Black Hawk Down.

Quality piece of film making, well worth two and a half hours.

And you’ve responded to both of them, which indicates to me that you are…
Damn it, now I’ve shown that I’ve viewed both threads, which makes me…

As for the question, I don’t know, but NS still seems to work quite well in the Netherlands.

I think the Netherlands has stopped as well Pagen.

My generation missed it (born 1965) by a long way, my father (two years in the pay corps looking for Japanese snipers in Somerset….:rolleyes:) said it made him, it also faffed his eyes doing hours of double entry book keeping by naked light bulbs !

I don’t think the forces could cope with that many soldiers etc, it would be two years of “make work”, morning shift mess up the parade ground, afternoon shift clear it up.

It must have been quite a hit for the lad to be in Hozzy a month , but as they sat theres no place like home.Pleased he is O.K. though.
Daz, how about a photo of your worthy steed from the front, (Preferably without you in the pic :D)

Regards to you both.
Jim.

Lincoln .7.

4 ton skip lorry :eek:, “clipped” him as he crossed rather than a “knock down” if you follow me, serious injuries but not permanent, he has a long way to go still, his mum and dad are knackered but chuffed, thanks for the good wishes, he has suprised everybody with his speed of recovery. (can you leave my name off any posts, I “vent” about the ex Mrs from time to time….. you never know….:cool::eek: thanks)

He had been there awhile………….

This did….. for those in the know….:diablo::dev2:

post 178 in the Bin Laden thread.

He had been there awhile………….

I’m glad you pointed me at that – thats the funniest thing I have seen all day….

My nephew out of hospital now, hit by a 4 ton skip lorry as he crossed a road a little over a month ago. Now home with his mum, still has a way to go but seems like no long term damage.

I enjoyed it but I dont know about you chaps but was suprised at the pilots comments at the very end, something along the lines of

“we can show those englishmen we can hit it with the first shot!”

Im sure it wasnt but that could be taken the wrong way and sounds very disrespectful of the 617 squadrons sacrifice after all, as has been said before in earlier posts doing it under test conditions is one thing, doing it against a full on AA defence and the night is another !!!!

I won’t bother watching the rest of it then !? 🙁 🙁 😉 :rolleyes:;)

I just saw the first half, I think it’s interesting and well made. The post war A-26 trial footage is new to me with the “Highball” ( ? ) and caught my eye as did the initial tests with the correct shaped trial bomb.

Decent bit of TV IMHO. (so far) ask me again when I have seen the rest.

Joys of the digital age Bumblebee, you can crop and cut to your hearts content and (excuse the pun) tell him to get his finger out 😉