Viewpoints of a former member of The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
Reuters have the story about the French troops killing unarmed civilians in the Ivory Coast LAST Tuesday. So now we have mainline news agencies (including LA Times etc), videos of the actual killings and other evidence and yet......A week later and still nothing on the BBC at all.....now if that had been US Marines -oof! Front page, Newsnight and on Blue Peter as well!
After 23 years in the British Army (Queen's Own Highlanders etc) now recently qualified as an English and History teacher. 80% disabled (55% deaf and 25% lame) due to Army service so don't expect me to run if there's a bomb....throw me on top of it and save yourselves! 
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When I first joined the Army I was taught the role of Infantry was: "To seek and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize and hold ground, by day or by night regardless of weather or terrain"
It didn't include that my role was to roll over and take a kicking from a self serving sensationalist media there to criticise with clinical detail every move I made on the battlefield from the comfort of a climate controlled office in order to allow them to get some middle class human rights person (on the BBC) and continue to undermine the morale of the troops. (A comment that says it all…..)
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