billd766

The Army is NOT evil. Why not blame the politicians who send them to other countries in the first place.

And for the greater glory (or not) of the RTA.

I have a few you can have, but make sure that he pays for the postage up front.

If it is such a good job, why don't YOU sign up and take it on. Then YOU can go home in the morning and explain to your wife that you are going on deployment, but you don't know where or when, or even IF you you will be home again. If you are lucky you may have time to visit your child's school to say goodbye to them. People who have no idea what they are talking about really annoy me. .

Stop your whining about things that you have no idea what you are talking about. When you used to work in the UK did you move to other places every couple of years? In my 25 years of service, the longest I ever stayed in the same place was just over 3 years and the shortest was less than 2 years. Most of the time I had no choice in where I was sent. That was from 1960 to 1984 and I believe it is worse now. It not only affect the serviceman or servicewoman but their wives and children. And YES, they pay their taxes and NO they don't, in your words of ignorance, scrounge from the lower orders . Most of them come from the lower orders as you so quaintly and erroneously put it. Many of them work unsocial hours, do shift work and are paid NO extra for doing that, are on call 24/7 and are expected to put themselves in danger, so that whiners like you can sleep safely and whine about how hard you are done by.

IMHO I think that it is more of a case of a person with no ideas and no experience trying to save money with no forethought of the side effects.

The mere fact that he was trying to murder the king and many others is irrelevant to the topic then.

I agree with you. Why must it be a general, army or police in the first place. It should be a sportsman or a sportswoman who has actually achieved something in the international sporting world, and is recognised as an international sporting star.

He is 80 years old (the same age as me) and I retired at age 65. Why didn't he quit while he was ahead. If he can't afford food the cut back and live simply, as most other people do when they get older.

IIRC it was old Adolf who said something like guns before butter, but I can't find the quote on the internet. Found it. It was actually "Uncle Herman". “Guns before butter” was a slogan used by the Nazis to describe their policy of prioritizing military goods over civilian goods in preparation for war. The phrase was popularized by Hermann Göring, a Nazi leader, in a 1936 speech in Hamburg. Göring said, “guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat”.

And neither can you.

quote "What a hopeless farçe all this is". You are almost correct, apart from the easily forgotten fact that have been NO wars in Europe for the last 79 years. OTOH, Russia only managed to keep its grip on the territory it held from 1945 until the 1980s. Under Putin however, Russia is desperately trying to annex those territories back, starting with the Ukraine.

Great idea. Kill 80 million people and where will the radio active fall out go after nuking Iran? It will kill millions more people and make parts of the world uninhabitable for years to come. What will the USA allies think about that, especially if the radio active clouds head their way? Where will the oil that powers the rest of the world come from if the Arabian Gulf is closed? Do you truly think that other Muslim states will simply let it happen without retaliation in some way or other. Are you looking to start WW3?

And somewhere in that area is the casualty and the first rescue crew to find him. Nice try but no cigar.

So how big an area is needed to lift a stretchered casualty and a crewman through a treeline that maybe 30 or 40 metres high and which tree would the casualty be under? If you are going to use a helicopter for a mission like that you need at least 3 or 4 fully trained crews and at least 2 dedicated helicopters for the task, and who are familiar with the area. The alternative is the risk of losing a helicopter and its crew and the casualty. When I worked on 22 Sqn air/sea rescue, each flight had 2 helicopters, 4 aircrews and 3 ground crews who were available 24/7/365.

Proof is always a good thing to have for the prosecution. Whether she is innocent or guilty, I have no idea and unless anybody was at the court all the time that she was on trial, I doubt if anybody else knows either. The judge made his opinion on the evidence brought before him in a legal court, NOT in the court of the internet social justice.

It would be nice if you could answer a simple yes/no question with a simple yes/no answer. But he is still an Israeli citizen, Yes or no? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=can+palestinians+hold+a+passport&sca_esv=43a9cf8e007740e6&sxsrf=ADLYWIIrBNYSNkzkt2KjeURwJ0uEPeaAsQ%3A1731034199056&source=hp&ei=V3wtZ_o06r7Q8Q_M2LGwBQ&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZy2KZxeWjFF8WEQQVRKwtModHZzwTJ31&oq=Can+Palestinians+hold+a&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhdDYW4gUGFsZXN0aW5pYW5zIGhvbGQgYSoCCAAyBhAAGBYYHkjUvAFQAFjwiAFwAHgAkAEAmAHUAaABzxyqAQYwLjIyLjG4AQHIAQD4AQGYAhegAoMewgIMECMYgAQYExgnGIoFwgIEECMYJ8ICBxAAGIAEGBPCAgkQABiABBgTGArCAggQABiABBjLAZgDAJIHBjAuMjEuMqAH5IoB&sclient=gws-wiz It is considered one of the lowest ranking passports in the world. Palestinian passport holders have visa-free access to only 35 destinations including Sri Lanka, Dominica, and the Seychelles. There are 193 destinations for which a Palestinian passport holder requires to obtain a visa prior to traveling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law#:~:text=While pre-1948 Palestinian Arab,Strip are largely considered stateless. While pre-1948 Palestinian Arab residents of the former mandate and their descendants who remained living in Israel were granted Israeli citizenship in 1980, those resident in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are largely considered stateless.

My round trip is about 140km and I usually combine it with a bulk shop on the same day. I also find the Immigration staff at the Kamphaeng Phet Immigration are farang friendly and very helpful.

The next thing needed is to get rid of ALL the surplus generals.

IMHO a helicopter could have been quicker, assuming that a helicopter was available and a landing area could be cleared in time. I suspect that you would need an area about 20 or 30 metres wider than the span of the rotor blades to be on the safe side. A Bell 212 has a rotor span of 14.63 metres so you would need to clear an area of perhaps 35 to 45 metres in diameter and that will take some time. Alternatively the helicopter could hover above the tree line and winch the casualty up, which would require less clearance but it would still take time and a well trained rescue helicopter crew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Army_Aviation_Center Helicopters in the Thai military. Thailand does not seem to have a helicopter Air/Sea rescue service. The army do have helicopters, but I am not sure if they have dedicated and trained rescue crews available.

I agree, or how else would they get a "free" holiday and spending money?

But he is still an Israeli citizen, Yes or no?

When I was growing up in the UK during the 1940s and 1950s, oil was something you put in the engine of a car. Butter was for spreading on bread and margarine was for pastry and baking. My Mum used to fry and roast with pork or beef lard as the dripping went on bread or toast, and it was rare to see any fat people. Sugar was used mainly in tea and sometimes in pastry. Food was simple, basic and filling, and all the kids burnt off their energy playing in the streets or up on the "common" land until the street lights (mostly gas back then) came on. meal times were when your stomach alarm went off, If you were late for a meal, it was either in the oven keeping warm, you ate it cold or went hungry. Even though my Mum would tell me what time dinner would be, it made little difference as I didn't have a watch anyway. Take away food was fish and chips once a week and we had to walk a mile each way and stand in a queue to get it. And that was exotic fast food. No home delivery by Grab etc, you either went and got it yourself, or went without and ate bread and dripping. There was always a lot of that in the larder.

Thank you.

If you were referring to me, thank you for pointing out the obvious. I would never have known that. My Thai wife and my Thai son have never pointed that out to me. Nor have they pointed out that we live in a Thai village in rural Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand and have done for over 20 years. Nor did my wife point out that I/we lived in Bangkok, Thailand where I was working during 1993, 1994 to 1997, 2001 to 2004 when we moved here after the house was built and our son (now at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University) Thailand was born. I must have gone partially blind for the last 31 years.