Posted on 09/19/2008 9:08:40 PM PDT by Stoat
Undercover ... Russell Sharp in training
BBC/Kent News and Pics
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.”
BBC NEWS UK 'I did two jobs - reporter and soldier'
(Article not posted because Free Republic rules require excerpting of BBC stories....videos available at BBC site as well)
Hah!
Deploy the SOB.
Make him serve his full enlistment assigned to the most unpleasant, but non-mission critical, tasks.
I was thinking the same thing
Let him go, and it sets a HUGELY dangerous precident, yes. You’ll have them coming out of the woodwork from all angles.
11 Bravo his ass to The Sandbox!
I hope he enjoys all the lovely humping...
Send him off to Afghanistan. It’d not too cold there....... Yet.....
PLEASE!!!
Bring him back and then do deploy him to Afghanistan. Maybe then he will find out what all that NCO “bullying” was all about...to keep his sorry back side alive when facing the enemy.
I dunno - assign him to EOD and he'll have a real performance incentive.
deploy that sob..
Bwahahaa! Smooth move azwipe!
“OK heres the plan mate, you take this stick and run ahead- poke that box to see if its safe for the rest of us to cross...just like before..”
He joins to document “bullying” and claims he witnessed it but didn’t film it. What a failure.
Surprise! Hahahaha.
Isn’t there a post to be walked in the Falklands with his name on it? How long is a British Army hitch?
Like cleaning the latrines in Afganistan...
Put him on point... that way the other guys won't have to watch their backs.
Certainly bring him back for his 4 years. He should deploy as any other soldier based on where he is needed. But certainly they should make him serve his entire 4 years. That will put an end to such tricks.
Send him to Afghanistan but give him permanent Loo detail, especially the detail of burning the 100-liter petrol drums full of crap.
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