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Old 12-07-2006, 19:59   #34
jambutty
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Talking Re: Bad Lads Army

A bit of good cop, bad cop eh! Tinkerbelle. Come to think of it our training instructor was of a similar calibre. He would rant and rave and make us do things that we wouldn’t make our worst enemy do but it was interspersed with kind acts. Well kind by his standards anyway.

The regime will get a response from most of them because I suspect that most of the lads are not really bad lads in themselves, they just got led that way by the real villains of the street.

You can’t get them away from the real bad guys in civvy street but once in a military environment you can block the bad influence of one or two. It is well known that if you take out the self appointed leader of a group the rest will conform. Those NCO’s have one thing that is lacking in most people and that is “Power of Command” as do all leaders of others. It isn’t just men either although most commanding people are men. Maggie Thatcher had it.

Good luck to them.
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