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Remember your training SIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!! loose lips sink ships! lol
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PMC
Thats why I joined the RAAF... no one has figured out how to sink a RAAF base.
Plus sending the Officers out to fight while the troops head to the boozer makes a lot of sense to me.
Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
With the Centenary coming up, has anyone seen any ANZAC shirts? Most of the ones I have seen seem to only have the Australian flag on them...
2006 Ser IV GU, 6.5l TD V8 Chev with 4spd Auto, 3in Lift, 35in Kumho's, 12000lb winch, Nissan snorkel, Diff breathers, lightbar + Lightforce HD spots on roofrack. Built to go bush.
Did anyone watch "Footprints of War"? From the promo: Footprints of War explores two antagonistic logics: one of strength and conflict versus the logic of life and balance. Beyond the physical scars left on a landscape, our planet is confronted by serious side effects of modern warfare that are more than just expensive to clean up. What does a war mean to our ecosystem and how is the global eco-balance affected? Can a modern war be eco-friendly? What does it mean when a military machinery is put into motion, what resources are needed and how much are used? This documentary looks back at our world's history, starting with the battlefields of World War I as one of the birthplaces of modern ecocide.
I watched most of this doco in amazement as it explained exactly how much 'war junk' lies below the waves on the ocean floors around the world...enough to destroy the world several times over according to the show's narrator. Whilst the munitions are indeed related largely to 20th Century military adventure, it was the governments and military chiefs of the day that signed off on ocean disposal; I presume under the human failing of if it is not seen then it is not a problem and, if it is to become a problem, then keep it hidden long enough to become someone else's lot in life.
The documentary is an alarming wake-up call as decades on the ocean floor have corroded the millions of munitions containers and shells to the point of causing leakage which, as the show explains, will impact not only on the environment but also on the sea life - sea life that is also caught for human consumption though, as the doco states, there has yet to be any serious study into the effects on sea life by chemical weapons (does your box of Birdseye Fish Fingers glow in the dark???).
U.S. Congress has recently began to focus on the U.S. Military and its illegal dumping of chemical weapons and hazardous nuclear waste (which had been conducted up until the early 1970's before being banned by US law and international treaty) with much of dumping being done off foreign shores (the countries were never notified apparently) with some site locations still highly classified and the issue largely ignored with nothing to mitigate the risk nor has little consideration been given to the long-term effects of such dumping other than the fact that it is now recognised as an environmental issue.
Discarded munitions are constantly being found by trawlers dredging the ocean floors or surveying for new oil platforms or making way for communications pipelines. The doco showed period footage, taken shortly after WW2, of allied military personnel casually rolling countless numbers of artillery shells off the sides of landing craft into the ocean - I doubt they thought about the implications decades down the track - after all, they had just won a world war that had killed upwards of 50 million lives...will the ticking time bombs that continue to leak on the ocean floors eventually cost more???
If anybody is interested, the link below contains publically available information on Sea Dumping in Australia available at: http://www.hydro.gov.au/n2m/dumping/dumping.htm
The AHS show UXO areas (ammunition, boats, chemical etc) on nautical charts where possible.
It is quite amazing how much stuff is out there.
2006 GUIV DX 4.2 TDI Ute, Bullbar with Warn winch, Narva round spotties, scrub bars and side steps, Snorkel, Dual Battery system, Waeco fridge, 2 x Narva spotties an 80W solor panel on roof, Custom tray, 3" Redback exhaust, Bluemax 2 - EGT/Boost Oil press/Temp and dual volt gauges, Lifted, front locked and fully loaded...... If you can't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!
Yep I watched it and I was also amazed!
Some crazy statistics.
Enough cyanide to kill every human on the planet dumped in rusting barrels in the sea between Ireland and England.
In the Iraq war the American army alone used the same amount of fuel as was used in the entire ww2, every year.
%6 of industry over the entire history of man has been for warfare
Originally Posted by Stropp
2006 GUIV DX 4.2 TDI Ute, Bullbar with Warn winch, Narva round spotties, scrub bars and side steps, Snorkel, Dual Battery system, Waeco fridge, 2 x Narva spotties an 80W solor panel on roof, Custom tray, 3" Redback exhaust, Bluemax 2 - EGT/Boost Oil press/Temp and dual volt gauges, Lifted, front locked and fully loaded......
1999 GU 4500 dual fuel
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