The way it ~should~ have been done!

[Neko Bazu]

www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11630

When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt.

It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.

The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".

The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".

The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters.

I prefer their method to ours! ;D

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We are just too mamby pamby in this country.

[Neko Bazu]

I daresay at least some of our sailors would've wanted to do that, but they know they have to do it 'by the book' or face disciplinary action

Just let them get on with their jobs!

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They are trained killers who are not allowed to kill or be killed. These days it is be killed and oh you were so brave.

[Neko Bazu]

My personal stance is that if you're in a conflict zone and someone points a gun at you (civilian or otherwise) you should point a bigger one back at 'em. You don't necessarily have to fire, but you should at least be allowed to defend yourself!

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Unlike the Red Caps who were slaughtered at that police station.