Action Man is back.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-111546 2/Hes-MoD-launches-Action-Man-range-toys-boost -profile-Armed-Forces.html

The range has been designed and marketed by the Character Group toy firm, under a licensing deal which will see a share of the profits returned to the MoD.

Shouldn't a share of the profits, go not into the MoD's coffers, but into the Service Men's & Service Women's charities?

[jake-the-peg]

Why not maybe they could pay their bail money then

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7589953.stm

1 in 11 prisoners are ex-servicemen

[Gromit]

It is amazing that with two wars to fight, the MoD finds time to branch out into the toy business.

As our serving soldiers seem to be poorly kitted out on the battlefield, I would prefer acting soldiers saw the benefit any profits from these toys, rather than ex-servicemen.

[ghetto poet]

maybe a good accessory would be a little school or hospital with brown faces in the windows that action man could bomb like in real life.

[Gourmander]

Will they be doing a Harry one, with his "P a k i" mate?

[sarah_louise]

I saw on TV a cricket match on TV Pakistan v India.
On a Bed sheet the supporters had written "**** Power" as I suppose Pakistani Power would not fit easily.
I am deeply offended...........

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

I would expect just such an answer from you, you just can't help being totally obnoxious. Taking into account your attitude one could be excused from assuming that you yourself has at sometime been somewhat lawless.

These (mainly) youngsters who have joined the armed forces have been highly trained into fighting and killing. Then within weeks of their eighteenth birthday, they have been flown out into the hell holes of Iraq and Afghanistan, where their training has quickly been put into practice.

After many tours of combat, they are then sent back into society, with hardly any back-up in which to learn how to fit back into more peaceful surroundings. Some manage it with no bother, and are a credit to society, others unfortunately are not so lucky.

Seeing you are interested in the prison population numbers, perhaps you would care to study these figures, and perhaps make a similar comment.

Race and prison
Of all those sentenced to custody in the second quarter of 2005, one in five was from a minority ethnic group. 35 per cent of minority ethnic prisoners are foreign nationals. At 58 per cent, black prisoners account for the largest number of minority ethnic prisoners and their numbers are rising - whereas the prison population grew by just over 12 per cent between 1999 and 2002, the number of black prisoners increased by 51 per cent.

[jake-the-peg]

Isn't it time you woke up to the fact that your idealised perception of servicemen is outdated?

Do you think those who fought in World War II had any harder time readjusting?

Do you think they had any more help?

Or do you think they were just as bad and didn't get caught?

Stop making excuses for criminal behaviour

[anotheoldgit]

Or do you think they were just as bad and didn't get caught?

What a ridiculous statement to make, how would one know?

Ok if you want to go back into the history books, please post the figures for the number of WW2 veterans who have served a prison sentence.

Why just pick on ex- servicemen, what lawful occupation is likely to have produced the highest number of jail birds?

Criminals are from all walks of life not just ex-servicemen.

Interesting to note you made no comment on my last paragraph, I wonder why?