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Residual colonial commitments will ensure that there will always be some kind of a long range parachute capability maintained.

When I joined, just before the Falklands War, they said the same thing: no more parachuting! After the war there was a massive investment in strategic parachute ops resulting in the stand up of 5 AB Bde.

The reality is that the UK must retain a rapidly deployable parachute force for SPE/NEO ops. The Sudan situation in 2023 almost resulted in the brigade going in, for example.

The spectre of UK nationals being chopped up into pieces on TV in a random 3rd world country could bring down a government pretty quickly, as well as being unhealthy for those UK passport holders.

 
My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive aircraft if we have to do it for real.

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My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive aircraft if we have to do it for real.

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The RAF is the reason why we always tried to get Fleet Air Arm support whenever possible ;)
 
Out, out, damned spot...


British soldiers face dismissal over positive drugs tests

More than 20 soldiers from the British Army could be sacked after testing positive for drugs.

According to the Sun, which first reported the story, 23 personnel from 32 Engineer Regiment based in Catterick, North Yorkshire, were reportedly caught in a sting just before Christmas. The newspaper described it as the "biggest drugs bust" to hit the Army.

The British Army said the soldiers may be discharged once investigations have concluded.

"Substance abuse is unacceptable in the Army," it said in a statement to the BBC.

 
In Aden, my old man had a preference for RN Wessex rather than Crab Wessex. Something about them actually showing up.

To be fair, having talked to Crab Aircrew, they were apparently operating under far more restrictive flying hour policies than the RN or AAC.

And they like to be home for dinner ;)
 

I recall a particularly miserable Div level exercise in Scotland with ample snow and rain.

On about day 6 of 12 we slogged past a small village and, parked out back on some PSP, we spied a Harrier.

The pilot and ground crew were lodged in the pub, of course, likely claiming hardship allowance ;)
 

Starmer is being hounded out.
Mandelson and Epstein and McSweeney.
IHAT.
Northern Irish Prosecutions.
Chinese Embassy
Chinese trip and kowtowing
Chagos
Immigration
Censorship and Anti-Social orders.
And way too many U-Turns to count.

His MPs don't like him and voters that created the Labour Party don't like him.

The only people that do like him are the money people that put him in there because they are dead scared of Reform and the direction that Badenoch, Truss and Johnson were bending, accommodating Farage. Now they are struggling to keep him in power because they fear the socialists of the Labour Party.

What they fail to grip is that Labour is made up of factions. The unionist faction is the originating faction made of of workers that went to church, started the co-operative movement and widows and orphan funds, and fought for wages and working conditions. The movement was then co-opted by the champagne socialists, the Webbs and Shaws of the Islington Fabian Society. That is the faction that has been driving the Labour agenda since WW1. It tends atheist and communist.

It is also internationalist/globalist.

And that is where it separates from the workers. The workers, by and large, are National Socialists. They don't sing The Interntional. They sing Labour's other anthem, "Jerusalem" - And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green.

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If Starmer is punted and the left gets in the backbench, I think, will go left on economics but hard right on defence and security.
And the money tribe will squawk.

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By the way, the Canadian analogues to the type of politicians found in the back benches are Bill Blaikie and Tommy Douglas. Nationalists. Fiscally conservative. Socially accommodating.
 
Ajax alternatives per British Forces Broadcasting Services

In reverse order

Lynx - new
CV90 - fan favourite

And, drumroll.....

CVR(T) Stormer II

Stormer is an upgrade of the Spartan. The Ukrainians like the Spartan and the Stormer is in service as a Starstreak/Martlet AD missile carrier.
Stormer II could be an upgrade of the Stormer.

 
UAS potentiated company in Jordan.
C Company PWRR - hold an urban position over night and conduct recce-strike tactics in the morning led by recce and sniper platoons
Total strength - 70

 

Starmer is being hounded out.
Mandelson and Epstein and McSweeney.
IHAT.
Northern Irish Prosecutions.
Chinese Embassy
Chinese trip and kowtowing
Chagos
Immigration
Censorship and Anti-Social orders.
And way too many U-Turns to count.

His MPs don't like him and voters that created the Labour Party don't like him.

The only people that do like him are the money people that put him in there because they are dead scared of Reform and the direction that Badenoch, Truss and Johnson were bending, accommodating Farage. Now they are struggling to keep him in power because they fear the socialists of the Labour Party.

What they fail to grip is that Labour is made up of factions. The unionist faction is the originating faction made of of workers that went to church, started the co-operative movement and widows and orphan funds, and fought for wages and working conditions. The movement was then co-opted by the champagne socialists, the Webbs and Shaws of the Islington Fabian Society. That is the faction that has been driving the Labour agenda since WW1. It tends atheist and communist.

It is also internationalist/globalist.

And that is where it separates from the workers. The workers, by and large, are National Socialists. They don't sing The Interntional. They sing Labour's other anthem, "Jerusalem" - And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green.

....

If Starmer is punted and the left gets in the backbench, I think, will go left on economics but hard right on defence and security.
And the money tribe will squawk.

....

By the way, the Canadian analogues to the type of politicians found in the back benches are Bill Blaikie and Tommy Douglas. Nationalists. Fiscally conservative. Socially accommodating.
so if Britain's relationship to China is causing consternation in Europe what effect will Carney's capitulation have?
 
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