@OfficerofEngin1 @DrChrisParry Now that is a reference to Civil Servants that I didn't have on my bingo card 🤣🤣🤣, I need to go back to some of the reading of my youth....
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Will Mac
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A retired Sapper with a passion for Military History and horse riding, with a particular interest in the Mounted Units of the Royal Engineers.
East Midlands, England เข้าร่วม Ekim 2018
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@DrChrisParry Why do all these senior civil servants have such weak, flappy, pale hands? More like fins than hands
Lovecraft’s Deep One hybrids
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Who’s the chap doing a nodding dog impersonation behind Olly Robbins every time Robbins seeks to excuse the government?
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@DreyfusJames Being messed about by some dancing mossy clag...thats all a bit of a bugger! Hopefully this will help to clear some of that clag!
Bash on James!
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Account is restricted yet again.
If you could drop a brief comment on my posts below, it apparently helps that algae-rhythm…
Thanking you in advance.
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@DreyfusJames Feck me that's a brass neck and a half....based on Tom Watsons past experience of not spotting liars he might want to sit this one out ..
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@dampierguy It needs to focus on recruitment across the whole, & stop fudging figures with the Gurkha expansion simply as an easy fix.
Too long the recruitment has been focused on DEI recruiting rather than open recruit & accept that you would get females & minorities as part of the process
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The contention by the military and politicians that we should be getting ready for a peer conflict is hard to take seriously when they are still obsessed with social engineering. Women are 11.9% of the British military. In 2023 women were about 4% of the Ukrainian military.
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The Defence Committee heard from General Sir Roly Walker, Chief of the General Staff at @DefenceHQ on the percentage of women serving in the army being still too low, and a need to attract the 'brightest and the best' to get ready for 'what might be coming.'
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I couldn’t be more proud to be serving in Keir Starmer’s Government. This is exactly the leadership our country needs in uncertain times. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
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@davidjmcarson1 @enbloc30m1 Unlikely to be confiscated by MOD as this was purchased by a certain R Reeves as a gift for a Mr J Healey. Apparently the gift card says "Thats all your getting now stop whingeing- loads of luv Treasury"
Apparently that the Defence Spending Review squared aware.
#provemewrong
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Let's just hope the MoD won't confiscate and destroy it.
David Carson MBE 🇺🇦@davidjmcarson1
End of an era for me today after owning this Hetzer for 46 years it was time to say goodbye as it’s off to its new owner. Delighted it’s staying in the UK after lots of enquiries from the USA, Germany, Holland, it found a British buyer, who will care for it now.
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You have been given an extra ten billion quid a year for defence, what you buying?
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Hobbes update.
Because he’s been in & out of a cone for nearly 4 months now, due to his obsessive-compulsive desire to eat his own leg, through no fault of his own, he’s now on a crash diet.
He’s back at school from next week 🤞🏻so, hopefully, he can ditch the junk from his trunk…
Go Hobbes! You can do it!!
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@OfficerofEngin1 @SkyNews Proving to be wetter that a bed wetter's sheet in the morning.....
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'To President Putin, I say, we see you. We see your activity over our cables and pipelines. You should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences.' John Healey says the UK has detected 'increased Russian activity in the Atlantic'
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@thinkdefence My local MP will constantly justify the legislation by stating it was drafted & approved by Al Cairns. And interesting that he has stood up & argued that the law was good & needed. I suspect that he is maneuvering for himself politically & his military service was so last year...
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How do Labour Party voters, supporters, members, MPs and ministers, especially those with a service background or connection, reconcile their party affiliation with the Northern Ireland veterans prosecutions. Am genuinely interested
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@thinkdefence ACNs, PCNs, LCNs....ooooh suit you Sir, Suit You!
I've spent a lot of time doing Air Support in one form or another and I have to say it is just a cracking environment and topic area to work in. I learned a lot about good practical Engineering and bashing on with the job.
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It could have even had a cheeky nod to cone penetrometers and the role of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE) in inventing them
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Was thinking of writing a thread on California Bearing Ratio (CBR) and Load Classification Number (LCN) as they relate to aircraft runways, especially for soft surfaces of the kind those US MC-130 aircraft experienced, but would probably be just called a blue tick wanker
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@DominicFarrell She's in the Kirk, seems to want to be there so let her be.
I'm more concerned by the fact that certain Kirk communities and their hierarchies are not interested in looking after their parishioners or their religion in the way the church/ kirk should.
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@thinkdefence I find it interesting that some of the people that left X because it was a 'hellhole' seemed to have slinked back & are going apoplectic about all sorts of Shite & once they break cover there is part of me that thinks I shouldn't deliberately poke them, but hey ho! shits&giggles!
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The funny thing is, one was because I said people should be careful of live tweeting about the downed pilots, and the second was about US material support for us during the 1982 Falklands Conflict. I like to think I remained polite, despite the abuse from actual morons
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Interesting day on here today, been called an idiot, a moron, a thick blue tick cunt, and even accused of tweeting gnomic phrases (I actually had to go and look that one up). All good fun
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@TheUCS473 There is a fudge of the figures as Gurkha have rebadged from Gurkha units across into British units. Overseas recruitment helped to increase the recruitment complacency. The use of capita brought in a org that didn't understand the "Job & Offer" while being slave to the process.
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@TheUCS473 There are several issues, Withdrawal of recruiting offices & teams from the traditional recruiting areas created lost visibility and access to local schools. Also the move to 50% University access also cuts the recruitment. Once you leave a recruitment area you cant get back in.
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When I joined in 85 we could maintain an Army of 150k in a population ~56 million. Army is half that & population is ~70 million. Huge demographic & social changes but still shocking that not enough people can be recruited. A problem throughout the western world generally.
BFBS Forces News@ForcesNews
Army applications fall📉 New figures show a 36% drop in applications — with last year's spike driven by a brief surge in Commonwealth recruits🔗⬇️ forcesnews.com/services/tri-s…
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@SteveD26185065 @thinkdefence Hey mind your language! We'll have no disparaging of the cheese flop here...
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@thinkdefence Out of all of the excellent articles you’ve written regarding U.K. defence, even the cheese flops… this is your Magnus opus
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@thinkdefence And my addition to the debate with these individuals is ...
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Dave doesn’t watch the @BBCNews because Dave doesn’t understand what they are saying!
To be honest neither do I….
Dave loves everyone he meets, be like Dave ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Not only was it extremely lovely to wake up to so many pics of people’s dogs, it was also hugely heartening to note the universal outcry at the BBC’s sudden, & rather transparent, motivation to ‘suggest’ that we, as a country, might have taken our love for dogs “a bit too far…”
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