Hopefully someone can shed some light on this, because it's been bugging me ( Read more... )

Setting: Contemporary Oxfordshire and Warwickshire
Searched: googled peer armed forces UK, marquess armed forces UK, aristocrat armed forces UK, peer army uk, marquess army uk, aristocrat army UK - which turned up some very strange results, as well as much searching back through the britain(misc)tag, which threw up lots of fascinating information ( Read more... )

Setting: modern-day British army ( Read more... )

I recall being told by my father, many years ago, that there is or was a rank in the British navy which could only be attained by someone of royal blood. I've spent the past half hour googling around, looking for information on this, but to no avail. It's possible I'm mis-remembering what I was told, that I misunderstood it at the time, or that he ( Read more... )

Googled "navy nurse", "typical day of navy nurse" and variations on a theme, read the websites of the UK and US Navies concerning nurses ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm new to this community.  I love it!  But I do have a few questions that I couldn't find answers to while going through the tags ( Read more... )

Hello friends, dear all.
Tried googling and wiki-ing but not much luck. Am trying to find out if a non-British national(specifically an Irish person) can join the SAS plausibly. If so, how?

Thanks so much for the help!

Hi! Before asking my questions, I'd like to thank anyone who answered my previous one (regarding Japanese stories on how children are born): I kinda didn't expect all those answers and I didn't thank whom I had to. Sorry. Thank you very much, you've been precious ( Read more... )

Ugh, will I never tire of spamming this community with my odd questions? :P ( Read more... )