Originally Posted by BiscuitsAB

here ya go lads and lasses;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaints_stage1.shtml

Hit em where it hurts. No point winging on here because we all feel the same way and it will just be a back slapping exercise.

As for Pte Sharp he lied to get a discharge so bring him back in and if he refuses to soldier send him to Colly for 4 years.

My complaint.

"Another non story from the BBC which did nothing more than undermine the Army. I rushed home to watch this programme and feel mislead, where was the bullying?

This is the sort of exaggerated rubbish that I would expect from gutter press not the BBC. As an organisation you are going down hill rapidly and I very much look forward to the day when the licence fee is scrapped and you have to earn your keep."

don't expect to hear anything but if we can log a thousand plus complaints they will have to take notice.

Well, that was an hour out of my life. I'm shocked and horrified.

Shocked that this wanker thought his six months' worth of 'investigative journalism' was worth my hour watching it, and horrified that the recruits of today are still forced against all logic and common sense to wear Hats Ridiculous.

Plus; why are our military trainees now subject to such a regime of babylike cottonwoolly coddling when we expect them to be capable of functioning correctly under the most horrific circumstances - war? Furthermore, if they are conditioned, under the most carefully controlled supervision, to endure violence and fear, surely they are less likely to be a burden on our health services following the operational experiences our beloved Government demands they undertake?

I sincerely hope that the MoD recovers the costs of accommodating, feeding and training the man when it was absolutely clear from the beginning that he had no intention of staying beyond his basic training.

I feel a strong letter of complaint or two coming up.

Originally Posted by IT_Guy

To be honest I thought that wasn't the train crash I was expecting.

He mentioned some very good points about the Army as well as the bullying.

Parts of it seemed like a Army advert! and most of the heat was taken out of the report when it became obvious that some of the Mong Corporals got investigated BEFORE the BBC even got involved.

Overall I think it shows the Army in not too bad a light.

You have a point there, but SURELY some BBC boss pre-viewed this before broadcast and must have questioned the p1ss poor , so called evidence and lack of ACTUAL footage of any wrongdoing? The very fact it was deemed suitable for broadcast at peak time on beeb 1 shows a hidden agenda here?

Originally Posted by ZuluZulu

I was prepared to keep an open mind. After all there could have been some serious point. All I've seen up to now is perfectly reasonable and dare I say it, a bit soft training.

I known I'll be fuming about this for days possibly as much as when I seen the programme on Lympstone including the instructer showing recruits on how to put your quilt in its quilt cover tidily.

* QUILT !!

I share your sense of outrage and indignation; surely even the Bootnecks know that the correct term these days is DUVET? QUILT is just so 80's.

Originally Posted by The_Kurgen

Hearsay, conjecture and supposition.
Basicaly he`s uncovered the square root of fcuk all.
Seems to me the system is working as the all the instructers he named were investigated.
And how is a recruit shouting rascist things at the the bayonet dummy the Armys fault?????
Complete and utter shite, was of TV time and taxpayers money

Seconded.

Was that shite or what, based on hear say and half baked stories with no real supporting evidence, our TV license has gone on producing this crap and what happens? CGS comes on to give his angle on things.

In my opinion he should have told them to fu*k off and stop boring people with this rubbish, I'll tell you vote for me to run this country and I will sort all these fuc*ing idiots out.......promise.

If I am reading between the lines of what he was saying, he did say during that pile that swearing and shouting added up to bullying.

This would be such a bad thing when teaching young girls how to have a tickling contest.

The most annoying thing about that film was that no evidence was presented of anything occuring other than hearsay and teenage recruits venting about NCOs.

I would love to have seen some bullying but none was presented. Being under investigation does not mean its true. Just cause some recruit has gobbed off does not mean it happened.

I hope the BBC allow a right to reply...

The only thing i saw that might do some damage is the idiot recruits saying " yeah i wanna shoot ragheads " fecking cnuts. Apart from that get a grip its the bloody army!! stand by for the pc brigade, they are gonna love this. I call it character building and that's it.

I watched 'Bad Lads Army,Occifer Clarse' on ITV4 but I taped this 'programme' to watch later.I take it it was BBC Anti-Climax-jump-on-the-bandwagon-shoite then?

Was nice to be Dannet at the end politely telling our man to f*ck off and stop being a hom.

I was half expecting him to say "you do know what we use infantry for right?"