Leadership - A Different View
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Ed,
Just to go of at a tangent for a sec (and I do agree with your last post). If politicians are so influenced by public opinion why then have they just lowered the homosexual consent age when it was quite clearly against the majority opinion.
I raise this because our current government seem quite fond of this sort of stunt (did you want homosexuality legalised in the armed forces?)
Just to go of at a tangent for a sec (and I do agree with your last post). If politicians are so influenced by public opinion why then have they just lowered the homosexual consent age when it was quite clearly against the majority opinion.
I raise this because our current government seem quite fond of this sort of stunt (did you want homosexuality legalised in the armed forces?)
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Albert Schweitzer said:
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing."
Unfortunately I've seen some pretty crud "examples" in the RAF - Bill Wratten (Chinook), Sandy Wilson (curtains) and Peter Harding (Bienv. Buck) to name but 3!!!!! Wratten is being covered at the mo on other threads. Wilson was making people redundant at the time he was feathering his nest with public money and Harding was caught shortly after he had re-issued "thou shalt not commit adultery" type orders.
I much prefer Samuel Goldwyn's words:
"I don't want 'yes men' around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth ... even if it costs them their jobs."
Nil and I have always practised this. We have both been threatened with loss of our jobs on more than one occasion. Two fingers to the lot of them. I despise those who are scared of rocking the boat - where the hell is their backbone. How can those in the armed forces think of themselves as 'professional' if all that matters is back-stabbing your way to the next stripe.
That's not why any of the services exist, is it chaps.
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing."
Unfortunately I've seen some pretty crud "examples" in the RAF - Bill Wratten (Chinook), Sandy Wilson (curtains) and Peter Harding (Bienv. Buck) to name but 3!!!!! Wratten is being covered at the mo on other threads. Wilson was making people redundant at the time he was feathering his nest with public money and Harding was caught shortly after he had re-issued "thou shalt not commit adultery" type orders.
I much prefer Samuel Goldwyn's words:
"I don't want 'yes men' around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth ... even if it costs them their jobs."
Nil and I have always practised this. We have both been threatened with loss of our jobs on more than one occasion. Two fingers to the lot of them. I despise those who are scared of rocking the boat - where the hell is their backbone. How can those in the armed forces think of themselves as 'professional' if all that matters is back-stabbing your way to the next stripe.
That's not why any of the services exist, is it chaps.
[This message has been edited by The Mistress (edited 05 December 2000).]
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My Lord Blackadder
Myself, Mrs Ploppy and young Ploppy McPlop of the Clan McPlop suggest you could do far worse than 'hae a wee lookie' at Capt Mick O'Leary's:
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Look at the articles "Tigers can't live in a box" and "Where have all the tigers gone?"
Myself, Mrs Ploppy and young Ploppy McPlop of the Clan McPlop suggest you could do far worse than 'hae a wee lookie' at Capt Mick O'Leary's:
<A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/RegimentalRogue/" TARGET="_blank">http://members.tripod.com/RegimentalRogue/</A>
Look at the articles "Tigers can't live in a box" and "Where have all the tigers gone?"
