I'm saying goodbye

[Sirotnikov]

Take care of your men

I'll be sure to give them enough biscuits and tea breaks

Have fun and collect seastories.

I'll try to meet enough seamen to do that.

Ok that came out wrong...

I'll try to meet enough people serving in the navy to do that

[Stuie]

I'm not often in the OT forum (it seems like a disease I'm trying to avoid), and usually just lurking when I am here. But I must say I appreciate all of our Israeli posters for opening my eyes to their world view (even when I disagree). Thanks for that Siro, and best of luck!

[Sirotnikov]

I'm not often in the OT forum (it seems like a disease I'm trying to avoid), and usually just lurking when I am here.

Yeah right You can run but you can hide from the OT

[The Mad Monk]

Good luck Siro, you will be missed!

Um...how long has your avatar been winking?

[vlad]

Dasvidaniya Siro, good luck in all things, and keep your head down when the shotting starts :-)

[Sarxis]

Cya. Come back soon.

[Mercator]

Very inspiring first post there...

Good luck!

[Sirotnikov]

thanks everyone

and keep your head down when the shotting starts :-)

eh, if the shooting starts where I will sit, we'll all be glowing

[Sirotnikov]

Um...how long has your avatar been winking?

I have no idea what are you talking about


errr.... I mean

[TCO]

Go Navy. Beat Army.

[Chemical Ollie]

Now you will finally learn to jog wearing a gas mask I remember you complaining about the inconvenience of wearing a gas mask six months ago. Now it is time to prove that you are a man.

When I was your age, we did not consider a man a MAN if he had not yet been in the military. Now only a 3rd of the Swedish men are conscripted, so those rules don't apply to us any more.

[Sirotnikov]

TCO I'm neither in the navy nor the army.

It's its own thing.

Now you will finally learn to jog wearing a gas mask I remember you complaining about the inconvenience of wearing a gas mask six months ago. Now it is time to prove that you are a man.

That will only happen with my basic training in 6 months from now.

When I was your age, we did not consider a man a MAN if he had not yet been in the military. Now only a 3rd of the Swedish men are conscripted, so those rules don't apply to us any more.

hehe you couch potatos

Btw, you were and still are the only person in my ignore list, after you thought what your friend did in Israel was funny. But I keep perssing the button to read your posts, so I may change that.

[laurentius]

Are you going somewhere near the nuclear silos?

[Eli]

I think he was talking about Tel Aviv, or any other major population center.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

Btw, you were and still are the only person in my ignore list, after you thought what your friend did in Israel was funny. But I keep perssing the button to read your posts, so I may change that.

I have no problem to understand my buddie's love-hate relationship with Israel. Whenever he got shot at, it was your army who were the bad guys. Israel has no respect at all for blue helmets and UN flags. I remember one time when a Swede and a French foreign legionerie on food delivery service to an outpost was taken hostage by some terrorists. Israel took care of the terrorist by killing both them and the hostages. I heard it on the radio news and called my buddies' mother to ask if he was safe. She did not know yet. 4 months later he came home and told us what had happened.

Only the French guy survived with a severe wound through the thorax. My buddy was in the UN team who arrived to pick up the casualties. He personally put the Swedish body bag in the freezer.

On other occations, whenever some lunatics fired some shots at Israeli border posts, they went berzerk with heavy machine guns and did not differ between foes and neutrals. Numerous UN personnel lost their life that way. My buddy had photos of the pools of blood left by several such events.

A month or two ago, a UN resolution stated that it is a crime of war to attack personnel under UN flag (a consequense of the bombing against the UN office in Baghdad). Despite this, Israeli soldiers fired blindly across the border to Lebanon as late as this week, hitting UN vehicles.

On the other hand, Israel was the only Western-oriented country in the region where the UN soldiers could go on leave, party at discos, drink their brains out and pick up local chicks. So they developed a love-hate relationship with the country. It is easy to understand their mixed emotions, given your army's lack of respect for the UN.