rather than 'Hoskins' depositing me and mine across a border.
In the mid-sixties less than five miles from where from I am now the Navy managed to deposit an entire Commando in the Peoples Republic of China when they missed Hong Kong.
From time immemorial all three services have been guilty of dropping off, bombing or shelling the wrong place and no doubt they will continue to do so.
It's unfortunate but the tone of your last post suggests that even after twenty-five years or more out of the service you are still carrying a chip on your shoulder about the crabs.
I thought that we had all grown out of that.
As a final appendum, because I am backing out of this now because I have better things to do, it is obvious that I have been in the wrong job. There is no way that I as an offshore pilot I could find the time to compose the great tomes on this thread.