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Originally Posted by cashman
the sun is a shameless rag n has not entered my house fer many a year Re-Sheffield, Brown has made n apology personally, Jaysay deserves credit fer NOT point scoring, whereas Barrie is obviously a "Sun" reader who has emigrated.  |
Sorry to say that you have got it wrong once again. I am not and have never been a Sun reader - didn't it support Labour until recently?
British Forces have always been short of equipment either in quantity or type - in the '60s the Malaysian Army had SLR rifles and Sterling Sub-machine guns - we had Lee-Enfield rifles and Sten Guns. Despite snakes,scorpions etc we were issued with sandals as there were no Jungle Boots available for us - unless we bought them in the local Bata shop. Same for the Falklands - quick trip to some shop in the Lake District to get some decent kit for my son - better quality than issue kit.
And a comment for g jones :- Sorry, but i find it hard to determine the logic within your post, somewhat fragmented and inaccurate.