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British Military Current Events

dapaterson said:
You'd be surprised how many postal techs have impressive collections of medals, based on being a small trade in high demand for deployment.
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I made a set of ribbons for a postie waaaaay back in the day when we still did cash sales.

4 rows of 3 and and double on top. To this day its the most I have ever seen in person. And this was back in the early oughts.

I imagine he must have needed to some ballast in his tunic.
 
Make sure the CQ has adult diapers stocked up in F Ech ;)


Veterans aged 65 told to prepare for war

The Government is set to increase the age at which the nation’s pool of retired soldiers, known as the strategic reserve, can be called upon from 55 to 65.

The new measures are being introduced as part of a new Armed Forces bill, which will be published in Parliament later.

The changes will make it easier to mobilise tens of thousands of former military personnel.

The Army has shrunk to its smallest number in more than 200 years, with just over 70,000 full-time, fully-trained troops ready to deploy to the frontline.

Under existing rules, the pool of retired soldiers can be called upon in the event of “national danger, great emergency or attack in the UK”.

However, under the new changes, this will be lowered to “warlike preparations”, which is already the threshold for reservists who have recently left the Armed Forces.

The measures come amid fears Britain could be dragged into a full-scale war with Russia in a matter of years.

Defence and security chiefs have repeatedly warned of the potential for large-scale war in recent months.


www.yahoo.com

Veterans aged 65 told to prepare for war

Military veterans aged 65 face being mobilised under new powers to prepare the Armed Forces for war.
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daftandbarmy said:
Make sure the CQ has adult diapers stocked up in F Ech ;)


Veterans aged 65 told to prepare for war

The Government is set to increase the age at which the nation’s pool of retired soldiers, known as the strategic reserve, can be called upon from 55 to 65.

The new measures are being introduced as part of a new Armed Forces bill, which will be published in Parliament later.

The changes will make it easier to mobilise tens of thousands of former military personnel.

The Army has shrunk to its smallest number in more than 200 years, with just over 70,000 full-time, fully-trained troops ready to deploy to the frontline.

Under existing rules, the pool of retired soldiers can be called upon in the event of “national danger, great emergency or attack in the UK”.

However, under the new changes, this will be lowered to “warlike preparations”, which is already the threshold for reservists who have recently left the Armed Forces.

The measures come amid fears Britain could be dragged into a full-scale war with Russia in a matter of years.

Defence and security chiefs have repeatedly warned of the potential for large-scale war in recent months.


www.yahoo.com

Veterans aged 65 told to prepare for war

Military veterans aged 65 face being mobilised under new powers to prepare the Armed Forces for war.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
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They may have to deploy to quell the assholes the UK have allowed in.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
I am not surprised, I actually have a lot of respect for the trade. It is more that postal tech isn’t generally what one thinks of when you think military.
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One of those secret trades that nobody talks about until after you're in... lol

Kinda like traffic tech. A cool trads they all seem to love, that nobody ever informed me even existed until I was done my QL3 & not going anywhere for a while (laterally anyway)
 
daftandbarmy said:
Tsk, tsk, tsk... you keep that up and you'll be required to report for PC re-education ;)
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I have a mentor that was Rhodesian...then moved to the RSA when it became Zimbabwe - did his medical and surgical training with the SADF, when they were largely Afrikaans...
 
Halifax Tar said:
That strikes me as a very American looking badge.
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Well, these Rangers are supposed to be the equivalent of the US Green Beret so ...

Sadly, it's more like the Light Division's attempt at worming their way into the growing crowd of 'Specials' in the UK while showing the Yanks that 'we're set up to collaborate on yet more of your hair brained schemes'.

It's also a good way of avoiding the real (much more difficult and expensive) elephant in the room for the British Army: need a couple of armoured divisions ;)
 
daftandbarmy said:
Well, these Rangers are supposed to be the equivalent of the US Green Beret so ...

Sadly, it's more like the Light Division's attempt at worming their way into the growing crowd of 'Specials' in the UK while showing the Yanks that 'we're set up to collaborate on yet more of your hair brained schemes'.

It's also a good way of avoiding the real (much more difficult and expensive) elephant in the room for the British Army: need a couple of armoured divisions ;)
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It reminds me of this:

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Bonus points if you know the game thats from
 
medicineman said:
Odd, "apartheid terror squad" is a bad term, given (a) they were Rhodesian, not South African and (b) they didn't care what colour you were.
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. While the term "apartheid" may have its origin in the Afrikaans word for apartness, even over a half century ago, when Rhodesia was still a country, the word was being used synonymously for government imposed racial segregation.

RHODESIA: Apartheid Edges North

Harder times lie ahead for Rhodesia's blacks. The Parliament of the breakaway colony recently adopted a series of harsh new measures designed to impose South African-style apartheid on its...
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January 1, 1973
Harder times lie ahead for Rhodesia’s blacks. The Parliament of the breakaway colony recently adopted a series of harsh new measures designed to impose South African-style apartheid on its 5,000,000 subjugated Africans. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith still speaks confidently of achieving a “settlement” with Britain some time next year. But he knows full well that the new measures, if his government enforces them severely, could hardly be accepted by the British government.

Among other things, the new laws 1) forbid Rhodesian blacks to travel outside the country unless each journey is approved by a white civil servant, 2) force all Africans over age 16 to carry an identity pass at all times, on pain of a $140 fine and six months in jail, 3) reinforce the segregation of public swimming pools, 4) bar blacks from moving to white urban areas unless they have jobs or special permits, 5) prevent Africans from being served food and drink in white areas after 7 p.m. on weekdays and all day Sunday, and 6) declare purely white areas “Europeanized” to prevent “infiltration” of Asians and coloreds.

A likely next step: race classification boards, like those in South Africa, to determine who is white and who is not.
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A. Definition of Terms
1 The term ‘apartheid’ derives from the Afrikaans word for ‘apartness’ or ‘separateness’. Originally, it was used only to describe the distinctive South African system of racial segregation and classification along racial lines accompanied by a denial of basic human rights and political rights to the black and so-called ‘coloured’ (mixed race) population of South Africa between 1948 and 1994. Throughout the years, however, and particularly after apartheid rule had ended in South Africa in 1994, the meaning of the term has broadened. Today, it is used as a synonym for any ‘racial segregation and discrimination policies enacted by a government against a section of its own people’ (de Than and Shorts 110; see also Equality of Individuals; Racial and Religious Discrimination).
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Blackadder1916 said:
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. While the term "apartheid" may have its origin in the Afrikaans word for apartness, even over a half century ago, when Rhodesia was still a country, the word was being used synonymously for government imposed racial segregation.

RHODESIA: Apartheid Edges North

Harder times lie ahead for Rhodesia's blacks. The Parliament of the breakaway colony recently adopted a series of harsh new measures designed to impose South African-style apartheid on its...
time.com time.com



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I'll give you that...
 
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