Diesels don’t use battery power other than to start, no spark plug. However thinking about it they are fuel injected so do draw some power but it won’t be more than supplied by the alternator, likely it’ll be a fuel issue, haven’t been filling it with unleaded (wife, kids or GF) have you?

6/10 had to try to get it wrong.

IanMunro – Member

Likewise the likes of Blair declaring that they decide to go into Irag because God told them to is deeply worrying to me.

I do so hope that’s not true, I hate than man beyond even the loathing I have for Brown, Cameron & Osbourne, where did you read that?
He should be prosecuted for war crimes never mind condemning the odd marine to life imprisonment for some thing he brought about ultimately.

Junkyard – lazarus
only the Brits would prosecute one of their own for killing the enemy.

I think you are unclear as to how many countries have signed the Geneva convention and are somewhat ignorant of international law
The main problem is the soldier new exactly what he was doing and he does not seem to have lost his cool and reacted. He deliberately decides to kill someone in breach of the law and openly acknowledges this on the tape. Its not even the “heat of battle”.

Certain irony there accusing me of ignorance, Someone who can’t spell knew.

I’m perfectly aware of the Geneva convention thank you, it’s just a shame it’s only our side who enjoy enforcing it against their own, show me some examples of the Taliban enforcing it.

lazybike – Member
I think there is an energy that makes us what we are, we get to use it how we want, at some point that energy leaves, what its called and where it goes, who knows.

True, it’s called ‘the Force’

Me, I don’t know one way or the other, which must make me an Agnostic, but when in trouble I can’t help myself pray God Help me, sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn’t. I bet everyone here if we were in a plane together and it was about to crash, would join me..

It’s chucking it down here again today..

bigblackshed – Member
The military should be in military courts. What happens under service should be treated as such. No justification for the marines actions and they should be dealt with rightly and accordingly. Doing that in public has brought more bad publicity than the actions themselves.

The military is doing a job that the politicians asked them to do. We voted the politicians in to power. If we don’t like it change the politicians.

My two nephews have just returned from Afgan. They didn’t want to be there, the Afgans didn’t want them there. The whole thing is a farce with the soldiers trying to survive and the Afgans trying to kill them. They have both said if we were the invaded then we would be doing the same to the invaders.

Thoroughly agree, except there appears not to be a set of politician to vote for that don’t use military action as a vanity project.

bencooper – Member
Okay, so they’re “the enemy”. In which case we’re their enemy, right?

So it’d be okay for one of the Afghan insurgents to find an injured British soldier and execute him?

Sorry? Isn’t that what happens in war? Except they won’t be prosecuting their fighters.

I only came here to flog a road bike, but no, think this is disgusting, only the Brits would prosecute one of their own for killing the enemy. The Army is a blunt instrument, don’t use it, if you haven’t got the stomach for what it does, if you prosecute the troops then prosecute the Politiicians that sent us in there to do their bidding, we’ve no place being there in the first place, the whole thing is wrong.