Diggers in new race-hate row Australian Defence Force personnel, paramedics and a NSW rural firefighter have been caught posting racist and religious slurs on social media pages despite the furore over the racist insults directed at AFL star Adam Goodes. All three organisations have launched investigations after receiving a stream of complaints that their employees and volunteers have been posting the comments on known race-hate and Facebook pages over the past week. All of the people involved clearly identified themselves on social media pages, some posting pictures of ambulances, firetrucks and themselves in uniform, as well as identifying their work position or organisation. The postings from soldiers and sailors are the latest in a string of racist scandals to have hit the Australian Defence Force over the past decade, including inflammatory remarks by serving personnel in Afghanistan, soldiers dressing like the Ku Klux Klan and racist and sexist Facebook groups. One message on a hate page, understood to be from a serving soldier, said: "My mates wife ripped the scarf of a muzzos head, after she run up the arse of their Porsche, it was so she could see where she was going next time." Another serving officer, who had been the subject of a complaint to Defence in the past two weeks, was again posting comments on Friday about Muslims, saying, "Kill em all." The ambulance officer contributed to a group post about a Muslim person the group wanted to "kill or deport." One of the hate messages put up just a few days ago by the rural firefighter said: "We as Australians have a 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT' to freedom of speech. But you go ahead and voice your opinion and the government say it is wrong. SO I sayd [sic] F--- the government Send all the f---ing Muslims back to their own country and then nuke the place. No more problems with the c---s. The posting came during a week of controversy triggered by a young teenage girl who called AFL star Adam Goodes an "ape" and fuelled by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire. A Defence spokeswoman confirmed the Office of the Inspector-General of Defence was investigating the fresh allegations of inappropriate comments made by Defence members on social media sites. If any investigation determines that inappropriate behaviour has occurred, the matter will be referred to the relevant service for action. In 2011 Facebook and YouTube postings by a small number of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan sparked controversy. Videos showed soldiers referring to Afghans as "sand coons," "dune coons," "niggers," "smelly locals" and a "raghead." Last year the ABC uncovered a Facebook group where serving and ex-military personnel were swapping bawdy comments about women and offensive remarks about Muslims. And in 2004 soldiers at Townsville's Lavarack Barracks dressed in Ku Klux Klan-style hoods and posed behind some Aboriginal and other dark-skinned soldiers. The executive director of the Australian Defence Association, Neil James, said such behaviour would be very disappointing given that the ADF was so strong on its social media policy . "When you are fighting a war in complex human terrain - among people - it is not clever to be giving them things they can use as propaganda against you, it is also not looking after your mates," he said. ADF investigations will also examine comments, such as "Death to Islam," which were posted by a man wearing what appeared to be an Australian army uniform. A complaint by a peace group which monitors websites was sent to the Rural Fire Service, saying one of the postings had been made last week. The group called for the firefighter to be disciplined. A fire service spokeswoman said the service had not been aware of the comments but "now they have been brought to our attention, the service has taken immediate action." She said the service had already contacted the volunteer and he had agreed to remove the post. Disciplinary processes had been started. Ambulance NSW has also launched an investigation after receiving a complaint about an employee who contributed to a racist group post that revealed the address of a person who was disliked by the group and who they wanted to "kill or deport."