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		<title>By: British Blog Review</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57911</link>
		<dc:creator>British Blog Review</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the removal of Patrick Mercer MP from the Tory frontbench garnered some blog inches. Sunny at Pickled Politics has a take on it with links to many more views both for and against Mr Mercer.  And so to greener [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the removal of Patrick Mercer MP from the Tory frontbench garnered some blog inches. Sunny at Pickled Politics has a take on it with links to many more views both for and against Mr Mercer.  And so to greener [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57899</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m extra mature and extremely smelly.  We must hook up one day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m extra mature and extremely smelly.  We must hook up one day.</p>
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		<title>By: El Cid</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57898</link>
		<dc:creator>El Cid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a Cheddar man too (I even rate it above Manchego -- proper farmhouse Cheddar mind)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a Cheddar man too (I even rate it above Manchego &#8212; proper farmhouse Cheddar mind)</p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57897</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am the Cheddar man.  

And it&#039;s wulf piss and marmite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am the Cheddar man.  </p>
<p>And it&#8217;s wulf piss and marmite.</p>
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		<title>By: El Cid</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57895</link>
		<dc:creator>El Cid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does that mean you are a Celt then Bertie?</description>
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		<title>By: Anon+1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon+1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought it was foxes piss and twiglets?</description>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57879</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Should point out it doesn&#039;t stop with &#039;you ginger bastard&#039;.  It&#039;s also a widely held belief and I have heard a scientifically proven fact that gingers stink of piss.  As one would expect, much is made of this and the abuse their women come in for well, it shouldn&#039;t be repeated on a respectable forum such as this.  

As I said, they&#039;ll look for the chinks in your armour until you make sure there aren&#039;t any.

Oh, and I&#039;m strawberry blond, by the way.  Honest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should point out it doesn&#8217;t stop with &#8216;you ginger bastard&#8217;.  It&#8217;s also a widely held belief and I have heard a scientifically proven fact that gingers stink of piss.  As one would expect, much is made of this and the abuse their women come in for well, it shouldn&#8217;t be repeated on a respectable forum such as this.  </p>
<p>As I said, they&#8217;ll look for the chinks in your armour until you make sure there aren&#8217;t any.</p>
<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m strawberry blond, by the way.  Honest.</p>
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		<title>By: Jagdeep</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57878</link>
		<dc:creator>Jagdeep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the best line Bert. It&#039;s something that even the BNP supporting, lackey of Holocaust baiting Mark Collet guy called Anon+1 might agree on (I said might!)

&lt;b&gt;When men and women sign up to fight for this country, their sense of Britishness should never be degraded. My father came under fire in Northern Ireland. He had courage and patriotism. For soldiers like him to be routinely called a &#039;black bastard&#039; is unforgivable.&lt;/b&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the best line Bert. It&#8217;s something that even the BNP supporting, lackey of Holocaust baiting Mark Collet guy called Anon+1 might agree on (I said might!)</p>
<p><b>When men and women sign up to fight for this country, their sense of Britishness should never be degraded. My father came under fire in Northern Ireland. He had courage and patriotism. For soldiers like him to be routinely called a &#8216;black bastard&#8217; is unforgivable.</b></p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57875</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Nirpal&#039;s dad joined the infantry and as a shy and introverted new boy he was picked on?  Then he found some self confidence and realised that his former nemesis&#039; would actually stand up for him and even put their arses on the line for him?  This knowledge made him a veritable prince among men, drinking skins under the table and slamming his balls in the fridge door without blubbing?  

Man, he&#039;s almost worthy of his son.  Good article :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Nirpal&#8217;s dad joined the infantry and as a shy and introverted new boy he was picked on?  Then he found some self confidence and realised that his former nemesis&#8217; would actually stand up for him and even put their arses on the line for him?  This knowledge made him a veritable prince among men, drinking skins under the table and slamming his balls in the fridge door without blubbing?  </p>
<p>Man, he&#8217;s almost worthy of his son.  Good article <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/dablog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jagdeep</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57873</link>
		<dc:creator>Jagdeep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And Nirpal takes his argument with lefty idiots and undercover luvvie bigots mainstream! Including the moron Kira Cochrane, who thinks all Indian dudes look the same, innit? 

 &lt;a href=&quot;http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2347441.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The liberal left enjoys a wog joke along with the best of them 
&lt;/a&gt;

I don&#039;t care what anyone says. Nirpal is the man.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And Nirpal takes his argument with lefty idiots and undercover luvvie bigots mainstream! Including the moron Kira Cochrane, who thinks all Indian dudes look the same, innit? </p>
<p> <a href="http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2347441.ece" rel="nofollow">The liberal left enjoys a wog joke along with the best of them<br />
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<p>I don&#8217;t care what anyone says. Nirpal is the man.</p>
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		<title>By: Jagdeep</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57869</link>
		<dc:creator>Jagdeep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All you playa haterz stop hating on my man Nirpal Dhaliwal! He&#039;s written about his father&#039;s experience in the army and all the racism he experienced. I dont care what anyone says, I&#039;m liking him more and more.

 &lt;a href=&quot;http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2031402,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;My dad was called a &#039;black bastard&#039; too&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All you playa haterz stop hating on my man Nirpal Dhaliwal! He&#8217;s written about his father&#8217;s experience in the army and all the racism he experienced. I dont care what anyone says, I&#8217;m liking him more and more.</p>
<p> <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2031402,00.html" rel="nofollow">My dad was called a &#8216;black bastard&#8217; too</a></p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-3#comment-57863</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(At the risk of sounding &#039;when ah were a lad&#039;)

Only 1 in 5 got past Sutton Coldfield to even begin training in my day, it was the mid-80s, and unemployment was rife.

And you&#039;d be very surprised how much the mind is needed for infantry - I know I bloody well was.  Many failed because the map-reading was too much, for others the BATCO book remained a mystery.  AFV recognition was horrendous, but all had to recognise almost every NATO and WP vehicle.  Then you have to master sign language and fieldcraft, which is a science in itself.  

Then weapons training, it&#039;s not enough to know your way around your rifle.  You need to get to grips with the LMG, the MMG, grenades (fearsome), the 66mm, the 84mm, the LAW80, mortars, pistols.  Not just how they work, but their capabilities and how to maintain and repair them.  Then you have to do the same with all the likely kit the enemy will be trying to use against you.  

And because you will always be doing the job under conditions of enormous stress and fatigue, that&#039;s how you have to learn the job.  Most lessons are held outdoors, and as the saying goes &#039;if it ain&#039;t raining, it ain&#039;t training&#039;.  The thick ones don&#039;t get in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(At the risk of sounding &#8216;when ah were a lad&#8217;)</p>
<p>Only 1 in 5 got past Sutton Coldfield to even begin training in my day, it was the mid-80s, and unemployment was rife.</p>
<p>And you&#8217;d be very surprised how much the mind is needed for infantry &#8211; I know I bloody well was.  Many failed because the map-reading was too much, for others the BATCO book remained a mystery.  AFV recognition was horrendous, but all had to recognise almost every NATO and WP vehicle.  Then you have to master sign language and fieldcraft, which is a science in itself.  </p>
<p>Then weapons training, it&#8217;s not enough to know your way around your rifle.  You need to get to grips with the LMG, the MMG, grenades (fearsome), the 66mm, the 84mm, the LAW80, mortars, pistols.  Not just how they work, but their capabilities and how to maintain and repair them.  Then you have to do the same with all the likely kit the enemy will be trying to use against you.  </p>
<p>And because you will always be doing the job under conditions of enormous stress and fatigue, that&#8217;s how you have to learn the job.  Most lessons are held outdoors, and as the saying goes &#8216;if it ain&#8217;t raining, it ain&#8217;t training&#8217;.  The thick ones don&#8217;t get in.</p>
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		<title>By: Rumbold</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rumbold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I expect that you both had very hard jobs- I could never make it in the military.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I expect that you both had very hard jobs- I could never make it in the military.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon+1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon+1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can promise you that passing out as a systems engineering tech is alot harder than infantry, theres alot fewer on the course for starters as most are not even considered. We only 6 people passed out of my intake of 22. 
There is alot of complex training in analogue/digital/radio systems.
If you think I just played with radios you are mistaken. 

Im not taking anything away from infantry, but you dont need to use the mind very much. Infantry is body conditioning, im pretty convinced I could pass out of an infantry intake. Difficult as I know it would be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can promise you that passing out as a systems engineering tech is alot harder than infantry, theres alot fewer on the course for starters as most are not even considered. We only 6 people passed out of my intake of 22.<br />
There is alot of complex training in analogue/digital/radio systems.<br />
If you think I just played with radios you are mistaken. </p>
<p>Im not taking anything away from infantry, but you dont need to use the mind very much. Infantry is body conditioning, im pretty convinced I could pass out of an infantry intake. Difficult as I know it would be.</p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I was Royal signals, systems engineering technician. Infantry class 3 trained by infantry and Royal engineers&quot;

That was what you said.  And that makes you in the eyes of a rifleman what we call a &quot;Walt&quot; - I&#039;m sure you are familiar with the term.  

As for any monkey can be infantry - well you may be right.  But if you lack the reslilience of a monkey you&#039;re not going to get in, are you?  Playing with radios is a piece of piss, lets face it BT engineers can manage it.  Infantry is something very special indeed, only 26 of my intake of over 120 passed out.  Monkeys we may be, but we&#039;re fiercely proud that we can hack it because we know no one else can.  And you know full well you&#039;d never say monkey to my face - pride does indeed come before getting knocked flat on your fucking arse sometimes, eh?

For the outsourcing I repeat, the only long term solution that can ever work is for each nation to do what it does most efficiently.  How could anything else be sensible?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I was Royal signals, systems engineering technician. Infantry class 3 trained by infantry and Royal engineers&#8221;</p>
<p>That was what you said.  And that makes you in the eyes of a rifleman what we call a &#8220;Walt&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m sure you are familiar with the term.  </p>
<p>As for any monkey can be infantry &#8211; well you may be right.  But if you lack the reslilience of a monkey you&#8217;re not going to get in, are you?  Playing with radios is a piece of piss, lets face it BT engineers can manage it.  Infantry is something very special indeed, only 26 of my intake of over 120 passed out.  Monkeys we may be, but we&#8217;re fiercely proud that we can hack it because we know no one else can.  And you know full well you&#8217;d never say monkey to my face &#8211; pride does indeed come before getting knocked flat on your fucking arse sometimes, eh?</p>
<p>For the outsourcing I repeat, the only long term solution that can ever work is for each nation to do what it does most efficiently.  How could anything else be sensible?</p>
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		<title>By: Anon+1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon+1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dont pretent to be infantry, I claim to have some infantry training. Im more proud of the fact that I was a systems tech as any monkey can be pure infantry.

What you say about outsoucing what they are no good at is rubbish, the UK outsource what isnt fashionable or desirable as we are hellbent on becoming a nation of media clowns, socalists or beaurucrats. All that will happen is that other nations will overtake us in technologial advancements while we are left boasting about the quality of our celeb gossip mags and how we have lawers so skilled, even looking at someone wrong can get you sued.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dont pretent to be infantry, I claim to have some infantry training. Im more proud of the fact that I was a systems tech as any monkey can be pure infantry.</p>
<p>What you say about outsoucing what they are no good at is rubbish, the UK outsource what isnt fashionable or desirable as we are hellbent on becoming a nation of media clowns, socalists or beaurucrats. All that will happen is that other nations will overtake us in technologial advancements while we are left boasting about the quality of our celeb gossip mags and how we have lawers so skilled, even looking at someone wrong can get you sued.</p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1039/comment-page-2#comment-57786</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I shall compare you to who I like.  You were in a Corps yet pretend to be infantry.  There is an RS trade of &quot;combat signalman&quot;, but even he&#039;s a remf to the infantry.  That&#039;d be why each infantry battalion maintains it&#039;s own signals platoon, because we do need some signallers up front with us and cannot trust the corps to supply what we need.

What you propse there is the bit that isn&#039;t bullshit idealism, but the &quot;voluntary repatriation&quot; for anyone not of &quot;western European stock&quot; is frankly Hitlerite.  Forgive those of us who suspect that in the event the repatriation may not be entirely voluntary, eh?

Mind, the offshoring jobs bit is how things will go.  The only way for world peace in the long term is absolute free trade where nations stick to what they do well and outsource what they don&#039;t, then arrive at a balance.  It&#039;ll sting, but it is the only way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I shall compare you to who I like.  You were in a Corps yet pretend to be infantry.  There is an RS trade of &#8220;combat signalman&#8221;, but even he&#8217;s a remf to the infantry.  That&#8217;d be why each infantry battalion maintains it&#8217;s own signals platoon, because we do need some signallers up front with us and cannot trust the corps to supply what we need.</p>
<p>What you propse there is the bit that isn&#8217;t bullshit idealism, but the &#8220;voluntary repatriation&#8221; for anyone not of &#8220;western European stock&#8221; is frankly Hitlerite.  Forgive those of us who suspect that in the event the repatriation may not be entirely voluntary, eh?</p>
<p>Mind, the offshoring jobs bit is how things will go.  The only way for world peace in the long term is absolute free trade where nations stick to what they do well and outsource what they don&#8217;t, then arrive at a balance.  It&#8217;ll sting, but it is the only way.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon+1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon+1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.theroyalwelsh.org.uk/1bn/index.php?id=70
Even says its a BCFT there, dont compare me to a cook or clerk after the number of battlecamps, tabs, ranges and exercises ive been through.

Been tried many times? Please
How is lowering incentives for offshoring jobs, tougher and more strict sentencing on criminals and halting all immigration bullshit idealism?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.theroyalwelsh.org.uk/1bn/index.php?id=70" rel="nofollow">http://www.theroyalwelsh.org.uk/1bn/index.php?id=70</a><br />
Even says its a BCFT there, dont compare me to a cook or clerk after the number of battlecamps, tabs, ranges and exercises ive been through.</p>
<p>Been tried many times? Please<br />
How is lowering incentives for offshoring jobs, tougher and more strict sentencing on criminals and halting all immigration bullshit idealism?</p>
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		<title>By: Bert Preast</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bert Preast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you never passed an ICFT you were never any grade of infantryman.  Infantry Combat Fitness Test - it&#039;s fairly self explanatory.  8 miles up and down hills and through rivers in full CEFO in 1 hour 40, followed by an assault course and the range.  It&#039;s the standard test of basic fitness in the infantry.  You&#039;re thinking of the BFT, which I could still do now without breaking a sweat, because it&#039;s meant for cooks, clerks, signallers and other remfs.

I&#039;m not normally this insulting with the support arms - but when they try and pass themselves off as infantry perhaps you&#039;ll understand it grips my tits a bit?

And the manifesto is bullshit idealism.  Been tried many times, never worked.  The system needs change I&#039;ll grant you, but that&#039;s not it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you never passed an ICFT you were never any grade of infantryman.  Infantry Combat Fitness Test &#8211; it&#8217;s fairly self explanatory.  8 miles up and down hills and through rivers in full CEFO in 1 hour 40, followed by an assault course and the range.  It&#8217;s the standard test of basic fitness in the infantry.  You&#8217;re thinking of the BFT, which I could still do now without breaking a sweat, because it&#8217;s meant for cooks, clerks, signallers and other remfs.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not normally this insulting with the support arms &#8211; but when they try and pass themselves off as infantry perhaps you&#8217;ll understand it grips my tits a bit?</p>
<p>And the manifesto is bullshit idealism.  Been tried many times, never worked.  The system needs change I&#8217;ll grant you, but that&#8217;s not it.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon+1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I might of been in slight error over the class 3 thing, must be class 4. 
Thinking about it im pretty sure that infantry are class 3 after 6 months training, not class 4. 
My training lasted over a year and incluced all the basic skill at arms and fieldcraft training ontop of learning communications systems.

I was paid quite well, £1400 per month but money isnt my primary concern in life.
Dont you mean BCFT&#039;s btw? I cant recall the exact number I did, but i know i hated doing them.

The manifesto is something I can identify with, Immigration, Crime, Golbalisation and Social decay are all addressed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I might of been in slight error over the class 3 thing, must be class 4.<br />
Thinking about it im pretty sure that infantry are class 3 after 6 months training, not class 4.<br />
My training lasted over a year and incluced all the basic skill at arms and fieldcraft training ontop of learning communications systems.</p>
<p>I was paid quite well, £1400 per month but money isnt my primary concern in life.<br />
Dont you mean BCFT&#8217;s btw? I cant recall the exact number I did, but i know i hated doing them.</p>
<p>The manifesto is something I can identify with, Immigration, Crime, Golbalisation and Social decay are all addressed.</p>
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