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[Von Smallhausen]

200 troops who specialise in IED disposal have returned to a heroes welcome today in Didcot, Oxfordshire. 7 did not come back and some were injured including a double amputee.

Around 200 exams, 7 years training and balls of titanium.

I have had limited experience of them within the police community where suspect packages are found and they are always cheery, cool as a snowman's testicles and have a can do attitude second to none.

While I admire and respect our Armed Forces as a whole, I think these guys deserve a special mention.

Welcome back.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Respect to these guys but the majority of the armed forces are low skilled, uneducated thugs who, if they couldn't point a gun straight, would be out on the street robbing old ladies.

Who better to place a size 10 in the nuts of the Taliban then ?

 

[Von Smallhausen]

That is exactly what our government thinks but it upsets me that these poor lads don't know that they are just cannon fodder. The government doesn't care about them, the way they see it......it's better to have them vandalising another country rather than our own.

These lads are not so daft that when they sign up they understand that harm may come their way.

Generations of soldiers will tell you that the government doesn't treat you as they should and that will be Labour and Conservative.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

How should they be treated? They are fundementally uneducated (talking about the common soldier here) people who are getting paid to be trained to kill people whilst being reprogrammed through training to do it efficiently.

They should be treated as people who put there lives on the line for not a lot of money ..... with a little respect and given the tools they need to do the job.

The Army, and indeed the services as a whole, are sometimes a safety net for those in society with few other options in life where a job, pay and a pension is there for them.

I can get a job as private security over there and get paid 2k+ a week while a private soldier doesn't get that in a month. Quite sickening.

Danger money alone makes a private soldier worth 30k a year basic.

The current salary of a soldier is a debate in itself but I can't see how it is a crap job ? I know at least a dozen people who are ex-services and every one of them loved it.

There will be those who hate it without a doubt but the things I have heard are pretty supportive.