I get the same problem regularly with these forums, but never experience problems with other websites while it’s happening, so it’s obviously a server issue – no idea if intended/planned or not. Doesn’t bother me too much though, I just come back later.

New episode tomorrow, BBC4 at 9pm! Looking forward to it.

Thursday’s ‘Young Soldiers’ episode was very good viewing.

Fantastic photos, very dramatic!

Newsflash: young people are fickle!

Wait, that’s not news :rolleyes:

Sandhurst was very good tonight, but I was very surprised by the guy who left due to uncertainty about killing, of all things.

I found young soldiers to be very good so far.

Both programs give great insight, especially to me personally, as I’m considering joining the armed forces myself.

I have to agree with this. Do not forget that this is ‘infotainment’, story first, facts second.

Probably a subject for another thread,
there were at least twelve types of prefabricated airfield surface, including Chevron Grid, Bar & Rod, Army Tracking, Irving Track, Square Mesh track (SMT), Prefabricated Bituminous Surfacing (PBS), however Sommerfeld Track and PSP became the most widely used.
Intially Somerfeld Track was populor with the RAF on home airfields and PSP with the USAAF, probably as a result of being devloped repectively by their home nations, PSP became more universal across the allies services as production and safe supply increased. It was more deployable, easier to lay, and reuse.

The Army and Royal Air Force Airfield Construction Service were responsible for deployment and laying of the surfaces, particularly in emergency and tactical theatre airfields overseas.
The American Engineer Corp & US Engineers did the same for USAAF airfields.
The Royal Canadian Engineers (who developed PBS) also did a huge amount of work in this respect in the UK and overseas.

Thanks for the info. 😎

I’ll keep this brief as I’m on my phone. I disagree completely about parents, they seem to be more careless than ever. Kids seem to run the streets until late night, and they are not playing or exploring like we did. Schools qnd organisations are certainly more safety concious than ever, but parents, sorry to disagree there. Maybe its an Essex/London thing, though…