It Must Be BRILLIANT Being In The Navy!

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

None of that evil Afghan shit to be faced on a daily basis like in the army.

Not even the tiny wee risk of being zapped by a dead jammy surface-to-air missile/volcanic ash cloud/laser pen, like in the RAF.

Instead you get to play Tour Rep in The Channel to stranded holiday-makers.

Nice work if you can get it

 

[Martinf]

Mmmmmmmm. Not sure about this. Does Captain Haddock have a view?

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Tell that to the sailors sunk in the Falklands and the soldiers on the Sir Galahad.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Mmmmmmmm. Not sure about this. Does Captain Haddock have a view?

Not really.....(ssshhh, don't tell anyone but I am in fact a landlubber!!!)

I do, however, know a song about the Navy!

 

[skipper734]

None of that evil Afghan shit to be faced on a daily basis like in the army.

Not even the tiny wee risk of being zapped by a dead jammy surface-to-air missile/volcanic ash cloud/laser pen, like in the RAF.

Instead you get to play Tour Rep in The Channel to stranded holiday-makers.

Nice work if you can get it

Tell that to the Marines.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My dad was WOUNDED in the Royal Navy. He broke a toe, playing cricket against the US Navy in San Francisco.

It's a DANGEROUS job.

But he did get to see some nice places. He even got torpedoed in the beautiful blue seas of the Mediterranean.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

None of that evil Afghan shit to be faced on a daily basis like in the army.

Not even the tiny wee risk of being zapped by a dead jammy surface-to-air missile/volcanic ash cloud/laser pen, like in the RAF.

Instead you get to play Tour Rep in The Channel to stranded holiday-makers.

Nice work if you can get it

Tell that to the Matelot's of 845 & 846 squandrons enjoying the delights of Afghanistan. Obviously because they aren't soldiers or crabs the Taliban won't shoot at them! Then there's the charming young wren who won the MC recently ......

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Tell that to the Matelot's of 845 & 846 squandrons enjoying the delights of Afghanistan. Obviously because they aren't soldiers or crabs the Taliban won't shoot at them! Then there's the charming young wren who won the MC recently ......

I do hope you are having a laugh here! The RAF and the Navy are so far back they send their washing forward! When the Navy get into the war and stop parading around the Bahamas in their 3 ships and a tug boat then and only then will i have any respect for them (except their pilots, they are ace)

RAF - waste of time and money

Navy - too small to be any bloody good or any bloody use

I have no affiliation to the fine and wonderful British Army who are the best in the world, what so ever.

 

[User removed 4]

I do hope you are having a laugh here! The RAF and the Navy are so far back they send their washing forward! When the Navy get into the war and stop parading around the Bahamas in their 3 ships and a tug boat then and only then will i have any respect for them (except their pilots, they are ace)

RAF - waste of time and money

Navy - too small to be any bloody good or any bloody use

I have no affiliation to the fine and wonderful British Army who are the best in the world, what so ever.

The one point that deportivo seagull makes that is true is about the wren medic , brave girl, apart from that fill your boots

 

[KneeOn]

I do hope you are having a laugh here! The RAF and the Navy are so far back they send their washing forward! When the Navy get into the war and stop parading around the Bahamas in their 3 ships and a tug boat then and only then will i have any respect for them (except their pilots, they are ace)

RAF - waste of time and money

Navy - too small to be any bloody good or any bloody use

I have no affiliation to the fine and wonderful British Army who are the best in the world, what so ever.

Do we not have the best Navy in the world or one of the best?

 

[drew]

Heard on some interview yesterday from a tory politician that we have 42 fewer ships in the RN than we did in 1997. Is this true and if so, do the ships we now have have a greater fighting capacity than those they have replaced. Also, unlikely that we need such a large navy as we did historically anyway.

 

[severnside gull]

as the son of a navy bomb disposal officer and the father of a royal marine can I just say, THPP & SC f*** OFF

 

[User removed 4]

as the son of a navy bomb disposal officer and the father of a royal marine can I just say, THPP & SC f*** OFF

In their defence , they were on about the present day navy, and not about the marines at all.

 

[User removed 4]

Also, unlikely that we need such a large navy as we did historically anyway.

history teaches us that we learn nothing from history, or something like that.

We're an island for f*** sake !!!!!

 

[Northstander]

If its that good, why dont you join up and do your bit?

 

[drew]

history teaches us that we learn nothing from history, or something like that.

We're an island for f*** sake !!!!!

Clarify your point. In 1939 we had 900 ships, are you saying we still need that many. The point I was making was not that we don't need a navy but that in the last 20 years it's role has changed due to the end of the cold war.

 

[User removed 4]

Clarify your point. In 1939 we had 900 ships, are you saying we still need that many. The point I was making was not that we don't need a navy but that in the last 20 years it's role has changed due to the end of the cold war.

We thought the world would be a lot safer at the end of WW1 and look what happened 20 years later, the threat has changed but it's still there , russia seems to want to flex it's muscles , you only have to look at what hapopened in georgia last year, and china with taiwan, we couldnt mount an operation like the falklands now so im told, and if a conflict did blow up somewhere , how long do you think it takes to build a warship? its not like we have a massive shipbuilding industry anyway.

 

[The Spanish]

its not like we have a massive shipbuilding industry anyway.

In fairness its the only thing we still do excel at in that field. VT for example are building vessels for others too.

The Italians have a fantastic shipbuilding industry still. Shows it can be done at European costs. Yet another example of Britain just ditching industries when it gets a bit tough. It will be financial services one day.........

 

[Rookie]

None of that evil Afghan shit to be faced on a daily basis like in the army.

Not even the tiny wee risk of being zapped by a dead jammy surface-to-air missile/volcanic ash cloud/laser pen, like in the RAF.

Instead you get to play Tour Rep in The Channel to stranded holiday-makers.

Nice work if you can get it

Hope this was said in jest. If not think you should volunteer for some work on one of the boats

 

[User removed 4]

Of course, the army didnt take the piss out of the navy/marines over this at all

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