|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
||||
|
||||
Sikh in Coldstream Guards 2018
__________________
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
Interestingly, also a drug user!
Quote:
|
#3
|
||||
|
||||
__________________
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina |
#4
|
||||
|
||||
Indeed.
|
#5
|
|||
|
|||
It seems drug abuse is a problem in the British army, and not just for a Sikh soldier...who perhaps because he is the first Sikh to serve in the Coldstreams, has also created a bit of attention.
To quote BBC: "Between July and October last year, 220 soldiers - including army reservists - tested positive after a compulsory drug test (CDT). Drugs found in the test were cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, ketamine, steroids, amphetamine and benzodiazepine. In January, the MoD said that it did not know how many of these 220 personnel were discharged as a result." |
#6
|
||||
|
||||
I took a drug in the army back in the 70's. They used to put it in our tea. It was called bromide or something. I think it's just beginning to work.
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
There was a rumour of this when I was at HMS Raleigh in the 80's. Not sure that it worked then, but I am of the opinion that it worked on a delay...... To late now though
|
#8
|
|||
|
|||
We had something in Germany in the 1960s, available in the NAAFI, that had the same effect as bromide, a little Dutch delight called Amstel.
|
#9
|
||||
|
||||
While some of you are looking at this from the lighter side of life (and I love that, but prefer Heineken above Amstel), there is another way of looking at this.
Where at one side he did a lot of positive things to his community (sticking to his religion: turban and uncut hair, etc.) and the army (allowing the famous warriors of history to join and thus show that it is the army of all in Britain), it now all fires back. Not only the army does not allow drugs, Sikhs are not allowed smoking, alcohol and (other) drugs, and thus I assume he has not only problems with the army, but also with his community and family. Very, very sad.
__________________
Henk Interested in the lineage of the unit your badge represents? Try: Regimental lineages |
#10
|
||||
|
||||
Indeed, lots of Crackheads around and in many armies!
Quote:
|
#11
|
||||
|
||||
If Brigadier Coles is correct in suggesting that drug users can expect to be discharged, if caught, I wonder if he has any opinion to the front page of today's Daily Mail, still never mind, it's only tax payers money.
Quote:
|
#12
|
|||
|
|||
Frank, I have no doubt that the business in the article on pages 4 and 5 will also be done at the expense of the taxpayer as well.
|
#13
|
||||
|
||||
I'm afraid you with have to narrow the field a little, this is the "Wail" after all, which particular business are you talking about?
|
#14
|
||||
|
||||
Sorry, was looking at Saturday's, not yesterdays, yes, indeed, words fail me!
I wonder what an average Thomas Atkins of a hundred years ago would make of it? |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
If I answered that question I would probably get banned from the forum for life!!!. I think it must be something in the water!!.
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|