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In the forces. I don't want to lead you on and make out I was some sort of Sugar Ray, I wasn't. Nothing like. I could move pretty well though, I didn't get cornered often.
That was all the best part of thirty years ago, mind. If you intend walloping me have a heart and wear big gloves.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
In the forces. I don't want to lead you on and make out I was some sort of Sugar Ray, I wasn't. Nothing like. I could move pretty well though, I didn't get cornered often.
That was all the best part of thirty years ago, mind. If you intend walloping me have a heart and wear big gloves.
Good stuff, sounds like you knew what you were doing at least. You served in Northern Ireland did you?
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I am the resurrection and i am the light. I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as i’d like
Good stuff, sounds like you knew what you were doing at least. You served in Northern Ireland did you?
All of our generation did.
Again, I don't want to give the impression that I'm in any way exceptional. I wasn't and I'm not. If I was a younger man I'd have been to Helmand, I suppose, older then it would have been The Falklands. You go where you're sent, I was no different.
What about you, did you think about joining up when you left school?
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
Again, I don't want to give the impression that I'm in any way exceptional. I wasn't and I'm not. If I was a younger man I'd have been to Helmand, I suppose, older then it would have been The Falklands. You go where you're sent, I was no different.
What about you, did you think about joining up when you left school?
No, not at all.
The Falklands documentary made out the Welsh boys were cannon fodder, somewhat. Was that your impression of your time served?
* BOX OFFICE POST ABOVE* TM
I am the resurrection and i am the light. I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as i’d like
Again, I don't want to give the impression that I'm in any way exceptional. I wasn't and I'm not. If I was a younger man I'd have been to Helmand, I suppose, older then it would have been The Falklands. You go where you're sent, I was no different.
What about you, did you think about joining up when you left school?
He was in the KBW Platoon. lol
The first ever recipient of a Planet Swans Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Falklands documentary made out the Welsh boys were cannon fodder, somewhat. Was that your impression of your time served?
If we're talking about the Falklands campaign then you could probably sit down and make a pretty lengthy list of mistakes made, and you know as they say hindsight really is a wonderful thing.
It's fair to bear in mind that we hadn't undertaken a large scale, wartime amphibious operation since troops were landed on the Malay Peninsula in 1945. That's a big gap, all of that know-how was no longer available on the ground. I'd say that the errors made were as a result of poor planning borne of inexperience and via casualties is a tragic way to learn.
An individual soldier, his platoon, his company could well be seen as pawns to be moved around on a General Staff board but viewed simply as cannon-fodder would be a pretty bleak conclusion to arrive at, Res.
In my (admittedly limited) dealings with very senior officers I found them to be very conscientious. "You are nothing, the men are everything" is the ethos drilled at Sandhurst, it prevails.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
If we're talking about the Falklands campaign then you could probably sit down and make a pretty lengthy list of mistakes made, and you know as they say hindsight really is a wonderful thing.
It's fair to bear in mind that we hadn't undertaken a large scale, wartime amphibious operation since troops were landed on the Malay Peninsula in 1945. That's a big gap, all of that know-how was no longer available on the ground. I'd say that the errors made were as a result of poor planning borne of inexperience and via casualties is a tragic way to learn.
An individual soldier, his platoon, his company could well be seen as pawns to be moved around on a General Staff board but viewed simply as cannon-fodder would be a pretty bleak conclusion to arrive at, Res.
In my (admittedly limited) dealings with very senior officers I found them to be very conscientious. "You are nothing, the men are everything" is the ethos drilled at Sandhurst, it prevails.
Sorry to but in, but on the subject of The Falklands, have you read "3 Days In June", by Jimmy O Connell, documenting 3 Para's assault on Mount Longdon? If you have, what did you think of it?
Is Max Hastings book on it any good?
As for Welshmen being cannon fodder, it seems they were out in Afghan, according to the book, Dead Men Risen.
I want a mate like Flashberryjacks, who wears a Barnsley jersey with "Swans are my second team" on the back.
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