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29-07-2010, 11:35 #1Senior Member
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New CGS
General Sir Peter Wall (Late Corps of Royal Engineers) is currently Commander-in-Chief Land Forces. General Wall will take over from the current Chief of the General Staff, General Sir David Richards, in September this year
Not news to many but now officially announced by the MOD today,
Ministry of Defence | Defence News | Defence Policy and Business | New Chief of the General Staff announced
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29-07-2010, 11:46 #2Senior Member
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An Officer of Engineers taking charge fills me with confidence
Colour Sergeant Bourne… I want you to take 6 of your best riflemen and pick off those bastards in the upper windows of Main Building!Last edited by Semper_Flexibilis; 29-07-2010 at 12:18.
Think of a herd of cats briefly all moving in the same direction due to a random quantum fluctuation...
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29-07-2010, 11:47 #3Senior Member
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Does this mean every exercise will now include a river crossing?
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29-07-2010, 11:52 #4Senior Member
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Or a minefield crossing. Do we still have Giant Viper? I did so love watching those demos, especially when they forgot to pull the pins and the thing stayed attached to the wagon when the rocket fired :D
"Alright, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."
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29-07-2010, 12:56 #5Moderator
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CrashTest: Giant Viper is now called Python. And used a couple of months back in AFG:
Ministry of Defence | Defence News | Military Operations | Royal Engineers blast through Taliban IED field with new weapon
Not strictly relevant to this thread though!The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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29-07-2010, 13:13 #6Senior Member
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Neither was the post before mine, to which I was responding
"Alright, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."
"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation." - Lily Tomlin
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29-07-2010, 14:41 #7Moderator
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I got a brutal bollocking off him once when he was COS 5 AB Bde and I was a snotty Lt... I hope he's forgiven me.
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What did you do, and was it justified?!
Originally Posted by cpunk
"In war the loser deserves to lose because his defeat must result from errors of thinking, made either before or during the conflict" Gen Andre Beaufre
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Even if it wasn't justified CPunk deserved it.
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29-07-2010, 16:39 #10Senior Member
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Sounds like something out of some gay porn film. Originally Posted by cpunk
Think of a herd of cats briefly all moving in the same direction due to a random quantum fluctuation...
"It costs money to have children...if you don't have any....then don't have them. It is THAT simple. " - Mr_Deputy
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29-07-2010, 20:09 #11Moderator
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Hungover and late for bde HQ PT. Yes. In mitigation, it was the day after my birthday. Originally Posted by alfred_the_great
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Previously we had a Gunner and now we are to have a Gunner with his brain removed!
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30-07-2010, 01:08 #13Moderator
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An interesting observation. Obviously based on no knowledge of the man. Originally Posted by lsquared
Perhaps you might enlighten those of us who know him well, as to what particular circumstance leads you to be able to tell us, obviously with a degree of authority since this is a public forum, that Gen Peter has no brain.
I await your specific evidence......The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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Gunner Officer=Someone with a chip on each shoulder
Sapper Officer=Gunner officer with brains.''God wanted to be a Sapper-Lo,and it was done!''
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30-07-2010, 16:00 #15Senior Member
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So he is a gunner officer with brains, and a chip on each shoulder, then, muhandis old chap?
For that is what your equation seems to boil down to.
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