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IMO if you are not prepared to defend you country, you should forfeit legal protection. Discuss.

https://news.sky.com/video/poll-suggests-britons-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-of...

There is a Sea Cadet Lieutenant who has been at an Isle of Wight Sea Cadet Unit for yonks, he's aged well over seventy. However, he's a bit of a Walter Mitty claiming to be a Royal Naval Reservist and bizarrely simultaneously claims to be a veteran. He blags free drinks, free food, free trips from various charities aimed at veterans, with no shame whatsoever. Most of us military...

Been researching my great-grandfather's military service for a while, already done his Cold War Army career I'm now on to the really exciting bit, Royal Navy WW2.

I now have service records.

14²/8271 GANGES From: 12 Jan 1943

15²/2381 EUROPA I From: 27 Mar 1943

13²/76 HAMILCAR From: 14 Apr 1943

13²/171 (BOUGIE) From: 1 Sep 1943

The BBC have recently posted an article on a visit by a BBC journalist to the secretive British colony of Diego Garcia, currently essentially a US airforce & naval base, whose lease to use the island expires in 12 years time. The then Labour government leased the island to the US in return for £14m off the Polaris nuclear submarines it bought as the backbone to our deterrent...

Erm...morning!

The other "spam" thread was so huge I deleted it. Completely on purpose and not at all by mistake. No sir. Not me. I'm not that stupid...

Anyway - as before, all links to spamming annoyances in here, please!