DID YOU KNOW???

[Foamy T. Squirrel]

After WWII, Australian engineer Jack Rawnsley, along with General Motors (now a subsidiary of the UAW) designed the Holden to be manufactured in Australia for sale in Australia. As Pirate said, the loss is rather substantial (I drive an orphaned Pontiac) given its national importance.

In regards to the statement "Australia will no longer produce any of it's own cars, all will be imported, or at best, assembled locally," --- that rings a familiar bell. Welcome to the club.

Hey Pirate -- pick up one of these for me, my G6 is getting old and beat-up:

[Guest Pirate]

.....that civilians are dumb, they can't understand a simple Army naming structure. It's really quite simple.

You see, all people in the Army are soldiers, all privates are soldiers, but not all soldiers are privates. Some are officers who are commissioned, but some are officers who are not commissioned. Obviously if every private was called private it would be confusing, so some privates are called things like trooper, driver, gunner, crafts-men, sapper or signaller. Not all of the drivers actually drive because some of them cook, but we don’t call them cooks, for that matter, not all drivers are called drivers – some of them are privates or gunners. Gunners as I’m sure you know are the blokes that fire guns, unless of course they are drivers or signallers in which case we call them gunners rather than drivers or signallers just to make it clearer. All gunners belong to the artillery, except that in the infantry we have gunners who are called privates because they fire a different sort of gun, for the same reason we call our drivers and signallers private as well.

A Lance Corporal is called Corporal, unless he is a Lance Bombardier then we call him Bombardier to distinguish him from a full Bombardier, who is just like a Corporal. All other ranks are called by their rank for the sake of simplicity except that Staff Sergeants are called Staff, but they are not on the staff, some Warrant Officers, who are not officers, are called Sergeant Major although they are not Sergeants or Majors. Some Warrant Officers are called Mister which is the same thing that we call some officers but they are not Warrant Officers. A Lieutenant is also called Mister because they are subalterns, but we always write their rank as Lieutenant or Second Lieutenant, and second comes before first.

When we talk about groups of soldiers there obviously has to be clear distinction. We call them Officers and Soldiers although we know that officers are soldiers too, sometimes we talk about officers and other ranks which is the same as calling them soldiers. I guess it is easiest when we talk about rank and file which is all the troops on parade except the officers and some of the NCOs - - and a few of the privates – and the term is used whether everyone is on parade or not.

A large unit is called a battalion, unless it is a regiment but sometimes a regiment is much bigger than a battalion and then it has nothing to do with the other sort of regiment. Sub units are called companies unless they are squadrons or troops or batteries for that matter. That is not radio batteries and don’t confuse this type of troop with the type who are soldiers but not officers.

Mostly the Army is divided into Corps as well as units, not the sort of Corps which is a couple of divisions but the sort which tells you straight away what trade each man performs, whether he is a tradesmen or not. The Infantry Corps has all the infantrymen for example and the Artillery Corps has all the gunners. Both these Corps also have signallers and drivers except those who are in the Signals or Transport Corps. In fact the Signals Corps is not a service at all because it is an Arm. Arms do all the fighting, although Signals don’t have to fight too much, rather like the Engineers who are also an Arm but they don’t fight too much either

So you see, it’s really quite simple

[TBG 150]

Reads like a total Cluster Fuck to me.

[Guest Pirate]

Reads like a total Cluster Fuck to me.

You got that right, especially when you throw in all the civilians our Chain of Command employs now.

[TBG 150]

And it doesn't just apply to the Army either.

[Guest Pirate]

Australia is not immune to terrorist type activities. This article in today's paper:

A HERO cop with a “gut feeling” prevented­ a bomber from detonating two devices with more power than the Boston Marathon bombs in the heart of Sydney. 

 

Rocks Detective Sergeant Jeffrey White tracked down bomber David Lia less than two days before he planned to detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings, nails and pieces of chain outside the Sydney Eye Hospital in Macquarie St last year.

However, we are piss weak as far as the judicial system is concerned. This is what happened in court

Yesterday Lia, 43, from Albion Park, was sentenced in Wollongong District Court to three years and two months jail after pleading guilty to making explosives with intent to injure. He will be eligible for parole on April 7, 2015.

Two bombs bigger than the Boston Marathon bombs and he could be free in April 2015, less than twelve months. This is where 'Rule 303' should apply.

[TBG 150]

Good man.

Not to change the subject, but I use this photo of the Sydney Opera House as my screen background.

How I'd love to play this venue.

My second favorite, I have played. A 117 rank Ruffatti at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale FL. What a magnificent instrument.

Okay. The picture fails the security on the site and I can't post it. Weird. I'll see what I can do.

[Foamy T. Squirrel]

Did you know That on this day in history (still 25th of June for me), Communist Hellhole North Korea started a War, supplied by the Soviet Union, and supported by Communist China, by invading South Korea.

Both the USSR and Red China are members of the United Nations; and they were also the first to go to war against it.

Their client state is still a hellhole.

Some of us will never forget that War, or the troops that saved South Korea from becoming a hellhole.

[TBG 150]

That little fat doughnut eating Dicktater, what's his name?, Kim Jong Un, wants to get WWIII going this week.

I'd be good for bidnez figures Wall Street.

[Guest ww_watcher]

re: North Korean invasion. China was sending hordes of people armed with farming tools interspersed with actual armed soldiers. We knew we would run out of bullets long before they ran out of people so we enlisted the help of the Turkish Cavalry armed with old-tech weapons which don't require reloading.

China used their abundance of humans as cannon-fodder knowing they could win a battle on attrition alone.

[darkman]

DID YOU KNOW??? que la fregona y el tungsteno son inventos españoles . el submarino , el helicoptero , el chupa chups , el coctel molotov , y el peor de todos EL CIGARRILLO liado tal y como lo conocemos hoy en dia es un invento español .

[Guest ww_watcher]

Yes on the mop and the discovery of tungsten, no on the submarine (american) and helicopter (chinese had a toy that rose when it spun but the concept belongs to Signore da Vinci ), el chupa chups (piruletas?) or lollipops no argument. Molotov Cocktails sí although the name was given by the finnish as an insult to Vyacheslav Molotov some Russian ambassador. Cigarettes? The use of "tobacco" was started in the Americas previous to european discovery. The word "cigarette" is French and though the use of tobacco in this form was all the rage all over Europe it is arguable that its start was during the American Civil war.