One of these days the stuff will hit the fan. When it does a nice gentle politically correct defence force won't cut the mustard. It doesn't take gentlemen to defend the nation, the women of the nation, & even the politically correct milk sops of pretend men. It takes hard ruthless bastads, that are prepared to kill in any way they can, & probably die trying.

As a fleet air arm pilot I knew I was the most expendable of the defence force. I knew I had a 50% chance of my plane or my ship going down, & having a couple of days dying alone in the sea. I did it because I loved my country & felt it was definitely worth defending.

Would I do it today, no way. About half the people in the country are not worth anyone's life defending, & the defence force with it's current leadership is virtually designed to kill most of our men, because it is so dysfunctional. D did not mind taking a chance of getting killed, but there is no way even our best could survive with the current structure & leadership.

I hope those who are forcing this politically correct hog wash into place, & loosing many of the fighting type of men in the process, don't end up wishing they had not done so.

Continued.

Continued.

I don't know any service pilots today, so I have no idea of how good the blokes or the women are. I don't know how much they trust in the ability of other pilots.

I flew with a fair few other pilots in my day, & they were all well above very competent, & many were brilliant. It is a calling that attracts the very competent, & both the selection process & the training weeds out all but the very best. I can only hope this is applied to the ladies as stringently as it is to the blokes.

I do know I raced cars, up to formula 1, & most things below that level. I raced a lot of men, many of them not much good, but quite a few who were brilliant. I raced a few women, most of them not much good. None were brilliant, & there was only one who I thought was really competent. We encouraged the ladies as it was good to see them having a go, but we did worry about them. Race cars, like jets, are not very forgiving things, & we did not want to see them get hurt. I don't know why, but it always feels worse for a lady to be hurt, than a bloke.

I certainly hope that any ladies flying our jets, or in control of any other equipment are at least as competent as that one racing driver. If not, when we again have to fight, & that is what defence forces are for, others are going to die because of it.

Dear Hasbeen,

Blah blah blah. Bulldust.

There was certainly no way the teenage crap that some in the armed forces have gotten up to recently would have been tolerated in the navy during your time nor during my father's.

Cambell is ex-SAS and has been awarded the DSC along with the Commander of the Legion of Merit from the Americans. He was Abbott's pick to oversee Operation Sovereign Borders and by all accounts you think it was a raging bloody success. He is going to be Chief of Australia's armed forces in July.

He would normally be your kind of poster boy and seems like the kind of bloke who if he sees a problem will fix it. He felt this was an issue that needed addressing and did something about it now you and the other armchair warriors are pissing all over him.

As an Australian I want someone in charge who will deliver us a professional and highly trained defense force. He seems to fit the bill. If there are some who are so fond of grim reaper cartoons that they would prefer to leave than park them then they need to clear off.

And you need to back off and have some respect for someone dedicated to having professionalism as a hallmark of our forces.

Mug.

How's Muammar Gaddafi doing these days?

is mise,
I suspect he's up there enjoying the company of 72 virgins & watching the hordes crawl all over Europe & also making their way to Australia. Lucy Turnbull reckons there's plenty of room for them in Sydney.
What do you think, was he right or wrong ? Let us know asap please.

ps. I always wondered if the leftist females were such virgins in another life ?

//I suspect he's up there enjoying the company of 72...//

...raisins. Dried grapes are the reward that await Islamic martyrs in paradise, not virgins. The 72 virgins things is made up (well I suppose technically it's all made up, but the 72 virgins thing is even more made up than the rest if you catch my drift); presumably invented by those looking to radicalise young Muslims as something to sweeten the whole suicide-bombing deal. By perpetuating the myth, you're effectively doing their work for them.

//ps. I always wondered if the leftist females were such virgins in another life ?//

Even if we are going to pretend it's virgins, their sex is never stated (because raisins don't have a sex). Until I found out about the raisins thing, I always assumed that any reasonable God with a sense of humour would 'reward' them with the eternal company of 72 morbidly obese World of Warcraft nerds (the old 'be careful what you wish for' gag). Like this guy, but less attractive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGXLs8j4D64

Tony Lavis,
I'm just about certain that was a soldier that got emasculated during the Rudd/Gillard years, probably a Penny Wong recruit who could see that he'd make a good vertebrae in Labor's spine.