Military Q&A

[GingerWrath]

I am completely fucked off with the anti Military stance on this site, So AIBU to be wanting to set the record straight? Ask me a question and Military people and myself will try and answer (within the Official Secrets Act)

I think there is an anti-military bias on MN, by those who won't take the time to think about the broader perspective of what HM Forces actually do, and are there for.

I also get very pissed off with the general ignorance of HM Forces = Army - there are three Armed Services of which the Army happens to be one.

Again, I get irritated with the officers = public school = gits. Not true; my Dad was an officer who came up through the ranks; my fil was a grammar school boy, and whilst my db and dh both went to private schools, they are normal human beings; both officers, one with an initial degree and one without.

I don't think that many on MN actually consider the career opportunities and training available through HM Forces; they focus on the fact that they might have to fight/go to sea etc, rather than looking at the broader picture of the training offered (academics as well) and the can do attitude that being in HM Forces engenders and makes people employable afterwards.

Well said scaryteacher. Sailors and Airmen are always forgotten. The media does it all the time!

My DH has qualifications equivalent to a degree that he has earned while he has been in.

He has been to hot and sandy places many times, he has NEVER been in combat, in fact the last time he was over there, his rifle was checked into the armoury and forgotten about until it was time to fly home again. There is far more to HM Forces than infantry soldiering!

I am terribly proud of my DH and the rest of my family who do serve or have served in the Forces but tbh I know not everyone is going to think like me and not everyone is going to have the same information as I do and I except that.

If there are people on here who are genuinely anti military then thats their opionion and they are fully entitled to it.

On the other hand I think of all the support in the general public on a whole for example, the amount of money donated to The Royal British Legion. Help for Heroes - look how much money they have raised in such a short space of time. There must be an enormous amount of support out there and this makes me happy.

So I guess I'm saying there isnt much point in trying to change peoples minds, as long as you continue to support, thats all that matters.

People are entitled to their opinions Misery - but it's the sheer bloody ignorance at times on here about what the military actually do, and the comments we get about boarding school usage; having families; Forces personnel being thick twats without any sensitivity that really get up my nose, especially as three out of the four of my relatives mentioned above have initial and post grad degrees and Chartered and Fellowship Status from their professional institutions, and my fil had a double first from Cambridge...so they aren't thick.

Being an RN daughter, wife, daughter in law and sister, hearing that the Army = HM Forces does irritate me.....and I shout at the TV as well!

lot of ignorance out there about the 3 services.

I know what you mean about Army = HM Forces, my DH is a Bootneck and EVERYBODY thinks he is in the Army!

Cant tell you how much that annoys him!

Ok tigerbomb what colour is the bloody boathouse ? because whilst it is clearly an in joke ,i will not be able to sleep unless i know .

THUD , the sound of the thread dying or possibly being assainated by some super cool SAS bods

Not particularly anti-military myself, just distinctly not pro-military.
I'm a bit bemused by the hero worship that members of the armed services receive and the "'sport out troops/ brave lads" type media reaction, but all in all it doesn't affect me so no problems with others praising them once they're happy to accept that some of us don't see what they do requiring praise or admirrable.
If that's what they want to do, fair play to them.