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random Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2637 Gender:	Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued? Reply #15 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:55pm This was the one I meant to post. Seriously I have not seen a more staged and demeaning pic ... of a man we would like to respect. This is just wrong. He even trims his armpits FFS.
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Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued?
Reply #16 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:56pm

freediver wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:37pm:

I didn't know you had to be softly spoken to win a VC. I guess that's just the military for you.

and I take it we should be ashamed of them and hide them away until one day they die.. and someone says OH LOOK there is a new VC medal in the War Memorial with the name Ben Roberts-Smith... why on earth didnt we know this guy when he was alive???>...

because we hide our real HERO"S..

that way its easier to worship those who play footy [ trueblue heros]because we know they have feet of clay and end up looking more like us, than the likes of real VC winners...

Ben hang your head in shame mate...

you shouldnt be on show...we only do real HERO"S after they die..

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Reply #17 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:04pm

random wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:55pm:

This was the one I meant to post.

Seriously I have not seen a more staged and demeaning pic ... of a man we would like to respect. This is just wrong. He even trims his armpits for goodness sake.

https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/120229/a_240212genrobertssmith3_17kqpm2-17kqpm3.jpg

so what of it sock?

that's the sort of training we did on a regular basis when I was in the defence forces...

that pic is just the norm...

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freediver Gold Member Online www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 52526 At my desk.	Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued? Reply #18 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:08pm But you didn't make random jealous.
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Reply #19 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:10pm

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:04pm:

random wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:55pm:

This was the one I meant to post.

Seriously I have not seen a more staged and demeaning pic ... of a man we would like to respect. This is just wrong. He even trims his armpits for goodness sake.

https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/120229/a_240212genrobertssmith3_17kqpm2-17kqpm3.jpg

so what of it sock?

that's the sort of training we did on a regular basis when I was in the defence forces...

that pic is just the norm...

this man would have done it IN FULL KIT...maybe even carrying a wounded mate lets see these little narks do that... Angry

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Reply #20 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:11pm

cods wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:56pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:37pm:

I didn't know you had to be softly spoken to win a VC. I guess that's just the military for you.

and I take it we should be ashamed of them and hide them away until one day they die.. and someone says OH LOOK there is a new VC medal in the War Memorial with the name Ben Roberts-Smith... why on earth didnt we know this guy when he was alive???>...

because we hide our real HERO"S..

that way its easier to worship those who play footy [ trueblue heros]because we know they have feet of clay and end up looking more like us, than the likes of real VC winners...

Ben hang your head in shame mate...

you shouldnt be on show...we only do real HERO"S after they die..

Nah cods. Get out of the schmedia fluffery. VC winners are not supposed to be trophies of the Government. It ought be a private thing. They are manipulating this bloke and his tattoed finely tuned body........why, cods?

There has been another VC winner since this muscled w anker. How come we never hear from him, cods? Do you think it might have anything to do with his mere physical stature?

His name is Daniel Keighran, and he is a bloke of (comparatively not so) small stature and is smart (or maybe that is ....dumb) enough not to be paraded around as a trophy of Australia.

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innocentbystander. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4723 Gender:	Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued? Reply #21 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:13pm The guy has likely killed muslim terrorists, thats something that a lefty can never forgive.
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Reply #22 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:20pm

innocentbystander. wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:13pm:

The guy has likely killed muslim terrorists, thats something that a lefty can never forgive. Sad

oh i hadnt thought of that....

of course if he was kissing shortarses arse he would be A>OK...well for a little while like Peter Garrett.. Grin

.. when the shine wears off...

they find rotten maggots underneath they soon split.

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Reply #23 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:24pm

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Roberts-Smith was deployed to Afghanistan on six occasions, in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012....

Victoria Cross for Australia For most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril on 11 June 2010, while deployed on Operation SLIPPER, Afghanistan.[4]

Medal for Gallantry For gallantry in action in hazardous circumstances as a patrol sniper while deployed on Operation SLIPPER, Afghanistan, May–September 2006.[4]

Commendation for Distinguished Service For distinguished performance of duty in warlike operations as a patrol commander with the Special Operations Task Group on Operation SLIPPER.[10]

Australian Active Service Medal with clasps for EAST TIMOR,[4] ICAT and IRAQ 2003

International Force East Timor Medal (INTERFET)

Afghanistan Medal Operation SLIPPER

Iraq Medal Operation CATALYST

Australian Service Medal with clasp for CT/SR (Counter Terrorism / Special Recovery)

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012[18]

Defence Long Service Medal For 15 Years' Service

Australian Defence Medal

United Nations Medal with UNAMET ribbon for active service in Timor-Leste (East Timor)

NATO Medal for the Non-Article 5 ISAF Operation in Afghanistan with

Unit Citation for Gallantry with Federation Star[19] [19

Meritorious Unit Citation with Federation Star Special Operations Task Group (Task Force 66)[20]

Infantry Combat Badge

oh dear..

any wonder the forum welfare loafers are humiliated.. Embarrassed

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Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued?
Reply #24 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:26pm

cods wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:20pm:

innocentbystander. wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:13pm:

The guy has likely killed muslim terrorists, thats something that a lefty can never forgive. Sad

oh i hadnt thought of that....

of course if he was kissing shortarses arse he would be A>OK...well for a little while like Peter Garrett.. Grin

.. when the shine wears off...

they find rotten maggots underneath they soon split.

cods.....when was he 'kissing' the arse of Shorten, or even asked to 'kiss' the arse of Shorten?

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Reply #25 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:35pm

cods wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:10pm:

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:04pm:

random wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:55pm:

This was the one I meant to post.

Seriously I have not seen a more staged and demeaning pic ... of a man we would like to respect. This is just wrong. He even trims his armpits for goodness sake.

https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/120229/a_240212genrobertssmith3_17kqpm2-17kqpm3.jpg

so what of it sock?

that's the sort of training we did on a regular basis when I was in the defence forces...

that pic is just the norm...

this man would have done it IN FULL KIT...maybe even carrying a wounded mate lets see these little narks do that... Angry

I think you are full of it. Pics of soldiers, shirts off doing the same thing. Standing by ....

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Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued?
Reply #26 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:36pm

random wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:35pm:

cods wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:10pm:

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:04pm:

random wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:55pm:

This was the one I meant to post.

Seriously I have not seen a more staged and demeaning pic ... of a man we would like to respect. This is just wrong. He even trims his armpits for goodness sake.

https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/120229/a_240212genrobertssmith3_17kqpm2-17kqpm3.jpg

so what of it sock?

that's the sort of training we did on a regular basis when I was in the defence forces...

that pic is just the norm...

this man would have done it IN FULL KIT...maybe even carrying a wounded mate lets see these little narks do that... Angry

I think you are full of it and emotional. Pics of soldiers, shirts off doing the same thing. Standing by ....

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Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued?
Reply #27 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:38pm

cods wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:20pm:

innocentbystander. wrote on Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:13pm:

The guy has likely killed muslim terrorists, thats something that a lefty can never forgive. Sad

oh i hadnt thought of that....

of course if he was kissing shortarses arse he would be A>OK...well for a little while like Peter Garrett.. Grin

.. when the shine wears off...

they find rotten maggots underneath they soon split.

The evolutionary path that the left follows demands that they hate the military, the left has no regards for borders, its leftist brain is telling it that the best way forward for its own survival is to join with like minded people of other cultures rather than the whole of the people within its own borders.

In that regard they will support the people that kill their own warriors as long as those people follow the same leftist evolutionary path, once upon a time that support was thrown behind the communists but now its fairly and squarely thrown behind radical islam.

The left fear competition and would rather surrender any day than fight, this is why they want to capitulate to the muslim because not only do they then not have to fight ( their worse nightmare ) but also by joining forces with the muslim they can defeat their other one true nightmare the highly competitive capitalistic system, a system that they cannot compete in, cannot advance in, and therefore dread.

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random Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2637 Gender:	Re: Has the Victoria Cross been devalued? Reply #28 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 10:43pm And the dumb sheeple of the planet have bought the supplied story of left/right extremism. Easily spotted.
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Reply #29 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 11:18pm

Not yet - but they're working on it.

Like photo ops for politicians, it has become a political football.. shameful, really.

This is not to denigrate those who've earned it.. but it has been a political football since Vietnam.... sorry 'bout that......

Again - those who've received it don't consider themselves extraordinary - they know their mates would do the same under the circumstances and that any award is for the unit as a whole. They also suspect politics is behind it, but, like Peter Cosgrove as G-G, they can fit that into their creed of being non-political.

"Our hearts are pure - it's the politicians who've screwed us all." - anonymous 101st Airborne Trooper, Vietnam 1969.

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