Chorlton

Yeah but this was a hypothetical question, assuming you had the chance to take one of the three options in the poll (but it had to be one of them). While I'm at it, I guess, lets say the upcoming conflict was justified and absolutely necessary (think 1939). I'd have to go home and fight alongside my people.

gruffbrown

Hypothetically so would I, unless I'd got my citizenship to the US.

cindyabs

I was just correcting the previous observation that mentioned taking 17 year olds. They are exempt except of course if they forge the info.

gruffbrown

Hello night owl

Ray

I will protect the Krispy Kreme donut shop at all cost ...

Yorkieabroad

did you see they'd opened their first UK stores recently? Rentamob went down to the openings to protest about "importing obesity"

Ray

Harrods have been selling them for a few years now ...no protest there ..

Yorkieabroad

wouldn't know - only been once - as a student on the way back from backpacking round europe for a couple of months, nipped in for a swift jimmy, but they wanted 50p for it, so went to "trial' the electric shavers on a 2 month old beard instead. Pretty good, so followed up with a quick trial in the aftershave department. Got to look nice for mummy!!

tony_2003

What's the current age limit for both armies out of curiosity? At 33 I might be past it I reckon.

Bob

for the draft i think it's 26...but if your signed up, you can be called back till your 35

Schnorbitz

I'd draft here. Those Brits are pretty accurate - less chance of a friendly fire hit.

Rushman

Thought you'd like this then to confirm what you said:


"""UK troops furious at Americans for killing another British soldier
Lance Corporal of Horse Steven Gerrard, 33, who was injured in the attack, said the vehicles were all clearly
marked as coalition forces and even had Union flags flying. "He had absolutely no regard for human life,"
he said of the A-10 pilot. "I believe he was a cowboy. He'd just gone out on a jolly."
"You've got an A-10 with advanced technology and he can't use a thermal sight to identify
whether a tank is a friend or foe. It's ridiculous," Gerrard said.
"Combat is what I've been trained for. I can command my vehicle. I can keep it from being attacked.
What I have not been trained to do is look over my shoulder to see whether an American is shooting at me."
He added: "I'm curious about what's going to happen to the pilot. He's killed one of my friends."""


"""March 22nd: Journalist Killed by U.S. 'friendly fire' - 1 dead, 2 missing
World famous Terry Lloyd, 50, has been killed in Iraq and the fate of his two colleagues remains unknown.
Terry Lloyd, ITV's award-winning correspondent, had reported extensively from Iraq, Cambodia, Bosnia
and Kosovo. He will be deeply missed and was known and respected by millions of viewers."""


Read the link below to see why I would go back to fight in the services, BTW this report is the polite version of what really happened.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/671495.stm

What this article doesn't tell you is that f**king idiot Gen. Clark (US) was shortly hauled back to the US and reamed a new arsehole, but of course, they're not going to tell you that are they!!

Thank god, literally, that Gen. Jackson had the sense to see what reaction confronting the Russians would have occurred. There would have been a bloodbath with diabolical consequences all because some gung ho cowboy loast face because he never secured the airport when he should have.
He should've been dishonourably discharged.

paddingtongreen

I see Ray as an American version of the Home Guard

paddingtongreen

Age limits are adjusted to suit need, in wartime.

Rushman

Stupid boy!!!