What a waste, what a fool.
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Fascinating reading.
This WO2 had been busy!
Warrant Officer Class 2, Army, Bulford, 17-May-10, 3 x Theft, 7 x Fraud. Guilty, 12 months imprisonment, reduced to the ranks, dismissed from Her Majesty's Service, £28,918.01 Service Compensation Order
This WO2 had been busy!
Warrant Officer Class 2, Army, Bulford, 17-May-10, 3 x Theft, 7 x Fraud. Guilty, 12 months imprisonment, reduced to the ranks, dismissed from Her Majesty's Service, £28,918.01 Service Compensation Order
The worrying thing about those Court Martial statistics to me is the number that were taken to trial and then found not guilty. One hopes given the wonderful track record of the SIB those verdicts were not the result of a technicality.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Skelton, who knows. There was a time when "March in the guilty b@st@rd" was more true than a joke.
One of our flt cdrs became a standing President and said that because of the system generally only the guilty, especially in the RAF, came to courts martial.
OTOH you could argue that many in civil courts also get off on technicality.
One of our flt cdrs became a standing President and said that because of the system generally only the guilty, especially in the RAF, came to courts martial.
OTOH you could argue that many in civil courts also get off on technicality.
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On one occasion, I was about to have a charge read. It was the Friday before a long weekend and I really wanted to go to Ayia Napa with the boys - jankers would have scuppered that and wreaked havoc with my social diary which, at the time, was revolving around a particular PMRAFNS who had just got posted into TPMH. The flt sgt told me not to leave the sqn compound and wait around for the flt cdr to hear the charge. Luckily, the sqn bar was in the compound and when we were eventually stood down, I calculated I could discretely join the flt in the bar for a few Keos whilst not falling foul of his order.
The delicious nectar was about to pass my lips and with it, I started to compose a plausible case for a stay of justice as I felt I would be incapable of defending myself due to the undoubted effects of akhol ("Would you like to make a statement, you gopping airman?" "Yesh shirr, I like peas and gravy"). As the bottle passed the horizontal, a beefy hand snatched it from me. Scuppered! By the man who told me I was too ugly for QCS, he actually put that on my assessments - these days, I could probably sue him. He also arranged for me to get an extra few days sweeping the road from sqn compound to the picquet post in body armour and tin helmet.
Second best Flt Sgt I had!
The delicious nectar was about to pass my lips and with it, I started to compose a plausible case for a stay of justice as I felt I would be incapable of defending myself due to the undoubted effects of akhol ("Would you like to make a statement, you gopping airman?" "Yesh shirr, I like peas and gravy"). As the bottle passed the horizontal, a beefy hand snatched it from me. Scuppered! By the man who told me I was too ugly for QCS, he actually put that on my assessments - these days, I could probably sue him. He also arranged for me to get an extra few days sweeping the road from sqn compound to the picquet post in body armour and tin helmet.
Second best Flt Sgt I had!
