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[FJAG]

A pint of London Pride says it was the PARA

Couple kicked out of own Tower of London wedding after drunk army officer went wild

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/27/couple-kicked-out-of-own-tower-of-london-wedding-after-drunk-army-officer-went-wild-6600271/#ixzz4fUNTjqwt

You might lose that one. It's a bit hard to tell from the picture, but the para looks like a captain while the miscreant was allegedly a lieutenant.

:cheers:

 

[Kirkhill]

I'd say he owes you that pint FJAG.  I count 3 pips.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Sgt Alexander Blackman, Marine A, released from prison

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/28/sgt-alexander-blackman-marine-released-prison/

About fucking time this travesty of Justice was corrected.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Commandos' battle with the Navy to stop UK's only helicopter carrier being sold to a foreign force

HMS Ocean is the British Navy's only helicopter carrier but could be sold off
Royal Marines are fighting an internal Navy dispute to prevent the sale
There are fears that HMS Ocean could soon become a part of the Brazilian fleet


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4459172/Royal-Marines-launch-gasp-bid-save-HMS-Ocean.html#ixzz4fjqdgQSN
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[daftandbarmy]

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Mission Command; The Fall of the Strategic Corporal; the Rise of the Tactical Minister

General Krulak coined the phrase ‘Strategic Corporal’ in 1999 before the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He predicted that in increasingly complex operating environments there would be a need to exploit decision critical information at the lowest levels.  Similarly he predicted that decisions made at the tactical level could have a strategic political impact due to an expanding global media.

His prescription for these changing conditions was that militaries should empower their junior leaders and afford them the freedom to fail.  The response from the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the senior echelons of the Army has instead been to centralise decision making at the very highest levels.  Operational experience in Iraq and Afghanistan has left many with the impression that Mission Command is simply another doctrinal buzzword which is preached but not practiced.  An objective, frequent and demonstrable example of this can be found in the numerous Tactical Aide Memoires produced by the British Army.  The campaign handbooks developed for the Malayan and Kenyan counterinsurgency campaigns were small and practical books of ideas, generated from pragmatic and local solutions.  The unwieldy doorstops produced for the later iterations of Ops TELIC and HERRICK became too prescriptive and full of verbose policy to considered either tactical or an aid to memory.

https://wavellroom.com/2017/04/23/test-blog-entry/

 

[Kirkhill]

My take-away on that one is "trust".

Believing that your subordinates are people of good character with skills that you don't have and that are capable of managing your problems for you.

Politicians seem to have problems with the concept.

I'm tempted to say that that is because they expect everyone to be like them.

 

[Old Sweat]

Could it be that process is designed as much to control the brilliant as it is to guide the incompetent? Both if left to their own devices could upset the established order.

 

[Kirkhill]

Could it be that process is designed as much to control the brilliant as it is to guide the incompetent? Both if left to their own devices could upset the established order.

Then you would never find Marlborough, Wellington or Nelson.  Although you may avoid Byng, Bligh and Roberts.

The Brits used to believe in, what the Cavalry types called, a loose rein and giving the horse its head.  They chose horses, hounds and soldiers that didn't require urging but that required curbing.  The curbing had to be light enough so that the spirit of the horses, hounds and soldiers was not broken.

How do I know this?  Because my father was a creature of that culture, a culture that has largely died out now.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Then you would never find Marlborough, Wellington or Nelson.  Although you may avoid Byng, Bligh and Roberts.

The Brits used to believe in, what the Cavalry types called, a loose rein and giving the horse its head.  They chose horses, hounds and soldiers that didn't require urging but that required curbing.  The curbing had to be light enough so that the spirit of the horses, hounds and soldiers was not broken.

How do I know this?  Because my father was a creature of that culture, a culture that has largely died out now.

I recall my first experience as front line leader in Northern Ireland, with 1 PARA. 2Lt D&B, aged 21 years, was given a permanent vehicle checkpoint (a couple of porta cabins surrounded by a breeze block 'blast wall' on a cross roads in Bandit Country) and told to get on with it. No formal orders or lengthy list of 'COAs'. My multiple (12 troops organized into 3 bricks) did 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, 9 hours on, 9 hours off, in exchange with the other half of my platoon, who were always on rural patrols somewhere else on the border under command of the Pl Sgt.

The OC visited once a week or so via covert vehicle, helicopter or on foot. The CQ turned up for resupply trips weekly. Apart from that, I was the 'Lord of the Manor' and we were architects of our own destiny. Suspicious about some activity you observed last night over at that farm? Plan an operation of some sort, get the support you need, then go for it. Run out of food? Don't ask, don't get, Sunshine. Pte Bloggins slacking off a bit? Give him a well deserved rifting and sort it out.

I compare that, and other similar experiences, with what I've heard from those emerging from various heavily micromanaged/ risk averse experiences more recently, in AFG and elsewhere, and thank various Gods of Good Fortune for the opportunities that I had.

 

[medicineman]

Saw this, thought it might fit in well here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs8c_c_awGs

MM

 

[Rifleman62]

daftandbarmy:

........architects of our own destiny.

You were an architect also? Do you know Sajjan? ;D






Just joking. Very good post.
Those were the days before a lawyer and PAO in every Pl HQ.

 

[daftandbarmy]

daftandbarmy:
You were an architect also? Do you know Sajjan? ;D






Just joking. Very good post.
Those were the days before a lawyer and PAO in every Pl HQ.

Yes, of course. He rescued us at Arnhem and together we ended WW2 in 1944.

 

[Rifleman62]

That must have been the jump over the Rhine conducted early, to end the Second World War in 1944. ;D

(I your point, as heros and architects, you both successfully ended the war early).

 

[Kirkhill]

Brits in Batus:


Class line of a good article

“They learn to be at the mercy of the Royal Air Force,” says Mills (Sr Ops O) of the troops’ deployment to Canada.

(Mills seems to have an overall troubled relationship with air power. Later, he noted that BATUS’ helicopters — “unlike anywhere else in the army” — actually show up on time).

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/albertas-british-invasion-massive-military-base-allows-troops-from-u-k-to-replicate-war

 

[daftandbarmy]

Brits in Batus:


Class line of a good article

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/albertas-british-invasion-massive-military-base-allows-troops-from-u-k-to-replicate-war

"In 2008, some bars even shut out British Army soldiers altogether, telling local media that the men couldn’t seem to stop vomiting and peeing everywhere."

Like every Friday night in UK garrison towns, just add 'blood' too

 

[daftandbarmy]

'It's almost like being a single mum': The reality of being a Royal Marine wife

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/its-almost-like-being-a-single-mum-the-reality-of-being-a-royal-marine-wife/

 

[daftandbarmy]

Poor things... I hope they had a hair dryer available for them after hitting 'Peter's Pool'  [


England squad spend 48 hours with the Royal Marines in Devon - and it does not look fun


In the build-up to Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Hampden Park, England manager Southgate and his team spent 48 hours on a team bonding session in Devon with the Royal Marines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/06/05/england-squad-spend-48-hours-royal-marines-devon-does-not/

 

[daftandbarmy]

Shouldn't be too much of a stretch for some of them

Armed SAS troops take to streets disguised as tramps and street sweepers to stop another terror attack

SAS troops armed with Heckler and Koch MP7 guns have been disguised as beggars
They have been stationed at cities across the UK to prevent a terrorist attack
Three attacks have occured this year in London and Manchester, killing 35


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4601958/Armed-SAS-troops-disguised-tramps.html#ixzz4k5YHS65b
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[Kirkhill]

Shouldn't be too much of a stretch for some of them

Armed SAS troops take to streets disguised as tramps and street sweepers to stop another terror attack

SAS troops armed with Heckler and Koch MP7 guns have been disguised as beggars
They have been stationed at cities across the UK to prevent a terrorist attack
Three attacks have occured this year in London and Manchester, killing 35


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4601958/Armed-SAS-troops-disguised-tramps.html#ixzz4k5YHS65b
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Transition training?

 

[jollyjacktar]

John Wick come to life.