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Forum: General Chat 29-07-2008, 14:02

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? Why on earth should I want to ‘pick the bones’ out of something that I wrote? That’s your job except that you cannot because it illustrates the nonsensical rubbish that you publish from time to time....

Forum: General Chat 27-07-2008, 03:02

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? I do believe that “The front line is where the enemy missiles, bullets and shells land, not where they are fired from” already made that clear. I never said that women are not employed on the...

Forum: General Chat 26-07-2008, 14:34

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? The front line is where the enemy missiles, bullets and shells land, not where they are fired from.

Forum: General Chat 24-07-2008, 14:35

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? What planet are you from Roy? It states that we were on a war footing off shore to Cyprus. DC2 is cruising in a war zone and DC1 is action stations when action was imminent. We cruised on our own...

Forum: General Chat 24-07-2008, 11:46

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? Can you not read? It’s all there in my post #31. However you still haven’t told us your answer to my question. “Pray tell me how do you evacuate when the nearest ship or land is hundreds if not...

Forum: General Chat 24-07-2008, 03:05

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? First of all my naval experience ended in 1967. Things are different today. But the son of a very close friend was down at the Falklands and his son is now out in the gulf. But yes I do know what...

Forum: General Chat 23-07-2008, 22:30

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? Pray tell me how do you evacuate when the nearest ship or land is hundreds if not thousands of miles away? Then there is the operational point. Women on warships have various duties not confined...

Forum: General Chat 23-07-2008, 21:46

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? Everyone is in the front line on a warship. In the event of a forthcoming engagement the ship doesn’t head hell for leather to the nearest port to dump the girls. What might happen is if a...

Forum: General Chat 23-07-2008, 20:16

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? It depends on how you define combat roles. Women serving on warships are in potential combat roles even if they don’t actually man the guns and missile launchers as is every person on board....

Forum: General Chat 11-07-2008, 15:41

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? The yanks, who else? We never fired live shells nor had live ones fired at us during exercises. We used starshell that exploded in mid air well above the ship (in theory, although we had a...

Forum: General Chat 10-07-2008, 21:03

Replies: 45 Joining the army not to fight? Views: 1,544 Posted By jambutty Re: Joining the army not to fight? When I joined the Royal Navy in 1954, during the first 6 weeks of basic training it was all about fighting and being shot at. Square bashing to instil discipline, rifle firing with live rounds so...

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