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And the winner is ...

"I told ya it would be good for pull'n chicks!"

Mr James Lambert,
SF ADRHIB Project Office

Army staff also liked ...

"If the judges don't award these guys at least a 9.9, shoot them."
Capt A.T.J. Smith,
JMCO Perth

"There're all very well back there now, but how are they going to go during the air drop?"
Capt Ross McFarlane,
SF Air Drop
RHIB Project

"Now keep a sharp lookout fellas, those scene-stealing dolphins are around here somewhere!"
Cpl Bill Fisher,
DFSS

World weird web

Army looks at web sites that entertain and inform.

www.hotornot.com You can upload your picture on this web site and people around the world rate whether you are hot or not.

The site also has a meeting service where if you rate someone as hot, you can meet them if they think you're hot.

Hot or Not could entertain for hours as you flick through pics of people striking all sorts of poses.

It's a funny site and interesting to see how many people need to be validated by strangers.

www.tshirthell.com You see people getting around with all sorts of unusual t-shirts these days. If it's particularly offensive or black-humoured you can bet it's from T-shirt Hell.

With such t-shirt wording favourites as "Can you come back in a few beers" and "I should be in the kitchen", be aware this site isn't everybody's cup of tea.

www.rottentomatoes.com If films are your thing and you like the idea of finding out what they're watching in the US before they show here, check out Rotten Tomatoes.

The site is filled with professional reviews rating a movie as rotten or fresh (not unlike Hot or Not). You also get movie synopsis, pics and other movie goss.


www.cnnn.com They're on SBS, they're on Triple J, if you can't get enough of the Chaser Non-stop News Network crew, visit their web site.

The site is filled with the newsbars from the TV series, links to Fungrys, unusual merchandise, and news.

you've visited a web site that might interest our readers, let us know:
simone.heyer@defencenews.gov.au (sec: unclassified, WWW Column)

It's a fact

Marching rates

• Napoleonic Grande Armee 120
• British Army (line infantry and corps) 120
• Chinese People's Liberation Army 108
• Ancient Roman Legion 100
• French Foreign Legion 100
• British Army under Wellington 75 Paces per minute

Loads carried

• Roman legionary, first century 66lbs
• Armoured French Knight at Agincourt, 1415 80lbs
• Union soldier at Gettysbury, 1863 50lbs
• Allied infantryman on D-Day 1944 80lbs
• Russian soldier on advance on Berlin, 1945 40lbs
• Royal Marine in the Falklands, 1982, 120lbs
• US Army soldier on patrol in Afghanistan, 2002 100lbs
  
  
  Extract from the book Essential Militaria, by Nicholas Hobbes, Atlantic books. Weight of personal weapons and equipment