OT- Hard as Nails

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Bl....dy h.ll! What does he have to do to get highest military honour?

 

First thing I thought too!

Even used sandbags and a rifle tripod to fight them off with when he ran out of ammo. All while bring bombarded with rocket propelled grenades and AK47s.

 

A man I would love to know.

This man is a hero in the truest sense of the word.

 

If you read the histories of the recipients of the Queens Cross they are pretty impressive - - the typical story is more or less as above but the recipient had one limb blown off at the time or was carrying a wounded colleague, or both

 

Stories like this are just amazing.

Hate bringing football into it, but if anyone deserves to get paid a fortune it is this guy.

 

Nice to know that all those Gurkhas who have served more than 4 years in the Army are now allowed to settle in the UK. Must remember not to get into an argument down the pub with any short asian-looking gentlemen.

 

Really? Never realised they had changed the law, the way the British goverment has treated these people is bang out of order.

 

That's f** all. Just last night I made it from the bathroom, all the way to the spare room, removed a massive dagger like spleck from the bottom of my foot with tweasers, ignored the gusher, then down to the kitchen and put an elastoplast on all by myself.

(bathroom has no flooring down currently because I haven't got round to sorting it much to my other halfs dismay - we have a youngun. A builder never finishes his own gaff, its the law)

Nobody gave me a f**ing medal for that heroic bloodbath.

 

Think that rates as a self-inflicted injury - in which case you could be court-martialled if its deliberate!

 

The result of a particularly comic and single handed decimation of the British government by Joanna Lumley.

 

Or when you break a nail but it doestn completely come off and goes right down the side of your nail.

 

I think the whole of the armed forces get a rough deal.
They are underpaid, even when you take into account deployment money.
In the US, when a soldier enters, say a bar or a sporting arena they get a standing ovation for what they do for us... in this country there is sadly a mixed reaction to soldiers.
Here's just one clip from 2011 of US Service personnel arriving home at DFW airport (a civillian airport).

[video=youtube;Zgf4HvwhIrU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Zgf4HvwhIrU[/video]

 

Get called baby killers in this country by certain sections of the community. Let's not forget that it was armed forces that fought to give those people the freedoms they enjoy. I have the utmost respect for anyone serving in the armed forces. People may not agree with Government policies, but at the end of the day, service men and women are doing one of the toughest jobs imaginable, are paid peanuts and don't get the recognition or respect they deserve. Shocking really.

 

Okay, I'll identify myself as the pariah.

I find the US adulation of their armed forces creepy.

I find the use of the word "hero" to describe any member of the armed forces weird and mildly offensive. Many are not people who are in any way praiseworthy. The army attracts a certain type of very nasty individual (as well, of course, as many fine people).

A degree of respect for a difficult job generally done pretty well (the sort you give to firemen, say, or nurses) ? Sure.

Willing to buy the bloke next to me a pint if he's off to or back from deployment ? Usually.

Anything beyond that is on a person by person basis

 

Agree with you both with regard to the US and to this country.

Not everyone is a hero who is in the "Armed Forces" and I believe it is disrespectful to those who genuinely are "heroes" to simply call everyone a hero just because they are in the Forces.

I would definitely not want to do their jobs and almost everyone in the Forces deserves respect for the job that they do, as you say, like doctors, firemen etc but that does not automatically make them hero's in my mind.

 

I live very close to the Gurkha Regiment barracks and you couldn't wish to meet a more quiet, respected people than these are. Their loyalty to the UK is widely known and I'm glad they are now getting a lot more recognition than previous.
My daughter lives next door to a Nepalese family and they are more welcoming than any of her previous neighbours. I for one salute the Gurkhas.

 

What I've always heard of the Gurkas. All of the bravery, none of the swagger.

 

agree 100%
american's attitude to soldiers - or just US nationalism in general - is mental
but this is a nation that claps at cinemas FFS

when i was younger, i lived in a town near a big squaddie base
there were a LOT of ****s, that would come to town to drink, fight, and generally have a bad attitude to "civvies"
especially the ****ers that wore their camo gear even when off duty. like to the pub. prats.
everyone i know who joined the armed forces out of school were either bullies/thugs or those too thick to get jobs anywhere else.

 

That bloke makes Rambo look camp.