In that vid mate, all the Halal certification is a scam, raising money to support the enemy!Quote:
Originally Posted by RLI
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In that vid mate, all the Halal certification is a scam, raising money to support the enemy!Quote:
Originally Posted by RLI
7 year jack and counting.
Bomber
Current serving, 17yrs
Soldier & proud
G'day Bomber,Quote:
Originally Posted by Warwick89
Congratulations on your service mate!
Regards,
RLI
G'day Jack,Quote:
Originally Posted by jackwalks
Congratulations on your service mate!
Regards,
RLI
That obs cse is one hell of a beast :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jackwalks
G'day folks,
I was sent this from a US serviceman friend. Takes a few seconds to load; but well worth watching through to the end. Everyone will be touched; but it especially will touch service , ex-service people, and their families.
Lest We Forget.
Pearl Harbor: after the tours have gone.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/MgE2KiP...yer_detailpage
Kind regards,
RLI
I visited Pearl Harbour in 1990. I remember a few young blokes turned up in thongs and shorts, talking and laughing. I wanted to punch them. It's a memorial not a tourist attraction!!!
G'day folks,
Check this out!
$27,500 Rifle Hits Targets at 1,000 Yards
"Now everyone can shoot like a trained marksman. For a price.
A Texas-based applied technology firm has launched new smartgun technology that gives novice shooters the chance to participate in “extreme distance hunting.”
TrackingPoint’s new precision guided firearm technology, XactSystem, allows the shooter to lock onto a target before allowing the gun to fire upon the intended target, much like a fighter jet’s “lock-and-launch” technology
And the firearm can consistently hit a target from over 1,000 yards away, the maker says.
“Think of it like a smart rifle. You have a smart car; you got a smartphone; well, now we have a smart rifle,” CEO Jason Schauble told CNNMoney.
The rifles fitted with the XactSystem technology can accurately shoot from over 1,000 yards, and TrackingPoint claims the company record is shooting a South African wildebeest at 1,103 yards.
The system and bolt-action rifles run from $22,500 to $27,500.
The rifles are WiFi equipped to allow the shooter to record their shot and immediately send it to a tablet or smartphone to view and upload to social media sites."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/12/27...#ixzz2hyLHd800
PS, there is hope yet for Ordnance Corp! lol
Regards,
RLI
G'day fellow current or ex-serving members,
I thought you might like this one!
Regards,
RLI
"A Canadian female libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the Canadian government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter correspondence.
She received back the following reply:
National Defense Headquarters
M Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg.,15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada
"Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.
Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loudly and clearly here in Ottawa . You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called ‘Libertarians Accept Responsibility for Killers' program, or L.A.R.K. for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday.
Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint!
It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter. Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his ‘attitudinal problem’ will help him overcome these character flaws.
Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. Please advise any Jewish friends, neighbors or relatives about your house guest, as he might get agitated or even violent, but we are sure you can reason with him. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up,unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.
Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property thereby having no rights, including refusal of his sexual demands. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will "recommend" as more appropriate attire.
I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of 'respecting his culture and religious beliefs' as described in your letter.
Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember we'll be watching.
Good luck and God bless you,
Cordially,
Gordon O'Connor
Minister of National Defense"
Just made my day reading that, cheers mate
I fear for my goat and donkey than any woman!
G'day mate,Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Thanks for the package! It will now take place in our museum!
Regards,
Paul
Pleasure mate.....another inbound next week. This time for you not the museum. Cold weather gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by RLI
Unions exposed as war saboteurs
• MIRANDA DEVINE
• THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
• NOVEMBER 02, 2013 10:00PM
AS the Abbott government begins to take on union power and corruption, a timely new book reveals the union movement's role in one of the most shameful periods of Australian history.
What the wharfies did to Australian troops - and their nation's war effort - between 1939 and 1945 is nothing short of an abomination.
Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his groundbreaking book, Australia's Secret War, telling the untold story of union bastardry during World War 2.
Using diary entries, letters and interviews with key witnesses, he has pieced together with forensic precision the tale of how Australia's unions sabotaged the war effort, how wharfies vandalised, harassed, and robbed Australian troop ships, and probably cost lives.
One of the most obscene acts occurred in October, 1945, at the end of the war, after Australian soldiers were released from Japanese prison camps. They were half dead, starving and desperate for home. But when the British aircraft-carrier HMS Speaker brought them into Sydney Harbour, the wharfies went on strike. For 36 hours, the soldiers were forced to remain on-board, tantalisingly close to home. This final act of cruelty from their countrymen was their thanks for all the sacrifice. Colebatch coolly recounts outrage after outrage.
There were the radio valves pilfered by waterside workers in Townsville which prevented a new radar station at Green Island from operating. So when American dive bombers returning from a raid on a Japanese base were caught in an electrical storm and lost their bearings, there was no radio station to guide them to safety. Lost, they ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all 32 airmen.
Colebatch quotes RAAF serviceman James Ahearn, who served at Green Island, where the Australians had to listen impotently to the doomed Americans' radio calls: "The grief was compounded by the fact that had it not been for the greed and corruption on the Australian waterfront such lives would not have been needlessly lost."
Almost every major Australian warship was targeted throughout the war, with little intervention from an enfeebled Prime Minister Curtin. There was the deliberate destruction by wharfies of vehicles and equipment, theft of food being loaded for soldiers, snap strikes, go-slows, demands for "danger money" for loading biscuits.
Then there were the coal strikes which pushed down coal production between 1942 and 1945 despite the war emergency.
There were a few honourable attempts to resist union leaders, such as the women working in a small arms factory in Orange, NSW, who refused to strike and "pelted union leaders with tomatoes and eggs".
This is a tale of the worst of Australia amid the best, the valour and courage of our soldiers in New Guinea providing our last line of defence against Japanese, only to be forced onto starvation rations
and to "go easy on the ammo" because strikes by the wharfies back home prevented supplies from reaching them.
A planned rescue of Australian PoWs in Borneo late in the war apparently had to be abandoned, writes Colebatch, because a wharf strike in Brisbane meant the ships had no heavy weapons. There was no act too low for the unionists. For instance, in 1941, hundreds of soldiers on board a ship docked in Freemantle entrusted personal letters to wharfies who offered to post them in return for beer money. The letters never arrived.
At one point in 1942 a US Army colonel became so frustrated at the refusal of Townsville wharfies to load munitions unless paid quadruple time, he ordered his men to throw the unionists into the water and load the guns themselves.
In Adelaide, American soldiers fired sub-machine guns at wharfies deliberately destroying their aircraft engines by dropping them from great heights. Australian soldiers had to draw bayonets to stop the same Adelaide wharfies from stealing food meant for troops overseas.
You will read this book with mounting fury. Coelbatch offers various explanations for the treasonous behaviour of the unions. Many of the leaders were Communists obsessed with class warfare. Fervent "identity politics" led them to believe they were victims and servicemen and women were "puppets of capitalism whose lives were of no consequence". Contrary to popular belief, strikes and sabotage continued, even after the Soviet Union became an ally, writes Colebatch, who contends that the Australian Left may have wanted to undermine the military in preparation for revolution after the war.
Whatever the reasons for the defective morality of those unionists who sabotaged our war effort, the traitors have never been brought to account. This story has been largely suppressed for 70 years because Labor and the Left have successfully controlled the narrative of history.
No more, thanks to Colebatch.
That is an excellent post Paul. If that happened today, the order for fixed bayonets......our lads at the lower level would have decisively dealt with it.
Just a bit of disgusting news over here, a bar / grill south of Perth kicked a serving digger in full uniform and medals displayed out for selling poppies with incorrect paperwork ON Remembrance Day of all days FFS.
Some people should be hung, drawn, quartered etc their parent need a licence to breed. Who in their rind mind would something like.
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I'd like to think nothing like that could happen today Paul, but as we well know, greed knows no bounds.
Makes me sick just reading those few instances.
just thought i would add what a wanker tony abbot is not turning up to the remembrance day ceremony, first ever pm not to, what does that show about the bloke.
His priorities are elsewhere. Looking forward to his promises on dfrdb...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
Unfortunately they still sabotage, just in a different guise these days
There was talk in 2009 of abolishing Vet Affairs altogether, so sad to see Rudd crying at his farewell speech....NOT, how much $$$$$ will he get compared to the vets???
21 years and still going. Don't swing to many spanners these days though, got a computer instead.
Where abouts mate? ALTC!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian2011
Army sacks six members of 'Jedi Council'
DateNovember 15, 2013 - 5:50AM
The Army has sacked six soldiers at the centre of the notorious "Jedi Council", whose members swapped grossly demeaning emails about women they'd slept with.
Five months after the scandal came to light, the Chief of the Army, Lieutenant-General David Morrison announced in a statement on Thursday night that the ringleaders had been dismissed.
The Jedi Council members circulated video and images of women with whom members of the ring had slept, along with demeaning commentary that included personal information about the women. Police sources have said that other members were challenged to try and have sex with the women.
The women are understood to have been filmed without their knowledge.
Three of the sacked soldiers are still facing possible criminal prosecution by New South Wales police.
Of the 17 main members of the ring - who include several officers - a further seven may also be sacked. The remaining four "have been the subject of, or are facing, administrative sanctions", General Morrison said.
He also revealed that a further 172 soldiers - most of whom are Army members - received at least some of the emails, though appear not to have been directly involved. Disciplinary action is being considered against those soldiers.
General Morrison said that the six soldiers who have been sacked ranged in rank from sergeant to major and include both Regular Army members and reservists.
"The Australian Army is overwhelmingly an organisation of 44,000 talented and professional men and women, who serve their country with pride and distinction," General Morrison said.
"The standard of behaviour we expect of our serving members is clear."
General Morrison received widespread praise for his palpable anger over the affair, including a steely video presentation in which he told sexist male soldiers to "get out" of the Army.
However Defence has also faced questions over the length of the investigation. As Fairfax Media reported in June, Defence first learnt of the Jedi Council in September 2010, but General David Morrison and other top brass, as well as then-Defence Minister Stephen Smith, were not informed until April this year.
The Jedi Council episode is one of a string of embarrassing scandals for Defence, which has undergone major reviews into its internal culture in the wake of the Skype affair of 2011.
Defence announced last week that Army cadet Daniel McDonald - who filmed himself having sex with a fellow cadet and streamed it via Skype to his friends - had been kicked out of the Australian Defence Force Academy
There is no place in defence for this behaviour, the CDF is to be commended for his stance. The recent Navy incident of hazing I'm sure will be dealt with accordingly.
currently ALTC, but not for long
At least you won't have to pay those captive fuel prices in Wodonga when you move...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian2011
G'day folks,
Do any of our ex/or current defence members have any photos they would like to share with the forum ie; recruit training photos, (how we looked when we first started out) photo's through your journey whilst serving.
PS, Good luck and lets have a bit of fun and have a laugh how we looked when we were younger! (NP99 "sir" no Jedi night photos please!)
Regards,
RLI
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Whilst it's wrong to think like this, I kinda expect it from the youngin's but sergeant to major, I gotta wonder where it went wrong.
I'll dig up my band camp pics...Quote:
Originally Posted by RLI
Sadly not true mate, but funny anyway.....
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/medi...1226567756660#
Hahaha love it,
Army here.
Good to see mate...Quote:
Originally Posted by fxst78
THE FINAL INSPECTION
The soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
'Step forward now, you soldier,
How shall I deal with you ?
Have you always turned the other cheek ?
To My Church have you been true?'
The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
'No, Lord, I guess I ain't.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can't always be a saint.
I've had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny,
That wasn't mine to keep...
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.
And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand.
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
'Step forward now, you soldier,
You've borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell.'
Author Unknown~
G'day folks,
I forgot to post this up on Christmas Day!
PS, I hope you all enjoy this one!
Kind Regards,
RLI
T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE,
MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.
...
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY,
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO,
IN THIS HOME, DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES,
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT,
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR,
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED,
A TRUE BRITISH SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO,
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALISED THE FAMILIES,
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS,
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE,
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM,
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER,
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE,
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT BROUGHT,
A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES,
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED,
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS.."
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL,
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED,
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE,
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR,
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."