DF.
One of many examples where hedge refers to IDF (Israeli):
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Originally posted by DeV View Post
Am I not allowed change my opinion
and evidently from the amount of people referring to us as the IDF both at home and abroad
why shouldnt we use it
have a look at this rather archaric site
even they agree with me
or me with themThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Comment
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I know it is highly ignorant of me to imagine that everyone on this board would understand that I meant IDF in this context to mean the Irish Defence Forces.Originally posted by DeV View Post
I would have preferred to use IA but I didn't want anyone to think I possibly meant the Iranian Army or Iraqi Army or Indian or Italian or Indonesian armies.
IRA would be a good one but it appears that this acronym too is already taken.
So in future I'll just use ARIDF - Anal Retentive Irish Defence Force and just pray everyone knows what I really mean.
Lads we really have an identity crisis going on here. How about RIDF - Real Irish Defence Forces?Last edited by Guest; 21 May 2007, 18:54.
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good suggestion but unfortunately some terorrists have already used something simalar.Originally posted by lordinajamjar View Post
How about Continutiy IDF, oh wait, thats gone too, dam it.courage, endurance, mateship and sacrificeComment
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I go for IDFThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Comment
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If you were sitting in a checkpoint in Tibnin, and you got a message to say IDF Armour was on the way down to you, would you :
(a):Put on the kettle, they'll want a cuppa.
(b):Request BMR?
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.Comment
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Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
1- you rarely sit on a check point
2- if the yids hit tibnin, theres feck all you can do
3- there is codewords and nicknames to cover such eventualities
4- the most ridicolous thing ever- every one knows the BMR are the laziest shower of sun worshippers ever
the israelis would want to be driving over them before them lads would moveThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Comment
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sorry, but what does bmr stand forcourage, endurance, mateship and sacrificeComment
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Same as FMR, only smaller, and more local.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.Comment
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bed, meals relaxing
there daily activity
(Battalion Mobile Reserve)Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Comment
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Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
that really helpded, something reserve anyway, at a guesscourage, endurance, mateship and sacrificeComment
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Battalion Mobile Reserve
Force Mobile ReserveThe worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
(George Bernard Shaw, Playwright, 1856 - 1950)Comment
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So your answer here is really they can make their own teaOriginally posted by hedgehog View PostWithout supplies no army is brave.
—Frederick the Great,
Instructions to his Generals, 1747
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