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Originally Posted by martyh

Which in fairness is usually the attitude of people with little or no knowledge of how the armed forces think and work .
When i was in the RE's it was drilled into us from day one that pride in your regiment is paramount ,being a soldier of any rank in the British Forces (or any branch for that matter) meant being the best in the world and any soldier who did not have that attitude didn't last long and those that bought disrepute to the forces like the Marine has done will be dealt with ,there will be no leniency because he is "one of our boys" and nor should there be

Spot on