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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400088" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What a big joke</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a big joke<br>the new defence force has become, <br>where three thousand soldiers<br>strike and run riot<br>and it’s people <br>who chooses to be soldiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Jan Smuts ruled<br>they would have been dead<br>as he let them <br>load a gun<br>for Jopie Fourie<br>and to me it’s nothing less<br>than revolt<br>for which people in the past<br>could pay the ultimate penalty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I almost laughed myself apart<br>when medical troops<br>where brought to justice<br>for whoring<br>and I wondered<br>what was now happening<br>at the once great 1 Mil? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What kind of army has no discipline<br>and in what defence force<br>troops and junior officers<br>tell generals<br>how to do their thing<br>and the President<br>is challenged<br>to take instructions? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my time you where bound by law<br>to go without any choice<br>to the defence force<br>and if you did not go there, <br>the military police<br>quickly came to fetch you<br>at home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my defence force<br>nonsense was taken out of you<br>from the start<br>and the authority of higher ranks was supreme<br>and we exercised with a pole and tyre<br>and received <br>the best training there.<br>.<br>For two years we<br>had to do national service<br>against a pauper’s pay<br>and it felt at a time<br>as if the camps<br>would never end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a Soldier pointed his finger<br>at a lieutenant<br>and received thirty days<br>in the detention barracks <br>for it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a defence force<br>that showed its fist<br>to Swapo, Fapla, <br>the Cubans and Russians<br>and the best soldiers<br>knew their duty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against what foe<br>will this new army be able to stand<br>if there’s no discipline<br>and like in a asylum people run amok<br>and I wonder <br>what omen<br>is hitting the new South Africa<br>where patriotism<br>lies at the backdoor<br>and every soldier thinks<br>that he’s a general<br>and like all things<br>in this once great country, <br>this army is more than pathetic<br>against what it once was. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: 1 Mil=> One milatary hospital.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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the new defence force has become, 
where three thousand soldiers
strike and run riot
and it’s people 
who chooses to be soldiers.

If Jan Smuts ruled
they would have been dead
as he let them 
load a gun
for Jopie Fourie
and to me..."></div>
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