damo Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 After returning back to england on R and R from my second tour of the country, Just woundering what your views are. Have got a video of my squadron from 2006. Also tell me what you think about the video too please.Cheers Damo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam-Griffin Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 I'd love to go out there, hopefully will have by the end of the year. How did you find/are you finding your tour? My dad got back in October and said it was one of the better tours hes done in his career... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 We're definatly having a beter tour than our last one, at the moment were working out of FOBs and jus coming back after a few hours patroling. Where as last tour we were spending up 9 weeks out on the ground, working up 20 hours a day, but enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam-Griffin Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 We're definatly having a beter tour than our last one, at the moment were working out of FOBs and jus coming back after a few hours patroling. Where as last tour we were spending up 9 weeks out on the ground, working up 20 hours a day, but enjoyed it.Christ, all fun and games then Just think of that nice juicy bonus when you get back though When you due back for good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Not sure because duty remour is i'm on course so i might not be going back out, so will just have to find out when i get back to Windsor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 To be perfectly honest I have no idea what we (you) are doing there. There seems to be no game plan, no goal or end in sight- just a whole lot of f**ked up religious wankers slowly blowing the country apart and taking plenty of innocent lives with them. Are you still trying to find Bin Laden or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 To be perfectly honest I have no idea what we (you) are doing there. There seems to be no game plan, no goal or end in sight- just a whole lot of f**ked up religious wankers slowly blowing the country apart and taking plenty of innocent lives with them. Are you still trying to find Bin Laden or what?Drugs. its about 60-70% of the worlds drugs are grown there. And i think of the top of my head 80% of the drugs that are in Britain come from there too. We were also asked by the Afgani government to help them out by taking away the Taliban. We all think that Bin Laden is dead anyway if he ain't hes most proberly hiding in pakistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Smith!! Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 I dont understand whats going on out there either, but that videos ace, some part of me wants to go there but others dont lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Drugs.But the UK government should be spending the hundreds of millions of pounds sorting out drugs being imported and on the streets in the UK rather than getting people killed and invading another country to stop it at the source- I don't see that as any of our business. This whole thing is a throwback to the 9/11 attacks which, though 100% evil and f**ked up, this 'conflict' doesn't seem to have any link to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1a2bcio8 Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 (edited) I'd be highly suspicious of our governments motivation for being there having much to do with a concern for the people of Afghanistan. That would seem to contradict many of their other actions past and present. It's probably also true that drugs aren't much of a motivation but like "concern" it's a nice cover story. In that sense, what happens in Afghanistan regarding the Taliban and drug production is a convenience to be utilized.I don't stand by that in absolutist way however, especially as I'm hard pressed to remember what I've read about Afghanistan and the west. I only know I've read a wealth of information that suggests a general trend whereby most western goverments act in accord with what benefits them in the sense of profit, over all else and this includes Afghanistan in the past. In this sense, I don't really support the motivation. If as a by product the people of Afghanistan gain from protection against the Taliban I think at least that is a good thing. Edited December 21, 2009 by Ben Rowlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 If as a by product the people of Afghanistan gain from protection against the Taliban I think at least that is a good thing.I don't really think that would work either though... If you remove the Taliban (Sunni Islamic extremists) then they'll just be replaced by Shia's, Sufi's or whatever other evil Muslim psycho's the religion spawns. They will then continue to try and wipe out any remaining non extremist Sunni's by blowing themselves and anyone else who's around to the kingdom of Allah. Regardless, there's no reason why the UK should be involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullapool Trials Rider Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 A bunch of tits trying to kill everyone. But the guys in afganistan are doing a brilliant job to keep them the f**k away from us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 But the guys in afganistan are doing a brilliant job to keep them the f**k away from us all.I vote for a giant dome over the country, similar to that used in the fact based documentary I saw a while back... ' The Simpsons somethingorother' I think it was called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Wanna know what I think?I think the whole thing is pointless and we shouldn't be there.We need to climb out of Americas arse and stop getting involved in "wars" that don't concern us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 (edited) Lawnmowermans brother has just come back from there but is going back out in January I think. Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> Edited December 21, 2009 by Si-man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Religion and profit. :ugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
club_card Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 After returning back to england on R and R from my second tour of the country, Just woundering what your views are. Have got a video of my squadron from 2006. Also tell me what you think about the video too please.Cheers DamoYour from Chelmsford! I used to live in Braintree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Your from Chelmsford! I used to live in Braintree.Yeah from Chelmsford, well orginally from Islington, North London. But now live in windsor as thats where im based. But back in chelmo on leave. Going out in Braintree tomorow free bar somewhere lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 What's with soldiers making videos of action on their phones? If I was in charge I'd be seriously pissed off if a useful body were f**king about videoing what's going on instead of doing their job and avoiding being shot... In fact if I were there I'd be concentrating on not being shot rather than videoing stuff. I can understand messing around in camp and away from the action but surely when you're being shot at your mind should be on the job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rab shropshire Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 What's with soldiers making videos of action on their phones? If I was in charge I'd be seriously pissed off if a useful body were f**king about videoing what's going on instead of doing their job and avoiding being shot... In fact if I were there I'd be concentrating on not being shot rather than videoing stuff. I can understand messing around in camp and away from the action but surely when you're being shot at your mind should be on the job?Getting shot at out there becomes so much of a way of life that it doesnt bother you anymore, and from my own experience most of the videos are shot on helmet mounted cameras and if not the person shooting the video is in some cover so he cant get shot. Your right though it does get annoying when some tit has a camera in your face and you are trying to get on with bussiness, it's then just down to someone to get a grip of them and get them doing what they need to do. IMO most of us soldiers make videos as something to look back on, and its also for people who may take what we do for granted, to just sit up and see what we do out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Midget Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Yeah from Chelmsford, well orginally from Islington, North London. But now live in windsor as thats where im based. But back in chelmo on leave. Going out in Braintree tomorow free bar somewhere lol.if i was 18 id come have a drink with you, i live in braintree also in 2010 hopefully il get in the forces and start my training Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted December 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 What's with soldiers making videos of action on their phones? If I was in charge I'd be seriously pissed off if a useful body were f**king about videoing what's going on instead of doing their job and avoiding being shot... In fact if I were there I'd be concentrating on not being shot rather than videoing stuff. I can understand messing around in camp and away from the action but surely when you're being shot at your mind should be on the job?Most of it is helmet cams, which just record when your cracking on with a firefight. So still doing our job but it gets recoreded to. And yeah messing around when we're back in the main camp bastion we end taking photo's like this!Was alot worse taking to lmao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Manual Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 'The war on terror' makes me sick. No disrespect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Most of it is helmet cams, which just record when your cracking on with a firefight. So still doing our job but it gets recoreded to.Ah fair enough . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Gibbs Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I have nothing but respect and admiration for our guys out there your doing a brilliant job. But i feel that they have been sent on a hoax cause to be honest! Its the americans fight and not ours really. I feel that all our lads are being shot for G.W bush's power trip. But that is my opinion on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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