Nathan

isn't the muslim brotherhood a part of al Qaeda . sure I read that some where . If so why would we want to give them arms ? as uk widowmaker said it will only end up being aimed right back at us !!

Hi UK Widowmaker , I agree with all you say , good luck to the people of Lybia and all countries that are oppressed . Any leader of a country that uses lethal force against there own citizens does not deserve to be a leader . Dictators forget the golden rule " although people need a government the government needs its people .........and a governement should fear its people , if they they think they are above their people they will fall . Human nature people will only take soo much then they rebel , History has shown this time and time again !!! . So all you tin pot Dictators .....watch out your time has come !!!!! . In the words of citizen Wolf " power to the people " :-) . cheers Mungo

hi daddyairplanes, Nothing better when you know ...........im gone and you cant touch me lol . A whole weight is lifted off your shoulders . God bless the Royal Air Force at the time , should have been on my re-settlement course but instead sent me to Bosnia for six months . My re-settlement officer went mad asking where you been ......duh bosnia six months you sent me ? . No apparently i should have had re-settlement courses which i could neither afford or qualifie for as i was an sac , bascically waste of time as at the time you had to front 80 % of the course fee's up front . No one had that sort of money unless you was an officer or high non com . All bulls**t really , but here i am still doing the same job but as a civilian . Things have changed now uk military get better deals , no up front costs , but still get s**t on . You done you bit mate , now enjoy your life with out some one saying you off to blah blah in six weeks for six months etc . Your lifes your own now mate enjoy it :-) regards Mungo

hi hgbn , True love bbq's and beers who wouldnt ? the person below me likes train spotting and loves nothing better than hanging around train stations all weekend getting train numbers !!!!! lol

Hi im from the UK but ROF is a great game , not sure about us squadrons but be pleased to join one nathan

false i believe its never happened the person below me loves country and western and sitting on the porch with grandma with a shotgun ?

Hi all , Happy new year and peace to all , ill raise a glass to that . Hope that this new year is a good one for jewish people around the world and long live Israel . :-) regards Mungo

I know what you mean , i used to think our justice system was good but now !!!!!! . Mindyou what else should we expect , our own government MP's have stolen a shed load of money from us the tax payers and seem to be getting away with it . You or i had done the same we would at least lost our jobs if not charged . Then there is the Stafford hospital A&E department where i think it was 400 people needlessly died due to poor care from the hospital staff . The head of the hospital got paid off with a huge amount of money and the women incharge of the nurses got moved to another hospital and there is to be no public enquiry . Why are they not in jail for man slaughter ? im dam sure if i killed 400 people through gross incomputence i'd be in jail . It seems to me if your high up or a scandle could embarrasse the government lets cover it up , however if your just a average person you get the book thrown at you !!!!! . Viva la Revolution brother is what i say Regards Mungo

How did you end up here at combatace ? .......my mum sent me out for a pint of milk lol regards Mungo

Hello all , Well i think in every job in this world you get people who although have an interest in what you do dont actually know how to do it . This goes for people pretending to be ex military ........usually failed to get in or in training , or arm chair pilots who wanna be pilots and even emergency services . Many years ago in the UK a man had a motor cycle paramedics uniform complete with bike and equipment all bought by him , he used to turn up to RTC's Road traffic collisions . And although you might think this is against the law its not as he never touched a casualty or administered mediacl aid . The freak did this for quite a while , why id dont know? . I myself was at an airshow when i was in the RAF and just to show its not just pilots who get stupid questions from the public . We were at Liecester Air show as fire cover for the air show , and also we'd show interested people around our fire engines . One man came up to me and said your from RAF Cranwell .....reply no im from RAF Wittering ......his reply well your fire truck is from RAF Cranwell ....my repy no is definetly from RAF Wittering trust me i just drove it from there ........his reply no its from Cranwell etc this went on for a bit when finally i got frustrated and said to him ....okay your right we nicked it from RAF Cranwell as our Fire truck broke down on the way but please dont tell them !!!! .......he left at that lol . Also you tend to get people tell you how things work on the fire truck when showing them around , my reaction to this is yes your right and eventually they leave , argue and they stay longer .

Hi Brain32 , Im glad Croatia is now its own country and all is at peace , i spent six months based at Devouja Barracks near Trogir ( Devouja ) not sure if thats spelt right ? . I loved the country and the people , very nice part of the world just wish i'd gone there for different reasons . One day i will return for a holiday and see the beautiful country again regards Nathan

Ah well since time and memorial people have been predicting the end of the world . the Mayans 2012 !!!! well thats a pretty safe bet for some sha man or witchdoctor or priest etc to make from back then , its not like they could get proved wrong as every one from that time is long dead and gone . And even if he or she was right they wouldn't be able to pick up their winnings from the bookies and even if they could whats the poiint its the end of the world . I have seen people with advertisement boards saying the end of the world is now ....and they are always there the next week and the next etc . I guess one day though one of hem is gonna be right , but who would care ? im right im right im .........world ends no one around to care lol .

Wet starts are quite common in jet engines , seen them many a time . My first ever one i saw was a VC-10 cargo plane loaded with Weapons about to take of at my old station . We just happened to be by the threshold when the vc-10 was throttling up to take off when a huge flame shot out of its arse end and the engine made a very strange noise . Nearly pooed myself and was going to get up on the monitor ( foam cannon ) on the fire truck , when an old hand said stop flapping Nath they always do that !!!! , dont you panic unless you see the air crew jump and run from the plane then you can flap . It is caused by an excess of fuel in the jet engine , but generally it just burns out .

Well if i could choose the manner in which i could die , it would have to be after a alcohol drug frenzied sex orgy with lots of nymphet women ......then i could die happy with a smile on my face . Wonder if anyway has ever said that as a final request at a fireing squad and more to the point was the request honoured !!!!! ? . I have only had one moment in my life when i thought i was gonna die but i was quite calm and didnt sink to the bottom of the south Atlantic but made it to shore safe but a little embarrased of making an ass of myself while on lookers on the beach watched it all . I would like to think that theres more after death , be ashame to think thats it . I guess we will not know till one day your numbers up then you will know !!!!!! lets hope for all of us its a long time yet to come

What total madness , how can they get it wrong when you gave then an accurate reading . I mean its not even like they got the decimal point wrong , you could kind of expain their error then by saying its a type error . You think you bill was processed on a friday and some erk wanted to get of to the pub early and thought ' i cant be asked working this one out lets just hit the key pad until i get a series of numbers ........tap tap tap tap tap tap oh £ 2081 yep that will do , and off to the pub !!!! . Well i hope who ever they are that when they got to the pub and ordered their first drink the Barmaid or Barman said that will be £2081 please , its friday i cant be asked working out the price !!!!!! now that would be poetic justice ...........we can but hope

This weeks not been a good week what with British troops shot in Afghanistan by a so called friendly afghan of the ANP . And now this at Fort Hood , its a tragedy . My thoughts to all the family and friends The Mungo

HI allenjb42, Hope you get better soon , you take it easy until your fully recovered All the Best The Mungo

Racindriver1 , Yes although i can only see you face you look loverly to me , and were as another woman my have a smaller butt does she have that Angelic look of yours ? . And anyway beauti is in the eye of the beholder and i think your beautiful . And i have good taste Nathan ps and your a racin driver how cool

Hi Scouse , Well its starting but im not sure of Liverpool doing it though lol , but who knows eh . You be able to catch all the matches over in Australia ? Nathan ps not really a footy fan but you probably got more chance od seeing the matches than me as its nearly all pay per view here

Hi All , Well drink is drink , does it matter what alcohol volume is in it ? . Surely the taste is what matters and not the Volume of Alcohol ? . Unless your on a mission and was late getting out and everyone around you is merry and your playing catch up , then nothing but pure rocket fuel will do . Of course then theres the ratio of how many pints is needed to get me to that loverly merry point / and how many toilet stops , cos as we all know once drinking going to the toilets is like pringles .......once you pop you cant stop , burst the seal and your off every 10 minutes lol . How ever real Ale is great , some thing handed down the generations a tried and tested brew . Something made of undiscribeable substances but or you know is its cloudy . thick and it knocks you socks off . What ever your Drink or how many you have ....as long as it gets you there thats all that matters . ps just try not to make an arse of yourself lol Cheers Nathan

Hi all , Well in the UK not that long ago we had Nation Service which in any other words was conscription . As to wether national service is a good thing i not really sure . Im an ex serviceman myself and did eight years in the Royal Air Force , good times and some bad times . Everyone i worked with joined on their own accord as national service stopped way before my time , so everyone made that choice , not to say some still moaned about being there . I think its nice to have a choice , but as has been said freedom comes at a cost . A cost most people in the UK have no idea of , but im not so sure that compulsary service is a good thing . Some people are not ment for military service , not to say they are any less a person not at all we all have talents and uses . However if push comes to shove and there was a major war like WW2 it may be needed , lets just hope that never happens . Theres already enough tragic loss of life of our service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan . So i dont know , i can understand some where like Isreal haveing nation service as their country is surrounded by enemies and has had to fight many a war in the past out numbered but still won every time , so maybe there is the answer it works for Isreal and many other countries that know conflict around their borders . So maybe conscription or national service or what ever yo want to call it , has it uses in times of troubles but in more peaceful times is not needed . wow ive muttered alot and not really said anything !!! sorry Nathan

Hi Mk2 , You are a star , your work is well appreciated thank you Nathan

Hi , Yes i agree with what you say the media are always looking to make stories sound worse than they are and looking for a scandal to dig there teeth in . If only more of these hacks were prepared to do what Ross Kemp did , actually go out there and be with the troops and see it from there side as no one really knows the real situation out there than the men and women doing the job on the ground . It is incourageing to see the people of Wotton Bassett and many others from else where lineing the streets to pay there respect to the fallen . Also the " Help the Hero's " charity is getting plenty of support . I think other than the media most of the general public support the armed forces out there , after all as an ex serviceman myself i know you dont get to pick your deployments . And wether you agree with the war or not , they are still our people out there doing a job and its still our people that are getting injuried or worse . For all those out there that put the forces down , just remember its your choice as a free nation not to join the forces and to voice your opinion . However just think for a moment , if it wasnt for the Armed Forces would we have this choice ? ( WW2 if we had lost ? ) and thank god there are plenty of people who still join and do what some times can be a thankless task , because it wasnt that long ago that national service was in force . So to those that put the forces down just take a moment and remember that although they may be in Afghanistan or Iraq or the former Yugoslavia or the may other places the Forces go , and wether you agree with the politics behind it all these people when the crunch comes are the ones that protect you and some times give their all . And if your angry or dissagree with a war dont direct it at the armed forces , direct it at politicians as they are the ones that decide these things but dont actually go to these places . Oh and dont forget in peace time the armed forces helped with the fire strikes , the floods and many other incidents . So think on , while the media play their political games just think of what it might be like for a memeber of the armed forces and put yourself in their shoes .....and although maybe you can never really know for real what it must be like just think how lucky you are that you dont have to be in their shoes by your own choice ....a choice which we have as a free nation because men and women in history joined the armed forces and fought for our rights . Nathan

Hi , This is sad news , never met the man although he came to my station some years ago . I read his book and i found it very interesting and the character of the man shone through . I only hope that with the passing of men and women like him that we dont forget the stories and what they went through , as this is so easily done when there isnt a person there to tell you face to face . Shame to see him pass away but at 113 yrs old his led a long life and i think he'd agree a good life . So fair well Henry you may be gone but not forgotten , and if there is a heaven i bet theres a hell of a reunion party going on right now :yes: . Mungo

Hi all , Well both my grandads served during the war , one was a driver as he had diabetise and couldn't be front line . My other grandad was in the Army in Borneo fighting the Japanese Army , he got bayonneted in the stomach at some point by a Japanese soldier and was medi vaced to the UK . After he recovered the Army would not take him back , so he joined the new Royal Air Force Regiment . And eventually ended up doing long range patrols in the desert . He also served in Korea and did many experiments on Christmas Island etc with Nuclear weapons . And was responsible for training in Nuclear enviroment training ( what we call NBC now ) , where he got an over dose of Radiation and had to have a complete blood transfusion . He lived to a ripe old age so i guess radiated food and people are not much different lol . He got to the rank of Warrant officer although he was offered a commission but turned it down ( reasons only known to himself ) . When i joined the RAF as a Firefighter i never thought i'd meet some one that might know him ......as he was a nasty B%^)(*D as a training WO , but no i was wrong . I was doing my CCS course at my base when the SGT called " Paddy " as he wanted to be called , looked at me and said " Whitworth you the son of WO Bob Whitworth " .........me ......ere no grandson ........help !!!!! . Paddy ....he was a Bastard to me in training when i was in basics . At this point i thought .......oh im in a world of poo , but quick thinking i said its okay he was a Bastard to me to ....at which point i got a slap on the shoulder and he said i was alright . Paddy as it turned out was a great bloke and even though he was alot older turned out to be a party animal .....loved the booze ....nice bloke