12 Years. Remarkable Service??

[TheWizard]

First and foremost, I congratulate anyone who has completed any sort of military service but am I missing something about this story?

David Swanton Celebrated 12 Years of Service in the RAF - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130418-910280.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

UNITED KINGDOM, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- David Swanton was recently able to celebrate his remarkable achievement of serving for 12 years in the Royal Air Force. This is a great achievement for David Swanton. David Swanton knows that not many people get to celebrate such a feat of success such as this, and is very grateful for this moment of celebration.

[Courtney Mil]

Well, if you missed it, I missed it too. Perhaps the journo couldn't read his own handwriting and actually meant 42 years?

[Just This Once...]

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SOURCE David Swanton

I think they may be related!

[airborne_artist]

Are there two 59 year olds called David Swanton, both living in London?

David Swanton number 1 (http://www.freepressbox.com/news-david-swanton-announces-12year-career-in-the-raf-215172.html) - Free Press Box

David Swanton number 2 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9474723/Convicted-paedophile-walks-free-because-prison-would-make-him-more-dangerous.html) - Daily Telegraph.

DS number 2 is not a nice man.

[ricardian]

If he is now 59 does that mean he signed on when he was 47?

[NutLoose]

Does he get 2 + bars to his LSGC?

[Rosevidney1]

As was famously observed many years ago:

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
good lord a British journalist,
But seeing what the man unbribed will do
there's really no occasion to.

[5 Forward 6 Back]

Can someone explain this to my tiny mind?

He appears to have just released his own press release, saying that at some indeterminate time in the past, he served 12 years in the RAF.

.... why?

[charliegolf]

Mr David Swanton am habin £1,000,000 gratuity fir him 12, yes 12 years in the Royal Air Force. However, praise the Lord, him being abroad, and not able to access his gratuity at the present, is offering £100,000 to anyone who can facilitate the transfer of the funds to our glorious country. Phone 1-800-NigeriansRus for details.

CG

It's a template news report innit?

[BEagle]

It's a template news report innit?

It can't be - it doesn't include the word 'hero'....:rolleyes:

[500N]

or "missed school" :O

[sisemen]

Perhaps this ought to be on the "Outing a Walt" thread?

What a self-serving plonker.

[Tashengurt]

Tashengurt doesn't get this. Tashengurt did eleven years but didn't think it was that remarkable. If Tashengurt had known how special it was to do twelve Tashengurt would have stayed in.
Buffoonery.


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[Tankertrashnav]

The RAF is the aerial service branch of the British Armed Forces,


Well that's Sharky Ward told then!

[PURPLE PITOT]

Thought the siggies serviced the aerials?

[Courtney Mil]

A round of beers for mentioning that name, Tankertrashnav. :eek:

[StuartP]

Can someone explain this to my tiny mind?

He appears to have just released his own press release, saying that at some indeterminate time in the past, he served 12 years in the RAF.

.... why?

Presumably, for the same reason he released one stating that he once went to school and enjoyed it, and the one I can't be **sed linking to stating that he's going to exercise this year. I have no idea what that reason might be though.

David Swanton Announces Lifelong Interest In History (http://www.freepressbox.com/news-david-swanton-announces-lifelong-interest-in-history-220411.html)

[hoodie]

I have no idea what that reason might be though.

A cynic might think it's so that, in a Google search, the Daily Telegraph story in airborne_artist's second link is buried under piles of irrelevance.

Those of a sunnier state of mind would note that it might not be the same guy.

[HighTow]

If you look at who the media contact is in the WSJ article and follow it you'll see it's a company working in Search Engine Optimisation and On-line reputation management.

In short, I would speculate this goon (if he's even real and they aren't sending out decoys to test propagation) has basically paid someone to send out fake press releases on the wires to create a positive image of himself on t'internet for anyone searching for him.

Usually you do this when you've been a naughty boy and need to sink all the bad stuff about you appearing in Google.

[SOSL]

Maybe it's all just a rubber dick!

Rgds SOS

[StuartP]

A cynic might think it's so that, in a Google search, the Daily Telegraph story in airborne_artist's second link is buried under piles of irrelevance.

Having finally got that to open (my PC seems to be allergic to the DT !) I think you might be right.

[Ancient Squipper]

Tash
Who taught you (Halton/Cosford ?) what a "tashengurt" is.?

[Tashengurt]

AS
I hadn't heard of them until I spent way too many hours sewing them onto Phantom 'chutes at Leuchars


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[unclenelli]

12yrs is maximum time for an SAC - So he never got promoted on his own merit!