Rant on:

I have had the opinion for quite some time now that "Soldier" is an up-market Pravda where everything is bloody brilliant, PAYD, JPA, CS95 kecks etc. It was alway required reading in oour house, but now it goes almost directly to the recycle bin.

What tipped it for me was the August issue with "Gay Pride" shoite plastered all over the front and articles inside about the Mincers March plus some very scruffy gay and lesbian service people shabbily turned out for said event.

It is matter of complete indifference to me what the get up to in their spare time, but I did object to having a military mag over-taken by the PC brigade and have resolved NEVER to look at a copy again.

It is utter b*ll*cks anyway. Want to save some money MoD ? Well reduce the printing costs by stop doing the glossy act. Reduce it to a paper sheet like Navy News and RAF News. And stop printing all those glossy MoD/ Defence Mags. If I see another picture of FRES (which is still light years away) or some MP on HMS TROUTBRIDGE I'll puke.

Wake up and smell the coffee MoD. We're skint and it's going to take a good decade or so to put things right. You can cut costs by reducing the circulation, downgrading the product and STOP giving it free to units.

That'll focus your minds. Soldiers will have BUY it. Now given the choice of a shoite mag and an extra pint.....

RANT OFF

Rant on:

I have had the opinion for quite some time now that "Soldier" is an up-market Pravda where everything is bloody brilliant, PAYD, JPA, CS95 kecks etc. It was alway required reading in oour house, but now it goes almost directly to the recycle bin.

What tipped it for me was the August issue with "Gay Pride" shoite plastered all over the front and articles inside about the Mincers March plus some very scruffy gay and lesbian service people shabbily turned out for said event.

It is matter of complete indifference to me what the get up to in their spare time, but I did object to having a military mag over-taken by the PC brigade and have resolved NEVER to look at a copy again.

It is utter b*ll*cks anyway. Want to save some money MoD ? Well reduce the printing costs by stop doing the glossy act. Reduce it to a paper sheet like Navy News and RAF News. And stop printing all those glossy MoD/ Defence Mags. If I see another picture of FRES (which is still light years away) or some MP on HMS TROUTBRIDGE I'll puke.

Wake up and smell the coffee MoD. We're skint and it's going to take a good decade or so to put things right. You can cut costs by reducing the circulation, downgrading the product and STOP giving it free to units.

That'll focus your minds. Soldiers will have BUY it. Now given the choice of a shoite mag and an extra pint.....

RANT OFF

Originally Posted by auscam

Originally Posted by sfub

Soldier magazine is up there with those realistic adverts from a few years ago... you know, those "Frank" ones where apparently we were all on some white sandy beach with nubile lovelies (and no-one shooting/rpg-ing/ or bombing us)

Strangely, Otterburn, Sennybridge and the like didn't live up to the adverts. 23 years on, and I'm still waiting to go waterski-ing.

If you've read 'A Soldier's Song' by Ken Lukowiak, you'll know that those ads feature in the book. If you haven't, I won't spoil your fun.

He used to shag Gordon Browns missus.

Is that good or bad?

Originally Posted by auscam

Is that good or bad?

Not sure though it doesn't seem to have done his retina any harm.

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

Originally Posted by auscam

Originally Posted by sfub

Soldier magazine is up there with those realistic adverts from a few years ago... you know, those "Frank" ones where apparently we were all on some white sandy beach with nubile lovelies (and no-one shooting/rpg-ing/ or bombing us)

Strangely, Otterburn, Sennybridge and the like didn't live up to the adverts. 23 years on, and I'm still waiting to go waterski-ing.

If you've read 'A Soldier's Song' by Ken Lukowiak, you'll know that those ads feature in the book. If you haven't, I won't spoil your fun.

He used to shag Gordon Browns missus.

So thats the real reason, Gordon hates the Army, his missus screaming Ken as Gordon gives her one. Class, made my morning that.

Originally Posted by Scabbers

What tipped it for me was the August issue with "Gay Pride" shoite plastered all over the front and articles inside about the Mincers March plus some very scruffy gay and lesbian service people shabbily turned out for said event.

So you'll have missed this month's letters page with all the LGBT cheerleaders getting moistly outraged that all the pickled old scrotes wrote letters into the September issue complaining about the August issue. It's like very slow tennis.

The rest of it was complete arrse, as usual.

Originally Posted by wedge35

The April Fools articles are always good for a laugh. Every single year the month afterwards the letters page is always full of outraged officer cadets and old national servicemen making t1ts of themselves.

And wives as well. After a hard day trying to avoid work, I arrived home to be greeted by my (then) missus and a neighbour (both suitably outraged) as that year's April Fool article had been that smoking would be banned in all married quarters.

Originally Posted by Tartan_Terrier

Good suggestion, but I can't see it ever coming. Official publications always end up being like Soldier, i.e. bland and totally inoffensive.

Any Met coppers here? A few years ago I read a few copies of The Job, that were cluttering up the foyer at NSY, and I'll never complain about my workplace's in-house publishing again after reading that propaganda sheet! Actually, I did find it offensive, as I'm sure many Met Officers do too.

The only way to improve The Job would be to use lighter ink and make it softer and more absorbent.

Originally Posted by Idrach

Originally Posted by Scabbers

What tipped it for me was the August issue with "Gay Pride" shoite plastered all over the front and articles inside about the Mincers March plus some very scruffy gay and lesbian service people shabbily turned out for said event.

So you'll have missed this month's letters page with all the LGBT cheerleaders getting moistly outraged that all the pickled old scrotes wrote letters into the September issue complaining about the August issue. It's like very slow tennis.

The rest of it was complete arrse, as usual.

Nope, got a verbal read-out from a Lesbian who (thankfully) was posted the same month. No great loss. Fat, ugly, useless, but right up there with the PC, "I'm a minority so support me" shoite. The scary part is that they think they are so f*cking important, both Gay and Carpet Munchers.

Sorry love(s), the lads and lasses dodging the "incoming" are important oh, and the families left behind who have to cope with loss on an unimaginable scale not your wimmins rights and sexual orientation. "Look at me ! I'm gay and in the Army..........." How very f*ckin' modern.

So what ? Get your CEFO and helmet on, grab your Rifle and soldier-on sonny with no comment. Life and death is too f*ckin' important to waste time on a discussion as to where you fit into society, both generally and in the Army. Explosive charges, RPGs and various soviet / russian made rounds don't give a royal sh*t about your role in society either. And BTW HAC Soldier on the front of the Mag, you should never have got beyond the Guardroom, you scruffy bag of shoite, though I did note you had done at least one Op Tour.

If any "Soldier" Mag reporters / drones are in on this.....tighten your act up, stop pandering to MoD / HQLF or any other formation and all the PC Brigades at Main Building / Glasgow. Get some editorial balls and start doing a proper, cheaper, more effective job than you do now. Frankly, the rag isn't worth the (expensive) paper that it is printed on.

Here's some more pubs that need to be culled: Defence News, Management in Defence and all the other glossies that eminate from the comical outfit that calls itself 'procurement'. A good tac nuke at Abbey Wood would sort that shoite out.

Yes, it's Sunday morning and I had too much grog last night. Grumpy ? Oh yes!

I'm surpried Obama has said that he will reapeal the law on Homesexuality in the US Military. Well, lets see who deploys on the Mincers March in Los Angeles. Obama and the Pentagon will soon see a shift in focus when 'they' get used to airing their opinons in print. It will blott out all imortant stuff. F*ckin' minorities...they do my head-in.