AlexWignall:
switchlogic:
Bertie is ex Danish Royal Air Force, but he was rude to a Corporal General Major…or something, and got booted out.Little fact for you fact fans, the whole of the Danish military is made from Lego.
Hmm…
You do realise the Danish Military have taken a considerably high proportion of casualties in Afghanistan?
Not quite as funny the Swiss Navy?
W
That’ll be Lego tanks for you
wirralpete:
Little fact for you fact fans, the whole of the Danish military is made from Lego.
what!!! i had a battery ■■■■ up with a group of lego people■■? dammm must have been a good night! 
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They can certainly drink those Lego men, I think it’s the hollow heads
Anyone serve with this nob, his name is WALTER. 
Sugar Ray:
Anyone serve with this nob, his name is WALTER.
I can’t answer for that bloke.
Long before Afghanistan and Iraq got going I attended the church parade in Preston because I thought the Veteren numbers must be dwindling.
After chatting with the small Naval Contigent afterwards it turned out I was the only one who had been to Sea.
A couple had done National Service at various shore depots and were sporting dads/grandads medals and a couple were Sea Cadet instructors or just civvies with a vague naval connection.
I had done nothing special in the mob myself but I didn’t like the idea of people marching about wearing other peoples medals. Getting a round of applause from the general public because it was a nice day out.
I still go to the church parade but I watch from the crowd. Happy to clap the real Veterens who have come back from Afghanistan and Iraq etc as they march past.
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Sugar Ray:
Anyone serve with this nob, his name is WALTER.
He was prosecuted but then appealed and got let off on technicallity. Cant remember the exact details but it was well covered in the press recently.
Sugar Ray:
Anyone serve with this nob, his name is WALTER.
We have a guy with us who could give him a run for his money!
The medals are so easy to get and almost worthless on ebay, it is such a shame when old soldiers have had to sell well deserved medals to afford some heating bills, most of them happy to keep them in a drawer without doing “look at me” parades.
it is the military equivalent of wearing a hiviz on a ferry 
Wheel Nut:
The medals are so easy to get and almost worthless on ebay, it is such a shame when old soldiers have had to sell well deserved medals to afford some heating bills, most of them happy to keep them in a drawer without doing “look at me” parades.it is the military equivalent of wearing a hiviz on a ferry
It is a great shame when people have to sell medals, I agree.
I wouldn’t say it was a “look at me” parade, its more about paying your respects!
In most of my life as part of the military I have never met anybody who prefers to put their well deserved medals in a draw.
Please do not liken us to people who wear hi-viz on ferries!
Does ‘serving’ in the Royal Marine Cadets on the TS Ark Royal count?
skids:
Wheel Nut:
The medals are so easy to get and almost worthless on ebay, it is such a shame when old soldiers have had to sell well deserved medals to afford some heating bills, most of them happy to keep them in a drawer without doing “look at me” parades.it is the military equivalent of wearing a hiviz on a ferry
It is a great shame when people have to sell medals, I agree.
I wouldn’t say it was a “look at me” parade, its more about paying your respects!
In most of my life as part of the military I have never met anybody who prefers to put their well deserved medals in a draw.
Please do not liken us to people who wear hi-viz on ferries!
You have got the wrong end of my swizzle stick. I dont mean time served men and women. I mean people who buy these medals off ebay and wear them on parade, like the photograph shows,
The Walter bloke who was almost jailed is a con man in a uniform. The medals should have a monetary value that gives these brave lads a pension or a nestegg
I mentioned earlier in this thread. I dont wear a poppy but still pay my respects in a different way, not once a year on a Sunday
youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0ZIqoiaUI
This should raise a smile from some on here 
Ha ha, brilliant, I’ll have to pass that one on. That guy in the earlier pic with all the medals apparantly wanted to impress his girlfriend (wonder if she spoke to him like the bird in the cartoon!) he was found out as the range of medals he wore had something like a 50 year range to them (■■■■■■ You will always get the oddball like that, just a shame it makes a mockery of the genuine guys. There’s a lovely old chap lives at the bottom of our street got the MM in Malaya with the SAS, I saw him in a telly programme last year talking about it, he was almost in tears remembering why they gave it to him as he thought he hadn’t done anything. He only saved his section from an ambush and took out a couple of the enemy. I’ve never spoke to him about either of us being in the forces, but a few weeks before Rememberence Day he couldn’t wait to show my Mrs the small SAS badge the regiment had sent him. He didn’t think they would remember him! Franky.
when i first moved into a house with my ex, the girl next door was in her 20’s going out with a bloke in his late 50’s, he was a pub dj, long grey pony tail demin shirt and jeans and drove a clapped out 911. anyway came home one weekend and ex says she was talking to the girl and metioned that i was ex army. girl replies “oh he will get on well with steve, hes ex army in fact he served 20 odd years in the SAS”.
The bloke ignored me for the 2 years we were there, never once said hello was chatty to the ex though what a ■■■!
far as im concered, im bloody proud of the time i done in the artillery and more proud of the group of friends i made from serving. my time might not have been haloing from 10,000 feet in the dead of night to take out a drugs cartel in columbia but i done most of the trouble spots the british army found itself in during the 90’s. i would never ■■■■■■■■ about serving in the elite and hats off to those who have but give me the not so glamarous tours i done with my buddies any day of the week…
4 years RAF. Not my cup of tea. Too many rules. They got no sense of humour. They don’t even like fire.
Only went in the careers office 'cos it was 20 mins to the next bus, it was ■■■■■■■ down an the bus stop roof leaked bad.
Put me PVR in and 6 months later went back on the spanners. Then a couple of weeks after I was out, I’m laid on a cold, wet concrete floor under a Nooteboom, gas axe in one hand, stillsons in t’other, thinking ‘did I really leave that cushy (if not boring) job to do this’ !
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Frankydobo:
That guy in the earlier pic with all the medals apparantly wanted to impress his girlfriend, he was found out as the range of medals he wore had something like a 50 year range to them ([zb]). You will always get the oddball like that, just a shame it makes a mockery of the genuine guys.
“Walter” Day’s medals had been bought for him by his younger wife, who believed he was a much-decorated war hero whose medals had been lost in action or sold. She set about replacing them “out of kindness”, buying from veterans and online dealers.
But it was all a charade. Apart from attending an 18-month Junior Leaders’ course as a teenager, there are no records of Day having been granted any medals or serving a tour of duty.
Brothers in Arms
I did two weeks work experience in the canteen at RAF College Cranwell when I was thirteen.
Wheel Nut:
Brothers in Arms
There are bad apples in all walks of life
Currently waiting to join the rifles (TA). Got a Poxy hernia. Good timing lol