You're in the Army now (LYING BBC reporter who joined to expose bullying may be sent to war)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | September 19, 2008 | John Kay

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You're in the Army now

 

Undercover ... Russell Sharp in training

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By JOHN KAY
Chief Reporter

Published: Today

 

A BBC reporter who joined the Army to expose bullying may be sent to war, it emerged yesterday.

Russell Sharp, 25, did 15 weeks before lying so he could quit on “compassionate” grounds.

And last night after furious top brass found out who he was they threatened to haul him back to complete his training — and send him into action.

Senior officers hit the roof because Sharp, whose TV film Undercover Soldier was screened on Thursday, had only a week left of the 16-week course at Catterick, North Yorks, when he said his “girlfriend” was expecting.

She turned out to be a fellow undercover Beeb reporter who was NOT pregnant.

One of the officers demanding Sharp be held to the four-year stint he signed up for stormed: “It cost £19,000 to train him and now we are one soldier down. It would teach him a lesson.”

Sharp’s programme did not show any filmed evidence of ill-treatment, though he claimed to have witnessed it.

The MoD refused to comment but a senior source confirmed: “The Army could bring Private Sharp back to finish his training. We could even consider options to deploy him to Iraq or Afghanistan.”

 

j.kay@the-sun.co.uk

[MarkL]

Latrine duty for 4 years...

Or the stockade.

Mark

[Cheburashka]

Last name’s Sharp(e), eh? Well then, put him in The Rifles, the regiment of his great-great-great-grandfather.

[sergeantdave]

Show the worm what “point man” means.

[Arrowhead1952]

Need a liar? PING.

[festus]

Deploy him and then fall back from his position.

[Allegra]

Make him serve his full enlistment assigned to the most unpleasant, but non-mission critical, tasks.

Cleaning the Porta-Johns at Camp Victory.

The Arabic ones.

[joma89]

What is that phrase again? Oh yes, “Poetic justice”

JoMa

[manc]

I am nearly falling off the chair here.

So he’s seen it but never filmed it, LOL

then he lies about getting out and then the donkey makes the lrogramme showing nothing.

Now he could be recalled to finish his training and sent to a war..

As an x Brit soldier I say send the muppet to war and let him infact make hiim do his 4 years.

I guarantee that he’ll be coming back with not such a pansy view of the Army.

Let this be a lesson for the other liberal journo’s out there too.

O How I would love to see the muppet sent to check on an I.E.D. while coming under small arms fire.

[Ancient Drive]

So he’s seen it but never filmed it, LOL it's called fake but accurate here in America, a term given birth by the great Dan Rather /s

[lowbridge]

bump