It’s just acceptable is it ?

Oh damn it damn it i missed out the NOT aaaggghhh - just so distressed about the story I forgot to preview

It isn’t acceptable, no. And worrying that senior officers have allowed it.

It isn't acceptable to use any recognisable public figure as a 'target'. This is appalling. But probably 'the lads' though it was a big joke...

It just shows what our society is made up of---------idiots !!

OMG it's a bit unbelievable isn't it. On the same day that someone is being tried for plotting to murder MP Rosie Cooper, British soldiers are using the Leader of the Opposition's picture for target practice! The prospect of right wing extremism gaining power is getting more plausible.

It’s what they do, unpleasant to see though , I have seen it done on army firing ranges for many years

NOT ACCEPTABLE ?

There’s also for me the issue that they thought they were beyond normal acceptable behaviour and army discipline and could behave with impunity. And we give men with such arrogance and ill judgement weapons of destruction. The senior soldier in charge of the firing range must be a piece of work

In view of all the knife crimes that are being carried out and when you see this sort of thing going on you have to question why not enough is being done to prevent murders in this country ? Is it okay to have killing in mind ?

Corbyn has not been supportive of the British Army, during the Falklands he called the army ‘the unemployed ‘ . He wants to reduce the number in the armed forces , they want to keep their jobs

And that's a justification for pretending to kill him is it Annie Really? Perhaps the police should be shooting at pictures of Theresa May then given the damage she's actually done.

I think that is awful!!!

Ah! just read AB's post. Perhaps understandable then?

This is not acceptable anytime, any place, anywhere. Not a good example for our younger generation. It’s just encouraging violence.

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Perhaps the police do trisher

Not acceptable. I don’t think any images of real people should be used. I thought they had generic drawn images if the enemy to use,

And if they do/did it would be damn well wrong ab wrong wrong wrong.

Yes it is wrong , I am not defending them just explaining why they may have chosen Corbyn,

maryeliza where is this "footage"?

Given it’s your hero JC you must forgive me for taking your explanation as your being an apologist . The first word you used was ‘unpleasant’ then you said that you knew that sort of thing went on and finally finally you used the word wrong’. Well done

It’s all over social media - I made a deliberate decision not to share

The footage was also on Sky news this morning.

Do soldiers have to be brutalised to be good at soldiering? I know that the job of soldiers is often to kill people, and I cannot think of how else one can be trained to kill people unless one is brutalised.