Airborne Artist, I wore a cap badge at the opposite end of the spectrum and yet we seem to share a common view of this.
I do agree with the sentiment that the great unwashed seem to be supporting. If indeed an SAS man was hung out to dry for doing his job, while bad men go free, that would be worthy of a complaint.
However, nobody has come on here to defend the actions that Sgt. Nightingale has admitted to, never mind what he's been "accused" of.
Are we really supposed to accept that it's ok to bring a weapon into camp and keep it?
How much ammo is/was in blocks, houses and rooms in the mess?
Perhaps, at a stretch, his admitted behaviour was/is normal for the Army. That needs to be changed if it is.
He took the gun back to his tent and "was going to hand it in"
"Aye, right"
There are lots of dialects where two negatives make a positive:
"I didn't do nothing guv!"
But,
Only in Scotland have we perfected the art of two positives making a negative: