ARTHUR: FAYE SAVED ME

Mirror.co.uk ^ | 09/04/2007 | By Chris Hughes, Security Correspondent And Robert Stansfield

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Man-o-Man! If this is the temper of most of the British forces, I see why Blair backed down.

Iran would prolly take em if the Brits started a fight!

What are these people doing in the Military???????

Sorry. I know that I don't know how I'd react when faced with torture. nobody whos not in that position really knows.

But this is simply ridiculous.

"cried like a baby."

This is what the papers paid for? Man I'd crawl under a rock before I'd tell the world that!

How can you tell if a military is worth a crap? Check if the women are stronger, than the men.

That seems to be the case with the Brit military.

[Xenalyte]

That guy looks just like Giovanni Ribisi! Y'all remember Medic Wade from Saving Private Ryan?

[SevenofNine]

OMG what p***y

[jagusafr]

That was before the days of eternal victimhood, I think...I keep seeing a mental image of what Patton’s response would have been. Kinda makes me chuckle...

Colonel, USAFR

[murdoog]

I'm surprised she didn't try to nurse him while she was at it.

Maybe that's what he was angling for all along, the sly devil.

[Sterlis]

This article is unbelievable. I keep rereading it with increasing disbelief that this is what the British Navy really is. Listen to this puffery:

“was desperate to phone home to tell Molly mum was going to be on the telly”

This guy in comparison to Mr. Rogers makes Mr. Rogers look like the Terminator.

[The KG9 Kid]

This episode is shameful.

Probably the biggest sissies I think I've ever seen.

[The Blitherer]

I keep seeing a mental image of what Patton’s response would have been.

I think Patton would have gotten kicked out of the military over this guy. :-)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"I can't describe how that felt...just every emotion rolled into one. I ran up to her, threw my arms round her and cried like a baby.

"When I'd calmed down, she asked, 'Do you need another hug, a mother hug?' and I said, 'damn right'. She was just as pleased to see me because they'd told her I'd been sent home.

"Topsy said she'd always be there for me, to protect me and look after me.

Look, I've never served and I have no idea how I'd have reacted to being taken prisoner when I was that young, but in spite of all that I have to say this just sounds pathetic coming out of the mouth of a soldier.

[zarf]

lol. the old Monty Python gay Marine squad drill gag is coming true!

[johnny7]

“And he revealed that the hardest part of his nightmare in Tehran was when he was separated from mum-of-one Faye - who he said was like a big sister to him”

Faggot...

[Sterlis]

Now I’m dying! I had forgotten about that skit and the mental image is priceless. Thanks for the laugh!

[5thGenTexan]

Ok, if no one else will...let me:

With a nickname like Topsy WE NEED PIX!!!

:-)

[AZLiberty]

Sounds like a bunch of 10-year-olds during a thunderstorm at summer camp.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

There was a retired Lieutenant Colonel on O'Reilly last week that said that this group of soldiers and sailors will be slowly separated from the military because they are so disgraceful.

He also said that the reason they were captured in the first place is that the Iranians had been watching the boat patrols for quite a while and picked this group because they were the slackest and loosest of the bunch. Thus easier to capture and subdue.

[SIDENET]

Geez. This article makes me sick.

[mass55th]

"There was a retired Lieutenant Colonel on O'Reilly last week that said that this group of soldiers and sailors will be slowly separated from the military because they are so disgraceful."

One would hope that they would be shunned by the rest of the military.

[Peter Libra]

My God.

Please, this is not blasphemy. I look back on my days (nothing fancy mind you) as a conscript soldier in 1950. A bunch of right lads, all of 18 years old. Eventually enjoying the kind hospitality of the Egyptian people, while serving on the Suez Canal. (Sarc) I recall the sneering, sadistic British Army regular corporal(s) in basic training at Catterick, Yorks. With a faces like a twisted Sean Penn. Shouting at some bewildered conscript. "I will bloody well 'ave you!". and "I will make yer mother cry to see you".

We were only Signals at that. Stories of the incredible training of the "Gawds" and the Marines. The conscripts were even worse, talking in awed tones of "real soldiers". Stories of corporals being told to address the elite as "trained soldier". Making us feel like utterly useless human beings.

Finally our Officers loosened up. One of the prime psychogical tactics of the British Army. At the pass out parade, this was said. "A creditable performance lads. Now go out and show them that we British are top dogs".

My apologies, this should be a vanity. I ask this - where are the hatchet faced hard men, the ruthless professionals of the British Army?

Carry on S'arnt Majah.

[Chode]

able seaman Arthur said:

that's a sick joke... wuss-ass is more like it.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I think Patton would have shot HIMSELF rather than continue to be a part of a Military that even allowed this kind of “thing” in it’s ranks.

(I know he wouldn’t have, but I know he wouldn’t have served with a Military that condoned and allowed this)