Except that they're confined to barra... er, tents!

I feel the same as Winco at post 154.

Yes, service boys and girls have no automatic entitlement to financial compensation. However, you can bet your life that MOD will charge G4 a fortune for their services and they will see little or nothing of this fortune.

Hammonds promise that nobody will be out of pocket is hollow.
Did anyone ever try to claim Duty Mileage for there car?
I doubt many will see a penny.

dalek:

London 2012: G4S 'only knew eight days ago' of staff shortage
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

Having just seen your new Commanding Oficer for the next six weeks - (Nick Buckles G4S) on TV, the fisrt thing you should do is march him off down to the station barber.

They're probably all confined to site to stop them telling all and sundry how peed off they are at their lot. Wouldn't do for some journo to run with the story that whilst Their Airships are all saying how pleased the boys and girls are to be able to help in this way that the boys and girls are making mutinous mutterings about the way they are being treated, especially the confined to camp bit.

I'm glad I'm out now and feel really sorry for the people "fingered" for this duty.

Doc C

From the Navy News website:

Most have been told not to take the own cars as they will be no space for parking at Halton ! Also breakfast will be served 2-4 am !! they will then be bussed to Olympics for their 12 hour day !!

You're joking, surely? There are plenty of open spaces which can be used for car parking.

Perhaps that underwhelming little w@nquerre Coe might like to experience what a day supporting his Lordship's overblown sports day is actually like?

If I hear that stupid strapline mantra "...Delivering a safe and secure Games" trotted out once more, I will probably barf....:yuk: It's almost North Korean in the way it appears on everything and anything connected with this ridiculous farce of jockstrappery.

With any luck this wet summer will continue for a few more weeks yet....

Rumour has it they are having to fill in more than just simply guarding the place.


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I'm so glad I'm missing this fiasco by going OOA for 4 months, as a married dad of 2 it's not often I'd rather be in the middle east than in the capital city of my country! Less working hours, more sun and much better food and lodgings. I can speak to my kids every day plus where I'm going I'm not confined to camp, loads of lads/lasses off my Sqn are "Helping" and I really feel for them.

''You really couldn't make all of this up unless you were writing a script for a typical British comedy show. It's my guess that the "Twenty-Twelve" TV show must be gleaning all of their material from PPRuNe!''

if you put the truth down on paper and tried to sell it to the BBC - it would be rejected as being too implausible. I bet the Chinese didn't have a problem finding people for security for thri Olypics four years ago!

Are the chaps and chapettes manning the missile batteries issued small arms to defend themselves and their weapons, or does that responsibility fall to plod?

I too was pondering the situational irony of having Her Majesty's finest standing there smartly in their cotton combats, armed with nothing but a hard stare, whilst plod swans around in a stab vest and a MP5 in their mitts.

Confident I could help out in some way, (You know, retired ex-military, high level clearance, still fit etc etc) I offered my services to G4S over a year ago - and didn`t even get an acknowledgement.... Ho Hum - I guess my inability to speak Polish or Swahili went against me....;)

What this whole debacle says is that providing "Aid to the Civil Power" is still a major but very unpredictable issue. Clearly (to me anyway) the impending sacking of 20,000 troops is somewhat ill advised. :confused:

So...A message for that nice Mr Cameron and his cronies is:

"REPENT - BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!"

..or maybe it is too late already?:\

As someone said on another site, even Caesar wouldn't have been daft enough to sack 20,000 of his best troops then invite them to Rome for the Games..



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"....a safe and secure games...."
 

I saw an interesting comment in today's telegraph, that 130,000 condoms were made available in the atheletes village for the Athens games, while at Sydney 70,000 were available (all of which were given out).

I guess that is one way of making the games "safe"....

I wonder how many are available at the Olympic village in London (anyone for an FOI request?)?



Perhaps we should be asking the papers to run headlines such as...

"MOD troops give up their holiday to guard atheletes shagfest"!!! :(

Plenty of parking available at RAF Halton for the RAF that are staying there as part of the VSF - the RAF Joining Instruction applies and not the shoddy LONDIST effort.

I'm taking mine and I hope it won't be alone!

LJ

If you park on what was the old airframe end carpark up from the Guardroom, you may see my test piece if they haven't resurfaced it, they were doing it when I was there and I put my test piece in front of the steam roller and the nice guy pressed it into the Tarmac for me :E

Our illustrious mates over in the brown forum have a 42 page bitchfest going on.
I do feel some sympathy for anyone dicked for covering sports day.

However - you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined.......
if you are lucky you might get a shiny new button out of it.

And what's a gong worth?

It doesn't count for owt at Asda.