Defence Force Members past & present

[Gecko17]

LOL! I still miss my SLR!

[NP99]

Yeah, I had a spare gas plug, I could never get it clean enough for inspections

[PMC]

G'day fellow ex-or current serving members,

Unfortunately, I have been suffering from PTSD this week after viewing a very brutal and graphic video of a young Iraqi soldier being skinned alive by the terrorist group ISIS.

I was sent to visit Professor Bryant the Director of the Traumatic Stress Clinic of Psychology at Prince of Wales hospital on Wednesday afternoon for over an hour. He was absolutely shocked with what I told him and when he read my military medical docs file and especially about the skinning alive of young Iraqi soldier.

Professor Bryant was extremely sympathetic and understood exactly why I was suffering nightmares from the screams of that young Iraqi soldier. He prescribe me ASAP with 150mg of Effexor antidepressant medication.

Professor Bryant was further horrified that I have slipped beneath the both the Army and DVA radar because of what I have seen and been through during my life.

I informed him that there is a lot of ex-soldiers and current serving soldiers that have suffered the same fate as myself and they to have not been treated as they believe that they were copping well with there PTSD caused by their tragic experiences. Poor ole Professor Bryant was even more dismayed when I conveyed this info to him.

I was advised by Professor Bryant that he wanted to start me ASAP on psychotherapy, I jokily informed him that he was wasting his time, as I am a farked out unit, however, I said if he wanted to, that he could try what ever he wanted, apart from gay sex. (These bloody Psych's fail to have a sense of humour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

After filling out various questionnaires, I start psychotherapy on Tuesday afternoon. Effectively, I walk from the hyperbaric medicine unit to the farking nut-house about 50 meters away.

PS, I will keep you all informed as to what is involved with this treatment as I am very sceptical about Psychiatrists.

Regards,

PMC

[growler2058]

Good luck with it all mate

[PMC]

G’day fellow soldiers,

Over the last two weeks our great nation has lost two of its finest Warriors and my fellow Commando's have lost another two “Brothers in Arms”

SPECIAL Forces soldier Todd Chidgey.

Lance Corporal Chidgey, 29, was born in Gosford in NSW and joined the Australian Defence Force in 2006. He is the 41st Digger lost in Afghanistan. It was a measure of Lance Corporal Chidgey skill as a soldier that he made rare direct entry into the elite No 2 Commando Regiment from civilian life.

He was on his seventh tour of Afghanistan when he was found dead in the Australian headquarters at the main coalition base in the Afghan capital.

An official statement from the ADF said Lance Corporal Chidgey was a consummate professional who earned the respect of his *comrades through dedication and hard work.

The statement said his colleagues in the regiment described him as “a brilliant bloke to know and to work with, who was loyal to the core and would do anything for his mates”.

Defence Minister David Johnston said Lance Corporal Chidgey was a fantastic commando. “He was a great soldier and he is an enormous loss to the nation,” Senator Johnston said. “Every Australian soldier who has died in Afghanistan has made a difference in preventing that country from becoming a haven for international terrorists,” he said.

SPECIAL Forces soldier Sgt Gary Francis.

THE elite soldier killed during an Australian Defence Force training exercise in the New Zealand Alps yesterday had summited Mount Everest twice and was one of the world’s best mountain warfare experts.

Gary “Frankie” Francis, from the Sydney-based 2nd Commando Regiment, died during a training activity on Mount Cook. The 44-year-old former Royal Marine was leading a group of 10 commandos on a two-week Mountain and Cold Weather Operations (MACWO) exercise when he plunged 40 metres down a crevasse on the Grand Plateau.

PS, you will never be forgotten.

LEST WE FORGET!

Regards,

PMC

[PMC]

G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,

Unfortunately, the winds of the 'War of Terror are falling upon us once again!

Regards,

PMC


MH17: 'missile launcher' near Russian border

By PETER BAKER, MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK MAZZETTIJULY 18, 2014

As emergency workers search for victims of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, Ukraine releases video it says shows a launcher, minus two missiles, heading towards the Russian border.

While officials are still investigating the chain of events leading to the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday, they pointed to a series of indicators of Russian involvement. Among other things, military and intelligence officials said there was mounting evidence that a Ukrainian military plane shot down three days earlier had been fired upon from inside Russian territory by the same sort of missile battery used to bring down the civilian jet.

WASHINGTON — The United States President Obama stated; Without going into detail about the intelligence I have been shown, Mr. Obama said that the separatists had been armed and trained “because of Russian support.” High-flying aircraft cannot be shot down without sophisticated equipment and training, he added, “and that is coming from Russia.”

He singled out President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, accusing him of waging a proxy war that led to the tragedy. “He has the most control over that situation,” Mr. Obama said, “and so far, at least, he has not exercised it.”


Iraq suicide bomber was Australian, say ISIS fanatics in sickening tribute to ‘Abu Bakr al Australian’
JULY 18, 2014

THE suicide bomber at the centre of one of Iraq’s most recent bloody tragedies was an Australian, according to the brutal fanatics wreaking havoc across the nation.

The man, who killed at least ten people by detonating his bomb belt near a Shia mosque, was named as Abu Bakr al Australi in a statement by fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group ISIS.

MUSLIMS MUST OBEY ME: Fiendish ISIS leader’s call to arms

The group said the man was an “emigrant” and also dubbed him a “brother” and a “knight” following the slaughter at a Baghdad market on Thursday.

It appears from the ISIS statement that the man from Sydney, Australia had converted to Islam and possibly adopted the name Abu Bakr al.

This is the first suicide mission by an Australian in Iraq.

The attack comes at a time of increased concern over the involvement of Australians in the horrific jiahd, or holy war, being waged across Iraq and Syria. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop today warned how such men are becoming “radicalised”.

The Australian newspaper has done a number of exposes on fanatics like convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who is among the Aussies believed to have carried out bloody, battlefield executions amid the carnage.

EXECUTIONER TAUNTS AUTHORITIES: How Khaled Sharrouf fled

ISIS — also known as the Islamic State, which sums up its goal of establishing a Muslim empire — has been surging through Iraq, driving back government forces and their Shia militia allies and mercilessly meting out executions and punishments.

It is also fighting in Syria — not just against President Bashar al Assad’s forces but also against more moderate rebels also battling the regime.
The Australian’s attack also wounded around 21 people. It was one of two bombings which killed at least 17 people in Iraq on Thursday.

The Sunni militant offensive that has overrun much of northern and western Iraq in the past five weeks has caused a spike in violence as fighting rages on new battlefronts across the country.

At the same time, smaller scale attacks — some of them targeting checkpoints, others hitting purely civilian areas — remain a facet of daily life.

The al Australian attack struck Baghdad’s Shorja Market, an open air emporium that is one of the most popular places for residents to buy foodstuffs, clothes and electronics. Over the past decade, it has been a frequent target for bombings.

DEATH HIDDEN ON A WOODEN CART

A police officer said a bomb hidden on a wooden cart exploded near a Shiite mosque in the market, killing at least ten people and wounding 21. A medical official in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility and a military spokesman said an initial investigation indicated the explosion was indeed a suicide attack and not a roadside bomb.

Shopkeepers in the market appeared to support that statement. They reported seeing a suspicious man trying to get into the mosque right before the explosion occurred. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

Baghdad has been on edge since the Sunni militant blitz led by the Islamic State extremist group seized the northern city of Mosul, vowing to push south to the capital.

The city has seen several small scale bombings in recent weeks, but it has so far been free of the large, coordinated attacks that plagued it in the run-up to April elections.

The second attack came in the town of Taji, some 20 kilometres north of the capital, where a suicide bomber rammed his car into a military checkpoint, killing four soldiers and three civilians, a police officer said. Thirteen people were wounded.

A medical official in a hospital in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Kazimiyah confirmed the casualty figures.

PS, folks you should be worried by the above new report!

Regards,

PMC

[PMC]

G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,

While the world is mourning the tragic shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on Thursday, ISIS started religious cleansing and is now the real threat to world peace.

Christians flee Mosul after ISIS ultimatum to convert or leave

AFP, Mosul
Friday, 18 July 2014

Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave or face death, the country’s Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said.

“Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Arbil,” in the neighboring autonomous region of Kurdistan, Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP. “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”

Witnesses said messages telling Christians to leave the city by Saturday or face execution were blared through loudspeakers from the city’s mosques Friday.

A statement dated from last week and purportedly issued by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group that took over the city and large swathes of Iraq during a sweeping offensive last month warned Mosul’s Christians they should convert, pay a special tax, leave or face death.

“We were shocked by the distribution of a statement by the Islamic State calling on Christians to convert to Islam, or to pay unspecified tribute, or to leave their city and their homes taking only their clothes and no luggage, and that their homes would then belong to the Islamic State,” Sako said.

The patriarch, who is one of the most senior Christian clerics in Iraq, and residents contacted by AFP said Islamic State militants had in recent days been tagging Christian houses with the letter N for “Nassarah”, the term by which the Koran refers to Christians.

The statement, which was seen by AFP, said “there will be nothing for them but the sword” if Christians reject those conditions.

Last Update: Friday, 18 July 2014 KSA 21:34 - GMT 18:34

PS, these farkers need to be destroyed before we have a similar situation over the years to come in both Australia and Indonesia.

Regards,

PMC

[NP99]

Welcome to the ranks of certified crazy mate....

[PMC]

G'day fellow soldiers and Defence Force Personnel,

The latest intell regarding the downing of flight MH17.

Regards,

PMC


BUSTED! Russia caught red-handed editing MH17 info

Saturday, 19 July 2014 17:03

THE Russian government has allegedly been busted editing a Wikipedia entry on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster to blame Ukraine.

A Twitter bot which monitors edits made on the site by Russian government IP addresses picked up the changes which were made on a page listing civil aviation accidents, the UK’s Telegraph reported.

The original entry stated that the plane was shot down “by terrorists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic with Buk system missiles, which the terrorists received from the Russian Federation”.

It was changed to read: “the plane [flight MH17] was shot down by Ukrainian soldiers”.

The Twitter bot issued this alert:

It translates to: “Wikipedia article List of aircraft accidents in civil aviation has been edited by RTR [another name for VGTRK]”.

Intercepted phone calls

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reportedly released recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian military intelligence officers and members of terrorist groups that took place about 20 minutes after the crash.

One call was apparently made by Igor Bezler, who the SBU says is a Russian military intelligence officer and leading commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Igor Bezler: “We have just shot down a plane. Group Minera. It fell down beyond Yenakievo (Donetsk Oblast).”

Vasili Geranin, a colonel in the main intelligence department Russian Federation armed forces then asks: “Pilots. Where are the pilots?”

Bezler replies: “Gone to search for and photograph the plane. Its smoking.”

A second call was between militants nicknamed “Major” and “Greek” about 40 minutes later.

“It’s 100 per cent a passenger (civilian) aircraft,” Major is recorded as admitting that he had seen no weapons on site. “Absolutely nothing. Civilian items, medicinal stuff, towels, toilet paper.”

Bizarre account

A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a bizarre version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash - suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off.

The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that “a significant number of the bodies weren’t fresh,” adding that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.

Nationalities of victims

Malaysia Airlines has released a new list of the nationalities of passengers who lost their lives on MH17. It lists 27 Australian lives lost — while the number according to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is 28, including a dual-citizen.

• Netherlands: 189
• Malaysia: 44
• Australia: 27
• Indonesia: 12
• UK: 9
• Belgium: 4
• Germany: 4
• Philippines: 3
• Canada: 1
• New Zealand: 1

Four passengers’ nationalities have not yet been verified.

[NP99]

The best coa for Russia would be to apologise and seek redemption.....not going to happen though!