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Originally posted by Orion View PostSmacks of payback re the pensions and residence campaign
Is that a 16% cut?"Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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Originally posted by Orion View PostSmacks of payback re the pensions and residence campaign
Is that a 16% cut?
British defence spending is a disgrace, and has been for a long time. Valuable manpower gets cut while the latest whiz-bang toys from BAe get pots of money thrown at them (and does the British nuclear deterrent make any sense?).
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"Yellowpack" ?
Expain that one, did the Gurkhas not recently secure the same T and C's
as everyone else in the British Army, namely allowed to serve to 22 years, rather then the
heretofore 15 years ?"Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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Originally posted by Truck Driver View Post"Yellowpack" ?
Expain that one, did the Gurkhas not recently secure the same T and C's
as everyone else in the British Army, namely allowed to serve to 22 years, rather then the
heretofore 15 years ?
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Originally posted by Wicklaman View PostCertainly indirectly, in that "yellowpack" Gurkhas are no longer on the table.
British defence spending is a disgrace, and has been for a long time. Valuable manpower gets cut while the latest whiz-bang toys from BAe get pots of money thrown at them (and does the British nuclear deterrent make any sense?).'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Wicklaman View PostCertainly indirectly, in that "yellowpack" Gurkhas are no longer on the table.
British defence spending is a disgrace, and has been for a long time. Valuable manpower gets cut while the latest whiz-bang toys from BAe get pots of money thrown at them (and does the British nuclear deterrent make any sense?).Last edited by knocker; 5 September 2011, 11:39.Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier - Samuel Johnson
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