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1 hour ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

He’s right though, no group should be respected en masse.

Thing is like you get someone who’s (for example) been in the marines for 15 years and there’s a good chance they’re  canny crack with some good tales. But you get people who used to be in the TA putting ‘proud veteran’ on their social media profiles. Respect where it’s due and all that but it’s just something else that’s been weaponised now 

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52 minutes ago, Alex said:

Thing is like you get someone who’s (for example) been in the marines for 15 years and there’s a good chance they’re  canny crack with some good tales. But you get people who used to be in the TA putting ‘proud veteran’ on their social media profiles. Respect where it’s due and all that but it’s just something else that’s been weaponised now 

Oh aye you get some arseholes who use it instead of being an actual decent human being.

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:lol:

Ive met some absolute whoppers who loved to bang on about their “service” and expected everyone to love them for it, and they were invariably mechanics or admin. 
 

Conversely, one of the blokes who had a huge  impact on me as a young 17yr old shaver working at the Calvert Trust was a former SBS and Marines bloke ( he’d only ever admit to being a Marine initially but he eventually did say he’d been in the Boats for a spell ) 
Nicest, most chilled bloke you could possibly meet, intelligent, considerate and had an almost zen-like calm about him. 
 

 

The whoppers were very much in the majority mind :lol:

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5 hours ago, Alex said:

Thing is like you get someone who’s (for example) been in the marines for 15 years and there’s a good chance they’re  canny crack with some good tales. But you get people who used to be in the TA putting ‘proud veteran’ on their social media profiles. Respect where it’s due and all that but it’s just something else that’s been weaponised now 

My impression is that people who’ve been in serious combat don’t tend to discuss it with civilians, even their own family. I’m not talking about the craic of army life, more the reality of front line action.  That’s what you hear about veterans, unlike TA knobheads who are more like army groupies - I’m sure there are plenty like Gareth from the Office in real life.

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Is his aviation partners the airfix Lancaster bombers, hurricanes, spitfires and stukas he plays with when he visits his mam's and tells her he's just looking for something in his old bedroom. 

 

".....And here comes the Lancaster swooping down over the bed mountain and about to land on the rug runway looking majestic with it's new 'Rich energy' logo painted on in painstaking detail by the entrepreneurial genius William Story......Nnnnnneewoww...... listen to those Rolls Royce engines and surely a matter of time before they partner with the energy drink tycoon and....."

 

"Did you say something dear?"

 

"Err, no mum, still looking for an old book."

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