Serviceman threatened with knife outside RAF base
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a thread
Posts: 32,855
Received 2,810 Likes
on
1,197 Posts
Serviceman threatened with knife outside RAF base
See
Police hunt two men who threatened airman with knife at RAF Marham
BTW Since when did stations start adding tacky company advertising to the main gate signs?
Police hunt two men who threatened airman with knife at RAF Marham
BTW Since when did stations start adding tacky company advertising to the main gate signs?
Guest
Posts: n/a
Tacky? Or is it the sad fact that enough people from each of those companies now work on the base and each logo is just like the unit patches above? At least it doesn't say "Cillit Bang and the terrorist is gone".
Anyway, good to hear no one hurt
Anyway, good to hear no one hurt
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Home
Posts: 3,399
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Over at ARRSE, a poster claiming inside info says two "dusky chaps" were involved. The victim, who is a Rock, fought them off and police have tested him for DNA traces.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Definitely not terrorist related - just two innocent assailants of middle east appearance.
The report says he was out jogging, one man tackled him and he knocked him to the ground. The second had a knife but went to the assistance of his associate. The Rock sensibly departed.
The report says he was out jogging, one man tackled him and he knocked him to the ground. The second had a knife but went to the assistance of his associate. The Rock sensibly departed.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: The real world
Posts: 446
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Not that the guy involved was wearing uniform but I never understood why the relaxation of uniform off base came into effect after the IRA threat diminished.
Never used to wear mine off base, Tesco and Asda is full of guys and girls in uniform these days and always saw it as a risk.
Never used to wear mine off base, Tesco and Asda is full of guys and girls in uniform these days and always saw it as a risk.
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Lincolnshire
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If that Rock had sorted those two assailants out 'good and proper' (there are a few I remember who could easily have done so..), who do you think would have been prosecuted?
Yep, thought so. Salaam Alaikum.
Yep, thought so. Salaam Alaikum.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: East Anglia
Posts: 1,873
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Wearing of uniform in public
I like to see the uniform on display outside the wire, reminds the public the Armed Forces exist. You all know they exist because you frequent this website, but, given the attention span of the public is more limited than my brain damaged goldfish, if the Armed Forces aren't in the face of the public they will be forgotten about. TBH around places like Colchester, Marham or Portsmouth you can pick out a serviceman in civvies at a hundred yards as poor Fusilier Rigby found out. Put it on, wear it with pride, and if you're aircrew don't slouch round with your hands in your pockets.
The wearing of uniform off duty clearly poses a risk to the wearer in these **** times.
I never served in uniform, but spent most of 41 years service alongside the RAF. Living near Stamford, I often see lads and lasses in uniform in town and in the shops. I feel the better for it, but I don't want someone to die for my buzz.
**** times indeed.
I never served in uniform, but spent most of 41 years service alongside the RAF. Living near Stamford, I often see lads and lasses in uniform in town and in the shops. I feel the better for it, but I don't want someone to die for my buzz.
**** times indeed.
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a thread
Posts: 32,855
Received 2,810 Likes
on
1,197 Posts
Gawd, you couldn't make it up, no doubt it all came from a photograph of the document some MP was carrying into Drowning Street. 
If it wasn't so serious, it would be a farce.
If it wasn't so serious, it would be a farce.
You can almost guarantee to see RN and other military personnel from Culdrose in uniform in the Helston branch of Tesco. I am always pleased to see them, and if time and circumstances permit I try and have a word or two with them (I exchanged a cheerful "good morning" with a captain, USAF the other day), although when this involves chatting with attractive female personnel (can't call them Wrens any more) it usually results in a few black looks from Mrs TTN!
Common sense has to prevail, of course, but I'd hate to see the services go back to the days of the 70s when we never wore uniform in public.
Common sense has to prevail, of course, but I'd hate to see the services go back to the days of the 70s when we never wore uniform in public.
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: South of France
Posts: 1,035
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
According to the latest from the BBC, it sounds like the Rock in question 'dealt with them accordingly'. If we are 'at war' with terrorists, maybe the time has come for our service personnel to be armed at all times. That would nip this in the bud.
RAF Marham: Serviceman threatened with knife treated as abduction - BBC News
RAF Marham: Serviceman threatened with knife treated as abduction - BBC News
This incident also calls into question the advisability of using headphones on both ears at a volume level that, in effect, renders the runner deaf to any audible danger signals - not to mention friendly or hostile calls from passers-by.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: The real world
Posts: 446
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Arming all service personnel at all times!! that's a joke right?
Get off your high bloody horses about posting docs online, this thread is about a serious attempt to capture an Airman by probable terrorists.
Is it right posting it? no, is it dangerous and is the document important? no!
Chill out and look at the real story here.
Get off your high bloody horses about posting docs online, this thread is about a serious attempt to capture an Airman by probable terrorists.
Is it right posting it? no, is it dangerous and is the document important? no!
Chill out and look at the real story here.
According to the latest from the BBC, it sounds like the Rock in question 'dealt with them accordingly'. If we are 'at war' with terrorists, maybe the time has come for our service personnel to be armed at all times. That would nip this in the bud.