I have a character who served in the British Armed forces in the 1970s who is looking, for the first time, at an armed forces issue pistol from the past five years - i.e., an unspecified moment between about 2010 and today (time travel is involved). I'm assuming it is a Browning Hi Power pistol - it could be a Glock 17 but a Browning seems more ( Read more... )

Setting: Present day (2010-2012), Afghanistan and Britain ( Read more... )

I'm seeking some help on a few issues relating to the British military, and specifically the Military Police ( Read more... )

Firstly, apologies for the dreadful pun. It's my first post, please don't hate me ( Read more... )

I thought I knew my militaria, but I keep running into problems over the nitty-gritty aspects. I have a major receiving orders to select a number of soldiers for a mission, and I realised I don't know how the order would be given. Written orders in an envelope, over the phone, or in person at a briefing? Is this sort of order even realistic ( Read more... )

I'm writing a cyberpunk-thriller that's set mostly in the present time (a few years in the future, but not much), so society is basically the same as we know it. A few of the main characters are soldiers who take part in a scientific experiment which is very top secret, so they're basically cut off from everybody else ( Read more... )

I'm writing a cyberpunk-thriller that's set mostly in the present time (a few years in the future, but not much), so society is basically the same as we know it ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )

This isn't for this website's journal, so if you hope to see anything posted about this here, I'm sorry to say you'll be waiting a long time. However I don't have anything like this over at my "clean journal" website.

I don't know how to research some of this besides asking people who were in the military. Most of the books or internet reference ( Read more... )

I have a character who is Not A Very Nice Man, and has been dishonourably discharged from the British Army under suspicion of committing murder (present day setting ( Read more... )