RAF scrambles two fighter jets to intercept Latvian cargo plane over London

Blackleaf

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I used to hang out with the Royal Irish Rangers at the NAAFI in West Berlin. They were a bunch of wild men for sure.

We need wild men in the British Army. In fact, it often recruits violent thugs who have spent years taking part in violent gang battles on the streets of our major cities or mugging 20st nightclub bouncers. British Army soldiers are usually battle-hardened people you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley right from the moment they join up. As Wellington pointed out, the British Army recruits violent scum fresh from the streets, so it's been happening at least 200 years.
 

Cannuck

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The Hat is a f-cking sh-t hole in the desert.

...says the guy living in Regina.

I am. British armed service personnel are not only the BEST in the world but they're also the bravest.

Must be the worst of the worst that come over to train at BATUS.

British Army soldiers are usually battle-hardened people you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley right from the moment they join up.

That's odd because I saw one get a beat down by an Alberta cowgirl that weighed maybe 120 pounds. Bloodied him pretty good.

No, I haven't. Still mean to take it in. Cool name.

City of Medicine Hat : What's in a Name
 

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Looks like we have another case of someone who believes that every major operation of WWII involved mainly Canadians.

Any effective, major operation involved anyone but the British... And yes, a multiplicity of those operations involved Canadians

Thirty Canadians took part in the Dambusters raid (using Barnes Wallis's ingenious bouncing bombs), out of a total of almost 150 men.

Wallis did not invent the bouncing bomb... It's a Canadian innovation that was employed to remove beaver dams. We'd been using that for years before it was in a military application

By the by, the Britons were allocated the responsibility for checking the tire pressure of the planes, fetching coffee and cleaning out the latrines. That doesn't count as dambusting