Discuss RAF protecting Camp Bastion in Royal Air Force on The Army Rumour Service; RAF doing longer than 4 months?
Op Karachi may have to be put in place....
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RAF doing longer than 4 months?
Op Karachi may have to be put in place.
- 25-06-2012, 21:11 #32Senior Member
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Now while the RAFP might man the MEP along with USMC et al, the actual exterior bit of protecting Bastion, better known as a FO big ops box called BELLEAU WOOD, is patrolled by the USMC and the RAF Regiment FP Wg. Its not that sexy but it needs to be done, especially when you're droning in on your Tri* low and slow with 200 odd souls on board.
Originally Posted by sunnoficarus 
They've had their fatalities too.
Perhaps it's time we sorted out the Army's PR to match the RAF's rather than moaning about which Welsh cavalry regiment's going to disappear.
Pity about Nigger though - I never did trust that McGoohan bloke.The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
time
Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
track:
Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
went through.
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- 25-06-2012, 21:33 #33
You forget USMC, RAF Regt, Estonians and Georgians... plus some civvie contractors.
"See The Little Faggot With The Earring And The Make-Up
Yeah Buddy That's His Own Hair
That Little Faggot Got His Own Jet Airplane
That Little Faggot He's a Millionaire"
- 25-06-2012, 21:37 #34Senior Member
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And Tongans, which is why I said 'et al'. Originally Posted by Screw_The_Nut The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
time
Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
track:
Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
went through.
'Gate' by Ciaran Carson
- 25-06-2012, 21:38 #35Senior Member
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I don't think pilots need cross-training to promote themselves... Originally Posted by Pebbles015 "Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail"
- 25-06-2012, 22:12 #36Fair enough. Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker
Ps. and the Afghans... sort of!"See The Little Faggot With The Earring And The Make-Up
Yeah Buddy That's His Own Hair
That Little Faggot Got His Own Jet Airplane
That Little Faggot He's a Millionaire"
- 25-06-2012, 22:21 #37If the Army PR matched the RAF PR machine, we would not have room for any other posts on here, RSS would go into melt down and sooner than we knew it it would be posts about people doing their job. Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker
As to the Welsh Cavalry, now there is a tale of grit against adversity, Max Boyce is penning a new song as we speak. He is, however, finding it difficult to find words that rhyme with Cavalry.
Any suggestions?Dry books of tactics are beneath the notice of a man of genius, and it is a known fact that every British officer is inspired with a perfect knowledge of his duty, the moment he gets his commission; and if it were not, it would be sufficiently acquired in conversaziones at the main-guard or the grand sutler's.
Advice to Officer's of the British Army, published 1782
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And who would they be? Originally Posted by Screw_The_Nut
- 25-06-2012, 22:45 #39Nah, that does not rhyme with Cavalry. Originally Posted by Alamo
Actually thinking about it it does:
And who would they be; the Welsh CavalryLast edited by bokkatankie; 25-06-2012 at 22:47.
Dry books of tactics are beneath the notice of a man of genius, and it is a known fact that every British officer is inspired with a perfect knowledge of his duty, the moment he gets his commission; and if it were not, it would be sufficiently acquired in conversaziones at the main-guard or the grand sutler's.
Advice to Officer's of the British Army, published 1782
- 25-06-2012, 22:49 #40Never stopped to ask them, but they are all over that ops box Originally Posted by Alamo "See The Little Faggot With The Earring And The Make-Up
Yeah Buddy That's His Own Hair
That Little Faggot Got His Own Jet Airplane
That Little Faggot He's a Millionaire"
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