I'm absolutely incensed !!!!!!!

[Commando]

Hey Mike Stockbridge, lets not get politics mixed up with our duty of care to our Armed Forces, as has been said many times in this post, if shooting a thousand pigs so our medics/docs can practice and perhaps save one brave Marine/Soldier/Sailor/Airman (Or some poor civvy) then bring them hogs on!! And no one has said that the pigs 'lay there and suffer'. In fact they are anaesthetised and in a Veterinarian controlled environment. Reason they use pigs- because anatomically they are very similar to humans. Oh and yeah, I could shoot em, but nothing to do with being 'Hard' or not. WAR IS HELL. Soap box stowed! ;-)

[HCR]

I was about to post this but Commando beat me to it. But for emphasis, here goes anyway:

 

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During training courses, the animals are heavily anaesthetised - both before being shot and throughout exercises - and are attended at all times by veterinary staff.

 

[Mick Stockbridge]

Hey commando, you can choose whether you go to war or not.

[Mike Hill]

  Mick Stockbridge said:

You're all so hard. I wonder how many of you could actually wound a pig and let it lay there and suffer in the name of a pointless conflict.

 

We shot a Shoe together didn´t we Mick,and unlike an Animal a Shoe has a Sole.

[Pat Ferrett]

  Mick Stockbridge said:

Hey commando, you can choose whether you go to war or not.

 

The medics in a war zone dont just treat soldiers! they also treat the younge and the very old these people dont have a choice to be there.

 

I'd have no problem shooting a pig to advance the knowledge of a combat medic.

[Albedo]

I know some pigs that are more intelligent and more sentient than some tree surgeons that I have known:001_smile:

 

Maybe we should shoot tree surgeons to train combat medics:001_smile:

[born2trot]

  Albedo said:

I know some pigs that are more intelligent and more sentient than some tree surgeons that I have known:001_smile:

 

Maybe we should shoot tree surgeons to train combat medics:001_smile:

 

I was waiting on ya Albedo , where the hell were you !!!

[Mick Stockbridge]

  Mike Hill said:

We shot a Shoe together didn´t we Mick,and unlike an Animal a Shoe has a Sole.

 

I took it to the cobblers afterwards, patched him up real good....

 

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[John Barleycorn]

Whats the difference between shooting a pig in a slaughterhouse or in a military exercise?

Have you given up meat & become a vegetarian?

Become muslim?

[Pat Ferrett]

  backandpack said:

Whats the difference between shooting a pig in a slaughterhouse or in a military exercise?

Have you given up meat & become a vegetarian?

Become muslim?

 

Nah I recon they just fancy a wind up