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Ladies and Gentlemen, taken from The Times, of London, with some additional notes from I SUNDAY DECEMBER 23 2001 Battle bravery: SAS seeks Victoria Cross for shot soldier ROBERT WINNETT THE Ministry of Defence is being urged to recommend that an SAS soldier injured in...

Mr Dorsch, I have just had three emails from people who pointed out your message to me. Sir, may say this to you, I do not post here with the intention of being rude, offensive, or in any way trying to attempt to belittle others, if they have an opinion which is at opposite‘s to mine so be...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The 10th Battalion, CEF, man executed was a Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Alexander. He had served for eight years in the King‘s Royal Rifle Corps including service in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War, emigrated to Canada in 1911, enlisted into the Alberta Regiment 24...

Ladies and Gentlemen, They were not executed by their British commanders, but, were executed in accordance with Canadian Military Law. If you read the background of these indivdual executions of the 23 shot, you will get a totally different story, five should not have, four are marginal, and...

Sir, Bags of Swank : showing off ones swagger and bounce, the bluff ostentatiously smart soldier and proud of it. Head up, straight back, arms swung forward and back with thumbs pointing to the front, with the roll in your march, at 120 paces per minute. When I was a RQMS you never issued it...

Sir, The Parachute Regiment (PARA Regt), has 3 regular battalions (1-3), and a Territorial Army battalion (4) this has training depots from London to Scotland. Two regular bns belong to 16th Air Assault Brigade at Colchester, since 5th AIrborne Brigade was converted into a mechanized brigade...

Sir, Thank you for that, will try. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Sir, The Cougar has exactly the same problem as the Griffon, it may be able to have 29 lightly equipped troops in its hold. Unfortunatley it cannot fly very far with them. Even without the defence suite, any form of weapons system etc, they were in Bosnia/Kosovo only rostered to carry nine...

Sir, I have the latest Defence Report (2001-2002) in front of me at the moment, just received today. A 120mm mortar system is not on our list of requirements. Besides we are broke, what with the UN owing Australia some 4.9 billion US Dollars for East Timor as of the end of the last financial...

Sir, The purchase of the 20 120mm mortar systems was thankfully stopped, it was part of the ludercious Army 21 concept that has now gone by the board. Apart from the change in the military concept (it was intended by our then Labor Government that all military actions should be reactive and...

Sir, I had prior to posting, as I said I had looked through "In Search of Pegasus" (history of the CAR), also "The First Ten Years". All to no avail. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Gentlemen‘ Re the Merkava, the ‘cubbyhole‘ at the rear of the vehicle is not designed to carry personnel, it is actually for ammunition resupply. Jane‘s Armour and Artillery 1996 issue has a couple of very interesting photographs showing the fitment of the ammunition pallet into the space...

Mr Bobbett, This is a virus alert put out by Telstra: Goner computer virus alert A powerful new computer virus is causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned computer users to...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The following was posted by a chap on the Canadian Regiments list. It deserves a large audience. Yours, Jock in Sydney Subject: Beating Dead Horses The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you...

Ladies and Gentlemen, In Australia it would appear that our tardiness for deploying air and land troops (reinforced SAS Sqn group), is the problems of working under American command. The last of of the land contingent left Australian today, with our SAS under British command. It appears that...

Sir, This system was looked at here in Australia when we were still involved in the stupidty of the Army 21 concept. It was an expensive, complex piece of equipment, which if mounted on the lAV II chassis would have resulted in a extremely overweight vehicle, with no off road ability. It has...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just been asked by a friend for some help. On 20 July 1974, at Nicosia Airport, Colonel Clay Beattie, the commander of CANCOM with his radio operator marched across the airfield to warn the attacking Turks off. These two were accompanied by a British Army...

To the Gentleman who has just posted the above, Firstly Sir, may I say that having read your profile, it has given me the best laugh I have had on a trully stressful day. Secondly, my christian name is Gordon Angus, not Angus, which, I did not give you permission to use, especially in a...

Ladies and Gentlemen, There should be only one label; it is not peacekeeper, it‘s definately not that ludercious American term "warfighter", but, SOLDIER. The well trained, well led, motivated professionals who can do anything. The prime example being the British Army, which has immense...

Sir, I always thought you used the entrails of chickens!! and then added five?? Yours, Jock in freezing cold and totally unseasonal Sydney