Thailand's National Anti-Corruption Commission To Probe Purchase Of Pricey Forensic Devices

[animatic]

The RTA has a rap sheet as long as an orang utangs arm. In the last decade their has been 2nd hand subs which they were told were no good for the Gulf of Thjailand, 2nd Hand Chinese tanks that were too heavy for the terrain, war planes that ended on the runaway in bits to keep the other flying. They increased ther own budget by at least 30,000,000 baht just before handing over to a civilian government.

It makes me wince when people keep cackling on about Thaksin. The army has been doing this for half a century with the the permission of the amaat (but if we need a coup you come and sort it out.) Why does any country need 2000 generals when they dont fight anybody. As the man Sae Daeng said my fellow officers are golfers and business men. It time to trim 1,970 generals from the books, and the same % reductions of officers below them, remove all military influence from the senate and politics, stop conscription unless you teach the boys a trade when they are in the army...and on and on. The army needs to be downsized by at least 75%

Have PTP got the stones to do it... After their next election win we may see some of the above

PS. Forgot...it also shoots its own unarmed civilians and foreign press personnel

Well the main reason f ror this is the 'Anual Reshuffle'

where merit means nothing, but place in the pecking order everything.

If people were promoted when they reached a new ability and proven functionality on the job,

not simply an arbitrary anual bump up, this might be less of a problem.

Colonels and generals would retire with pensions, knowing they don't have the skills to rise any further, and there are not enough places for them, the top ranks filled with the competent, not just those who hung on long enough to get the bump up.

But TIT.

As to shooting unarmed civilians, well doing so if that happened, is systematic incompetence at work.

Or as likely someone more amorally corrupt using that to set them up, and thus diminish their power to control political player corruption's long reach.

Edited March 21, 2013 by animatic

[ratcatcher]

I think I've seen that same device in another news photo recently.

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Looks like a table full of porn tips to me, all shapes and sizes.

[AleG]

The RTA has a rap sheet as long as an orang utangs arm. In the last decade their has been 2nd hand subs which they were told were no good for the Gulf of Thjailand, 2nd Hand Chinese tanks that were too heavy for the terrain, war planes that ended on the runaway in bits to keep the other flying. They increased ther own budget by at least 30,000,000 baht just before handing over to a civilian government.

It makes me wince when people keep cackling on about Thaksin. The army has been doing this for half a century with the the permission of the amaat (but if we need a coup you come and sort it out.) Why does any country need 2000 generals when they dont fight anybody. As the man Sae Daeng said my fellow officers are golfers and business men. It time to trim 1,970 generals from the books, and the same % reductions of officers below them, remove all military influence from the senate and politics, stop conscription unless you teach the boys a trade when they are in the army...and on and on. The army needs to be downsized by at least 75%

Have PTP got the stones to do it... After their next election win we may see some of the above

PS. Forgot...it also shoots its own unarmed civilians and foreign press personnel

Wow they increased the budget by 30 Million Baht!

Shocking, absolutely shocking!

By the way, not that it would make any dent on your usual fact free rants... but the subs never happened and there are not 2000 active generals in the Thai Army.

[ratcatcher]

This looks like the sort of thing one can buy at Pantip Plaza for B399

What on earth would Q say?

Edited March 21, 2013 by ratcatcher

[EyesWideOpen]

The RTA has a rap sheet as long as an orang utangs arm. In the last decade their has been 2nd hand subs which they were told were no good for the Gulf of Thjailand, 2nd Hand Chinese tanks that were too heavy for the terrain, war planes that ended on the runaway in bits to keep the other flying. They increased ther own budget by at least 30,000,000 baht just before handing over to a civilian government.

It makes me wince when people keep cackling on about Thaksin. The army has been doing this for half a century with the the permission of the amaat (but if we need a coup you come and sort it out.) Why does any country need 2000 generals when they dont fight anybody. As the man Sae Daeng said my fellow officers are golfers and business men. It time to trim 1,970 generals from the books, and the same % reductions of officers below them, remove all military influence from the senate and politics, stop conscription unless you teach the boys a trade when they are in the army...and on and on. The army needs to be downsized by at least 75%

Have PTP got the stones to do it... After their next election win we may see some of the above

PS. Forgot...it also shoots its own unarmed civilians and foreign press personnel

Wow they increased the budget by 30 Million Baht!

Shocking, absolutely shocking!

By the way, not that it would make any dent on your usual fact free rants... but the subs never happened and there are not 2000 active generals in the Thai Army.

You are not correct, there are not 2000 generals..........There is ONLY 1600 generals, the second highest for any country in the world... :-)

http://studyinthailand.org/forums/topic/10186-thai-military-has-1600-generals-one-thousand-six-hundred/

Made all the more funny by the fact the modern army has never attacked or defended against anybody. Most of their work seems to be involved in engineering coups...lol So given present circumstances, I would think that one general would be sufficient.

Here is a priceless line.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/thailand/army-intro.htm

"The army's top-heavy organizational structure and its role in political affairs also diluted its effectiveness as a conventional combat force."

The sub idea was only stopped when his Royal Masjesty stepped in and politely said the gulf was too shallow....

The role of the military is fascinating here. It is like a group of people who ask for money from the government, and readily receive it because of their long history of coups. Almost like a shakedown on a grand scale. :-)

Edited March 21, 2013 by EyesWideOpen