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Message: [QUOTE="El_Pato, post: 6132, member: 617"] Did everyone else on this board see a different program. We in the army have grown used to the incompetence and Clusterfcuks that mean our soldiers go into battle with the wrong boots, have no faith in the chain of command to give them Nerve Agent Pretreatments that don't mean their kids will come out with two heads and fcuks the journos around unnessecarily. But the civvies watching, whose impression of the army will be informed by this sort of thing will be horrified. The guys on the ground came out of that first episode smelling of roses, the female signaller who gave an articulate summary of why she was there and why that was better than the alternatives her home town offered. The guys giving the briefings. The SDG Squadron OC. But I really don't think CV came across as anything other and a bit of a pompous Supercilious Tw@t, was it really nessecary for him to munch through cheese crackers whilst effectively telling the regional anchors of most of the UK news networks that they were going to have absolutely nothing to give to their newsrooms for the first few days of the war. And the absolute worst thing, was to hear all that sh.t about the importance of securing Umm Qasr "so that the when the journo's arrive there isn't a firefight going on in the background." I mean Christ Almighty if you are going to misinform the press deliberately try not to do it in front of a camera! And if you are going to risk soldiers lives do it for a better reason than that. The reason we in this army try to be up front with the press is that we have learnt from bitter experience that if you try to fcuk them about/tell them lies, it will rear up and bite you right on the Arrse. We need to do so much better than this. [/QUOTE]

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