How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Jan 5th 2007, 11:40 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Jan 5th 2007, 11:42 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Yes.
But to give the Krauts and Turks their due, it was extremely well defended. I think the Allies would have been hard pressed to take it, even without a cock-up.
But to give the Krauts and Turks their due, it was extremely well defended. I think the Allies would have been hard pressed to take it, even without a cock-up.
Jan 5th 2007, 11:42 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Jan 5th 2007, 11:43 pm
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Jan 5th 2007, 11:44 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Sounds like an inside job.
Incidentally, does anyone know how the UK army managed to lose a bunch of pistols?
Wonder no more, for the culprits have been found:
Three soldiers have been jailed and thrown out of the Army after admitting charges connected to a plot to sell guns smuggled out of Iraq.
L/Cpl Ross Phillips, 22, and Pte Shane Pleasant, 26, were both sent to prison for over five years after admitting possessing a prohibited pistol.
L/Cpl Ben Whitfield, 24, was jailed for two years and eight months for trying to pervert the course of justice.
The soldiers were from the 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment.
They admitted their role in the gun smuggling plot at a court martial hearing at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.
A fourth defendant, Pte Robert Marlow, 22, was ordered to serve six months in an Army detention centre after admitting trying to pervert the course of justice.
Beeb.
Incidentally, does anyone know how the UK army managed to lose a bunch of pistols?
Wonder no more, for the culprits have been found:
Three soldiers have been jailed and thrown out of the Army after admitting charges connected to a plot to sell guns smuggled out of Iraq.
L/Cpl Ross Phillips, 22, and Pte Shane Pleasant, 26, were both sent to prison for over five years after admitting possessing a prohibited pistol.
L/Cpl Ben Whitfield, 24, was jailed for two years and eight months for trying to pervert the course of justice.
The soldiers were from the 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment.
They admitted their role in the gun smuggling plot at a court martial hearing at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.
A fourth defendant, Pte Robert Marlow, 22, was ordered to serve six months in an Army detention centre after admitting trying to pervert the course of justice.
Jan 5th 2007, 11:46 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Jan 5th 2007, 11:47 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
I once saw a man shoot himself in the leg with a glock trying to swat a wasp. Personally I'd rather get stung by the wasp.
Jan 5th 2007, 11:49 pm
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Jan 5th 2007, 11:53 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
He was a policeman at my shooting club, but I don't know if he was Australian, far too much screaming going on to work out his accent. Here's another one for you, same club different day...Man has a .50 calabre chrome plated auto like the one robocop had, fires at the target and the gun is so powerfull it hits the end of the range and bounced all the way back to slice the bridge of his nose off and take out his contact lens! We had to wear glasses from that day on.
Jan 5th 2007, 11:56 pm
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Jan 5th 2007, 11:59 pm
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Re: How did the Oz army lose 6 anti tank rocket launchers?
Theft is possible from any organisation, even the Army, if you have the knowledge and criminal intent. You should take comfort that the crime was detected and action taken against the perpetrators before harm could be done.
Badgeisback, why not attempt selection for the SASR (Australian SAS) and SAS (British SAS) and compare? I do find your comments on the Australian army mildly irritating, I don't slag off Chartered Accountants because I don't have experience of them, perhaps you should follow a similar course.
Arkon, I think Badgeisback was trying to show that bad things happen all over the world, not just here in Australia. I doubt you are on a terrorist hit list, so rest easy about the theft of weapons OK...
