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The RSM had 'em.  And then he didn't.

In whose care were the medals?

It can't be that hard to find out where, or if, they were locked up.
 
How to prove to others that you have a death wish:

Crooked Soldiers Admit Stealing SAS Kit

Three British Army soldiers are facing jail after admitting to stealing more than £44,000 of equipment from the SAS before selling it on to buyers in the Far East.

Stores managers Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield, both non-commissioned officers (NCOs), took kit including silencers, stun grenades, and flare launchers, before handing it to Andrew Stevens, a 41-year-old who had contacts in Asia, according to the Sun.

Davenport, 33, was receiving praise as recently as April for his work as a forces football referee.

http://forces.tv/10454228
 
SAS hero kills ISIS fighter with an axe while freeing sex slaves as soldiers are reduced to tears by images of the torture girls are being put through

SAS soldier killed an ISIS fighter with an axe while freeing enslaved girls
Girls said to have been rounded up and forced to marry ISIS terrorists
The girls were tortured and raped when they refused to wed the men
Freed after covert operation by US and British forces who wept when they saw images of the torture they suffered


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3840145/SAS-hero-kills-ISIS-fighter-axe-freeing-sex-slaves-soldiers-reduced-tears-images-torture-girls-through.html#ixzz4NMTUoFyF
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daftandbarmy said:
How to prove to others that you have a death wish:

Crooked Soldiers Admit Stealing SAS Kit

Three British Army soldiers are facing jail after admitting to stealing more than £44,000 of equipment from the SAS before selling it on to buyers in the Far East.

Stores managers Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield, both non-commissioned officers (NCOs), took kit including silencers, stun grenades, and flare launchers, before handing it to Andrew Stevens, a 41-year-old who had contacts in Asia, according to the Sun.

Davenport, 33, was receiving praise as recently as April for his work as a forces football referee.

http://forces.tv/10454228
Congrats, knuckleheads, for reinforcing the oldest storesman stereotypes in history ...  :facepalm:
 
Chris Pook said:
The RSM had 'em.  And then he didn't.

In whose care were the medals?

It can't be that hard to find out where, or if, they were locked up.
I get the distinct impression that the Army really doesn't want to look too closely at this situation .
 
Former IRA informer found dead at his home in England

Raymond Gilmour was recruited by RUC in 1976 to inform from within republican paramilitary group, the INLA

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/29/former-ira-informer-found-dead-at-his-home-in-england
 
The SAS has a list of British ISIS fighters and their job is to take them out to prevent their return to the UK.Maybe this is a tactic to get them to surrender to Iraqi forces. :camo:

http://www.businessinsider.com/british-sas-forces-in-iraq-given-a-list-of-british-jihadis-to-kill-2016-11
 
tomahawk6 said:
The SAS has a list of British ISIS fighters and their job is to capture or take them out to prevent their return to the UK.Maybe this is a tactic to get them to surrender to Iraqi forces. :camo:

http://www.businessinsider.com/british-sas-forces-in-iraq-given-a-list-of-british-jihadis-to-kill-2016-11
FTFY -- THAT would make an interesting "welcome home", indeed ...
 
British second world war shipwrecks in Java Sea destroyed by illegal scavenging

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/16/british-second-world-war-ships-illegal-scavenging-java-sea
 
Queen is in danger of losing the Guard at Buckingham Palace as Royal protection suffers its worst recruitment crisis in its history

Foot Guards are failing to meet manpower targets in 3 of 5 regiments
Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards have fewer Guardsman than necessary
Ministry of Defence insists they have enough soldiers to fulfil duties


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3954094/Queen-danger-losing-Guard-Buckingham-Palace-Royal-s-elite-Foot-Guards-suffer-worst-recruitment-crisis-history.html#ixzz4Qhwxg4qQ
 
UK commander in Iraq calls for patience over retaking Mosul from Isis

Jones is the youngest general in the British army and son of Lt Col H Jones, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after being killed in the Falklands in 1982.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/28/top-uk-commander-calls-for-patience-retaking-mosul-isis-donald-trump-us-strategy-islamic-state

 
I guess 'Truth and Reconciliation' only works one way...

Witch hunt of our boys: ‘Outrageous’ new probe launched into ALL 302 killings by British servicemen in Northern Ireland with veterans in their 70s set to be quizzed in murder inquiry

1,000 ex-sevicemen will have their actions brought under scrutiny in inquiry
238 'fatal incidents' are being investigated by detectives in Northern Ireland 
Half of the 302 deaths were activists in the IRA or members of loyalist groups
MPs blasted the investigation and described the new probe as a 'witch hunt'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4011758/Probe-launched-302-killings-British-troops-Northern-Ireland.html#ixzz4SFuy9UcW
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Terror arrests made after 'significant plot to attack UK is disrupted'


Six people arrested in Derby, Burton on Trent and London detained on suspicion of engaging in preparation of act of terrorism

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/12/counter-terrorim-arrests-made-over-significant-plot-to-attack-uk-isis-
 
In almost half a century...

Forces have first year since 1968 with no one killed on operations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/01/forces-have-first-year-since-1968-no-one-killed-operations/

Mark
Ottawa


 
A good news story:


Man who ran bomb factory in Northern Ireland jailed for 11 years

Barry Petticrew, 45, was caught on a farm with enough explosives to build the largest bomb ever seen in the region

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/20/man-barry-petticrew-ran-bomb-factory-northern-ireland-jailed-11-years
 
MarkOttawa said:
In almost half a century...

Mark
Ottawa

Sadly they're reporting a serviceman has died in Iraq today.  Not combat related.
 
British soldier will not be charged over 'friendly fire' death of comrade in Afghanistan

A British soldier will not face prosecution over the death of a comrade on an Afghan battlefield four years ago, an inquest has heard.

The inquest into Lance Corporal James Brynin's death was halted after six days of evidence last year amid fears the fatality, which was initially suspected to have been caused by "friendly fire", may have been a homicide.

L/Cpl Brynin, 22, who was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, was shot dead on an operation in central Helmand Province on October 15 2013.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/16/british-soldier-will-not-charged-friendly-fire-death-comrade/
 
Where's our justice? Grieving families of British soldiers murdered in an IRA 'honey-trap' blast police for refusing to re-examine their deaths - despite witch-hunt against Army veterans

Dougald McCaughey, 23, Joseph McCaig, 18, and his brother John, 17, all died
Were executed on a remote mountain road in Northern Ireland on March 10, 1971
Trio were drinking in bars when men befriended and lured them to their deaths
Families blasted police who refused to re-examine deaths despite witch hunt against Army veterans


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4125864/Families-Brit-soldiers-murdered-IRA-demand-justice.html#ixzz4VzW8vj00

 
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