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It may be; it may not be. That decision ultimately lies with the child and their parents.

We've needed them many times in the past. I think the UK actually does a great job of respecting the special forces without the slightly weird idolisation and hero worship that seems to happen in the US.

When I read that what popped into mind was the opening to Lone Survivor. The inserted SEAL Team let go the kid and the old man which, if true, led to not only three team members killed but also, I think, 19 Seal Team rescuers. I don't draw a precise analogy for comparison, rather it causes me to think just how weighty and elastic so called rules of engagement must seem in real combat.

Would that be a peckeroni pizza?

Sure, there has to be a standard for the legal side as well. But letting people kill with impunity and without oversight, nor penalty for misbehaviour is not quite the right way to run a military, or nay branch of it. Fucking up a judicial case is not a reason not have a judiciary.

Just be cautious about which branch of the military you assign to investigate alleged war crimes. Canadian Captain Robert Semrau's (?) trial was a flaming fiasco and wasted millions of Canadian tax-payer dollars. The trial include flying a stack of military legal types to Afghanistan many years after the crime. What they could learn years after the crime is a mystery to me??????????? There was also the miserable treatment of Canadian snipers serving in Afghanistan. It seems that a Canadian Army padre was offended by some snipers' black humor. My brother's (retired Warrant Officer) suggestion was to hire padres with tougher senses of humor. A recurring theme in "Canadian military justice" is to hold Canadian soldiers - serving in Afghanistan - to the same standards as Toronto municipal police officers. ... a ridiculous concept in a country as poor as Somalia or Afghanistan. When I tried to make a comparison between the behaviour of Russian soldiers invading Ukraine (2014 to present) with Quebec Provincial Police Officers in Oka, circa 1990 ... my high school history teacher cousin was shocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Part of the problem is that the Canadian public never hears about some of the nastier things done for their benefit. What was that quote from an American SF type who said "We are rough men who do rough things to other rough, nasty, brutish people (e.g. Taliban) to allow gentle people (e.g. citizens of the USA) to sleep peacefully in their beds?" The only difference is that North American soldiers attack nasty people (e.g. Boko Haram) on the far side of the planet.

Errm, do you not think they’ll just repeat what they wrote in the reports? That they led an unrestrained captive back into a building and he grabbed a gun or a grenade. Then they did the same thing the next day. And the next day. And all the next week. And the week after that. Funny thing is I’ve known people who were in the SAS and they didn’t give me the impression of being total morons.

Respect for the military means rooting out corrupt and murderous officers and soldiers, and preventing illegal ‘illegal unofficial policies’ like this one from developing. I don’t know why you hold our soldiers in such contempt that you would ask good people to serve with and under psychopaths. I don’t know why you believe our soldiers lives are of so little value that you would support actions that directly aided the strength and ferocity of the Taliban insurgency.

The UK military has a very long history of being one of the most brutal occupiers ever. The BBC has a long history of being one of the world's best news organizations.

Judge not, that ye be judged. For with what judgment, ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again Before you remove the mote from your brother's eye, see that you remove the beam from your own He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her

And that may reflect bad ongoing post-situation analysis. Because a single event of someone innocent being killed in wartime doesn't usually attract that much attention back home. A pattern does, and post-situation analysis should make sure that patterns don't happen. This was over months if I read correctly, not a single engagement. Wendy P.

It's always a bit sad when a clickbait post like this has no takers and drops down the list into oblivion. So I'll correct that. Of course, it's the BBC who have done the investigative 'journalism' (in this case a euphemism for stabbing our own military in the back, which the media do well in the UK). This is the same BBC who yesterday posted a picture of Raheem Sterling in a report on a footballer accused of a sex offence, only it wasn't Raheem who was accused.....so they obviously do their job so well....... One of the reasons, I suspect, for no bait takers might just be that a large percentage of the members on this site are American. Many are ex military or have familial connections to the military. The Americans that I know hold their military and veterans in high esteem and maybe they feel some affinity for their cousins across the pond. After all, it's a war situation the BBC are 'reporting' on and as some will know, in war sh*t sometimes happens, and it's not one way traffic either. We in the UK might do well to learn to try and respect our military, especially Special Forces. We might just need them one day.

One important difference is you can't choose your skin colour. But religion, on the other hand...

Now that is funny.

I stop at nothing, in my opposition to negative numbers.

Priests having sex with underage children is child abuse. That does not mean that all of Christianity is child abuse. And yes, that's different than "I hate blacks." Let's try this: "OJ Simpson is a murderer" "Blacks are all murderers." Can you see the difference there? I don't know how I can simplify it any further, but I can try if you like.

This did come up before. I think I was the one that noticed that they weren't pink and speculated whether they might be from the dummy chute. But I looked into it and it turns out that they were most likely already there when given to Cooper. They are there to tie the bottom of the container to the harness. The main structural attachments of the reserve to the main harness are those metal clips. But then the bottom of the reserve container would be free to move and flap about in freefall. In earlier and various versions of gear there were straps and or clips to attach the bottom, but with the mix and match of various gear it became easier just to tie it down with those pieces of line. Again, that's nothing structural about the attachment, it just holds the bottom of the container down. That one picture of Linn Emerick standing in front of the rack of reserves at his dropzone, you can see those lines on a few of them. That's known as a larks head. It's just a piece of line folded in half, the looped end is put through/around the handle and the loose ends put through the looped end. If you were to try to re-close the packed chute, yes. But if you cut the chute out and just tried to put money in there it shouldn't be that hard to reset the ripcord or just tie it shut.

Another lie from Jordon. Anyone surprised?

Transcript ep 2 https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1418&t=54971 ep 3 https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1418&t=54972 ep 4 https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1418&t=54973

I have been watching or listening to them all and I am properly pissed off. I am properly pissed off that we're 18 months since an obvious coup attempt by a sitting US President and all we've done is put some hot headed morons in the can. There is no obvious indication that the DOJ will do anything beyond deploring the whole sorry mess. The hearings are great but are being ignored by most people, even smart ones like you. It's time to do something even if it's wrong.