The day the Navy died.

The Navy waste Billions on state of the art Frigates and man them with...???
To illustrate opinion of the quality of todays MOD Nelsons we have submitted this design for the next line of warships. It will be ideal for patrolling Offah's Dyke for when that alien nation gets independence. Major Julian Thompson Royal Marines awarded me £5.00 and I was classed unfit ships. That's because I got well relaxed and refused to give some lame excuse to a stranger -all-be-he an officer, as to why a disgruntled man got shitfaced. For the next twenty plus years I never once charged a man with being drunk who was off duty at the time and recovered sufficiently t be sober on parade.

Compare that to HMS Cornwall, HMS Nottingham... Unfit NAVY????

Perhaps they should have given Cornwall's boat crews grog instead of potato guns and blue liners - navy issue fags- when doing patrols. And those whalers appear to be a touch narrow in the beam for the fat arses on board! No doubt the modern sailor does not partake of the traditional whaler races that ensured fitness and teamwork? Hence no Gun Crews. They definitely have no need for them when supporting the members away from the ship.

You can see from above that Cornwall's gun crews were 'stood to'!!!

PS. Mr Blair, the Minister of Defence and the Labour Party, just what are you adding to five hundred years of Naval Tradition? A two handed salute?

Have you no idea of the shame that you bring on a once proud Service? Nelson was armless and minus an eye. His successors appear spineless, clueless and totally lacking moral fibre. If recruitment is so bad that you have to ignore standards then have the courage to tell the backslapping morons at Westminster precisely that. So what if you loose a little bit of your pensions. You'll appreciate what damage the 1973 Social Security and Pensions Act did for the ordinary servicemen.

Royal Marines, Civilians and the snivelling sh*ts who have all the answers

If It Weren't For 'Sheep Dogs There Would Be NO United States of America.

I received this as an email several years ago and it still has relevance:

Jill Edwards is a junior math major at the University of Washington.
In brief, Edwards, a member of the UW student senate, opposed a memorial to UW grad "Pappy" Boyington. Boyington was a U.S. Marine aviator who earned the Medal of Honor in World War II. Edwards said that she didn't think it was appropriate to honor a person who killed other people. She also said that a member of the Marine Corps was NOT an example of the sort of person the University of Washington wanted to produce.

Gen. Dula's letter to the University of Washington student senate leader:

To: Edwards, Jill (student, UW)
Subj: Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs

read more
and hopefully understand

Sunset on Brittania

With the tragedy of oncoming events rapidly unfolding, it will be said that this is not the time to raise delicate matters. When is the right time? Later, when those wonderful defenders of democracy can ignore every sensible syllable uttered?
Admiral Sir Alan West praises the restraint and discipline of the unfortunate 15 taken into captivity in Iran. But what a strange message it is sending to he Iranian nation. If the contention is that the sailors were within Iraqi territorial waters is correct, then what use is there in issuing them with weapons? What use is a helicopter if it cannot protect two patrol boats and their crews?

And where is the BBC film of the incident? Was the BBC crew on board the chopper or with the parties on the boats? It has been two days and no-one is asking these questions. It has been two days and not a single government spokesman has made a rational appearance within the media.

And what is a female doing in the party? According to one of the last party to be taken into custody in Iran..."it changes the mindset having a female along?"

An oppo of mine recently finished 22years in the Andrew and was muting his intention of going back in. He committed suicide instead. Another desperate soul that the politicians ignored and Navy failed to monitor.

The picture above is the Cornwall in sunset. Say No More!!!

Tragedy in the System.

IF

Written by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master,
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!

BOTB says: Little wonder this is still the most read poem of our times. I placed this poem as a tribute to Sally Clark and with deepest sympathy to her husband and family. This tragic event is the result of system failure and the attitudes of those within the system not to be able to admit they are wrong. Parliament take heed! These are the words of one parent who lost a child under awful circumstances and it eventually destroyed him. What torment must Sally and her husband endure?

You just do what we want you to...

I asked BT one simple question. What gives them the right to impose a surcharge on my account when I have always paid promptly, just because I will not give you 'carte blanche' to my bank account?
Two hours later the third manager was still reading off the same prepared script. They even had the nerve to tell me I am wrong and BT do not dictate to their clients and there is no contract!!! Ten minutes after that I quoted Alan Sugan..."BT. You are sacked!"

clipped from forums.moneysavingexpert.com Warning! BT increase charges for non direct debit payers What's happened You may have read in the papers, that BT is going to charge those who don't pay by Direct Debit more than others. Actually it already does that, the gap is just getting bigger. The Details. Currently line rental costs £11 for those that pay via direct debit and £12 for those that pay by any other means. Now those who pay without direct debit will pay £12.50 Why use BT? While BT itself isn't competitive, using it for line rental means you can access override providers such as those detailed in the Callchecker (always worth making six cheap calls a quarter via BT itself though, so you don't have to pay for its voicemail). This means if you can, switch your payment to direct debit before 1 May. More details on telephone costs see the cheapest home phones article. Martin

Robbing Peter?

When London first applied to host the Olympics I raised the funding questions and was told to wind my neck in. When i told both the major services charities that it would inevitably inflict upon them I was again told to shut up. Now let everyone tell me where the extra billions are to come from if it is not charity fundings?

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Olympics budget rises to £9.3bn Ms Jowell was accused of raiding the lottery good causes to pay for the overspend, but she said the Lottery would benefit from profit sharing based on rises in land values in the Olympic park area.

Opinions

clipped from www.stuff.co.nz Charles' principal private secretary Michael Peat issued a detailed rebuttal of accusations made in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary titled Charles: The Meddling Prince, highlighting how sensitive the king-in-waiting is to charges of meddling. "The investigation has been carefully researched over a period of six months. All the claims made in the film will be substantiated and we will fairly reflect the response of (Prince Charles' office at) Clarence House," a spokeswoman said.

Notareargunner adds: The denial of opinion and free speech is endemic. So what if Charlie bombards the mandarins of Westminster with 'food for thought'? As Rogue Gunner is trying to do, those who have knowledge of certain matters and have grave concerns for certain detail have no access to those who control matters. Letters to MP's are universally ignored. I even had an MP tell me he knows all about terrorism because he was within 200 yards of a London bomb. "Try running across roof-tops armed only with a stick of wood to apprehend gunmen firing down on soldiers in the street." That was in part of my country, the terrorist were British and British soldiers were defending other Britons. Or being out on a freezingly cold, wet autumnal night, bombs and bullets all around you and you have to huddle in soaked crevices because the powers that be will not give you the order to take out the gunmen...your friend and Commanding Officer lying a few feet from you with shrapnel in his brain, for him to survive as a vegetable while the pompous politicians had beer and sandwiches with the gunmen. This year they will call me a veteran for that and give me a Veterans Badge...I DON'T THINK SO! They can stick it with the Borneo and Aden ones.