Thread: bring our boys back or not

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I dont need to talk to anyone.I need no help. I have no load to carry. Whatever you did that almost ruined your life was your problem. I t seems to reflect in a lot of your posts.

Thank you for the assessment, I just hope your attitude doesn't come back to bite you , all the best for the future, Bob
btw, what happened was on active service

not really meant to be derogatory Bob. All our experiences in active service reflect differently upon one another. Anzac day coming up.....time to reflect upon those who have suffered as a result of war.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Explain how that is different to voters here?

I read a statement like that and think what a wally. and then i think again and realize that thinking like that is a product of a soft life in Australia. which is in its self why Australia is such a good place.

put simply, you are submissive to who ever has the most power ( perceived or other wise) a god has bore power, or a gang with guns has more power. BUT a god with a gang with guns has absolute power. its simple survival.

the most dangerous time as always is when the natives get news that you are pulling out. IE a new gang will be in charge. so the smart ones will turn on there old mates ( the gang departing) so they can claim to have been supporting the new Gang when they fill the vacuum.

so stuff the moral argument as we may see it because they do not. we can debate morals they are just thinking about survival.

and remember this is only one of 3 places where a British army was eliminated ( one survivor)
also remember the British returned and leveled Kabul. now this may have been just a few decades ago but unlike us other people have longer memory's.

Lastly, it is good for Australia. Like the UK and northern Ireland a few years ago, the ADF boys ( and girls) get to play for real. some cut it some leave ether way we end up with a better DF.

Originally Posted by p38arover

The wife of a friend of mine has been to Iraq several times to do counselling of troops (dunno about Afghanistan) in her role as a psych in the Army. Maybe I should ask her of the affect those paces are having on troops.

sheeesh she would be most of the problem then. have to justify there funding.

keep the boys on task longer say 2 years, chuck in the odd sky pilot.

Mates and confidence, that works not some over paid cow asking questions and bringing back what you shove way down back

Originally Posted by 85 county

sheeesh she would be most of the problem then. have to justify there funding.

keep the boys on task longer say 2 years, chuck in the odd sky pilot.

Mates and confidence, that works not some over paid cow asking questions and bringing back what you shove way down back

I shall have to ask her (and her husband who was a Captain in the Army) — she's a Major (or was the last time I looked) — if there was any value in her work.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I shall have to ask her (and her husband who was a Captain in the Army) — she's a Major (or was the last time I looked) — if there was any value in her work.

or you could ask me, or some one else who has spent 22.3% ( yes i did the maths) of my life on task and loud. and the lack of diggers singing the praises of the PPSS