Post by son-of-tiny on Feb 20, 2009 19:59:37 GMT
This may apply too some of you
When you visit the National Army Museum, and your kit is in a glass case your No. 2 Dress shirt had a detachable collar.When bayonet fencing was an integral part of a PT lesson.
(nutstrangler)
Sadly, I just need to look in the mirror or When you are talking about ARVs - and the one in your head is the Centurion. When you got issued 'new Army swimming trunks!
( alfredo )
You remember Long John Silver when he had an egg on his shoulder and your 'sleeping system' was a couple of blankets, half a dozen blanket pins and a gas cape.( Whizzer)
When your regiment or unit have been amalgamated or renamed twice and you and your OC are the only serving members of the original regiment/unit.
when the new QM does his handover/takeover and signs for you or When AFV recognition consisted of being able to tell the difference between a T54/55 and a T-62. still have a SOXMIS card.
( soprano 54 )
Compo Chicken Curry and RAOC Bread with "Friday" on the wrapper - no indication of which Friday though. When 'Puttees' replaced 'Gaitors' Sleeping with one eye open to avoid getting 'bed ended'( tankey )
Compo came in tins (Tiffin and boiled sweets anyone??) (dingbat
When all army vehicles were painted gloss green.The Fire Barrow!...........and the fire piquet. Charging round with a handcart and a hose, as the fully kitted out German Feuerwehr looked on in curiosity and mild amusement.When your first vehicle was a Commer Repair Vehicle( vmecha )
When you remember TV adverts to 'Join The Professionals' which showed squaddies miming laying a chickens' egg to a bemused German farm frau. When the SMG fired bulleted blank. When the sqn signaller was known as the 'wireless operator'
10 DM to the Pound, flared jeans and hoopy tank tops off duty, deciding whether or not to go for VHS or Betamax format in the SKC shop and a tax free Datsun.9 Finding out that the new nig is from plymouth, and wondering whether you shaggged his Mum
( A3B )
active edge call out's at 4 in the morning, and not answering the door once you were a pad. The Red Shield wagons that followed you everywhere, until the NAAFI got them banned from camp. Who was the old German guy who drove the Red Shiled wagon on Soltau? He knew exactly where you would be, even though your wagons were cammed up.( toptosser )
Evaporated milk. It was facking awful. Coffee or tea (Guardroom brews always tasted the same) in a brown stained 57 pattern mug which had been in the guardroom since '1944.The loose tea and sugar or 'Acquiring' one of those AFV crew parkas (snozie01)
Standing in line waiting for your dosh - "pay and paybook correct sir!" salute, about turn and fcuk off smartly out the door!! You used a floor bumper Not only on the floors, but on the guardroom ceiling with one in each hand.....(stallyman )
with your sir stanley mathews blue pt shorts and rolled down green socks onto thin trusty plimsoles Cleaning a spider barracks window with Windolene pink cream First three 238, initially wore BD and denims with blancoed webbing.
Issued brass/nickel cap badge with Kings Crown on the top.
On Stag with only a pick helve. Only got stickman once!
Most AFs completed by hand
Bedford QLs and RLs, Champs, Commers and Fordsons, Matadors and Churchill AVREs up the road in BAOR.
Going home on leave on steam trains
( geordieyoung)
When yer R.S.M on his parade doesnt shout at yer get yer hair cut....because yer dont have any hair anymore... I can remember when Minis and Morris Travellers were used as staff cars.( greentanky )
just a bit of fun lads
When you visit the National Army Museum, and your kit is in a glass case your No. 2 Dress shirt had a detachable collar.When bayonet fencing was an integral part of a PT lesson.
(nutstrangler)
Sadly, I just need to look in the mirror or When you are talking about ARVs - and the one in your head is the Centurion. When you got issued 'new Army swimming trunks!
( alfredo )
You remember Long John Silver when he had an egg on his shoulder and your 'sleeping system' was a couple of blankets, half a dozen blanket pins and a gas cape.( Whizzer)
When your regiment or unit have been amalgamated or renamed twice and you and your OC are the only serving members of the original regiment/unit.
when the new QM does his handover/takeover and signs for you or When AFV recognition consisted of being able to tell the difference between a T54/55 and a T-62. still have a SOXMIS card.
( soprano 54 )
Compo Chicken Curry and RAOC Bread with "Friday" on the wrapper - no indication of which Friday though. When 'Puttees' replaced 'Gaitors' Sleeping with one eye open to avoid getting 'bed ended'( tankey )
Compo came in tins (Tiffin and boiled sweets anyone??) (dingbat
When all army vehicles were painted gloss green.The Fire Barrow!...........and the fire piquet. Charging round with a handcart and a hose, as the fully kitted out German Feuerwehr looked on in curiosity and mild amusement.When your first vehicle was a Commer Repair Vehicle( vmecha )
When you remember TV adverts to 'Join The Professionals' which showed squaddies miming laying a chickens' egg to a bemused German farm frau. When the SMG fired bulleted blank. When the sqn signaller was known as the 'wireless operator'
10 DM to the Pound, flared jeans and hoopy tank tops off duty, deciding whether or not to go for VHS or Betamax format in the SKC shop and a tax free Datsun.9 Finding out that the new nig is from plymouth, and wondering whether you shaggged his Mum
( A3B )
active edge call out's at 4 in the morning, and not answering the door once you were a pad. The Red Shield wagons that followed you everywhere, until the NAAFI got them banned from camp. Who was the old German guy who drove the Red Shiled wagon on Soltau? He knew exactly where you would be, even though your wagons were cammed up.( toptosser )
Evaporated milk. It was facking awful. Coffee or tea (Guardroom brews always tasted the same) in a brown stained 57 pattern mug which had been in the guardroom since '1944.The loose tea and sugar or 'Acquiring' one of those AFV crew parkas (snozie01)
Standing in line waiting for your dosh - "pay and paybook correct sir!" salute, about turn and fcuk off smartly out the door!! You used a floor bumper Not only on the floors, but on the guardroom ceiling with one in each hand.....(stallyman )
with your sir stanley mathews blue pt shorts and rolled down green socks onto thin trusty plimsoles Cleaning a spider barracks window with Windolene pink cream First three 238, initially wore BD and denims with blancoed webbing.
Issued brass/nickel cap badge with Kings Crown on the top.
On Stag with only a pick helve. Only got stickman once!
Most AFs completed by hand
Bedford QLs and RLs, Champs, Commers and Fordsons, Matadors and Churchill AVREs up the road in BAOR.
Going home on leave on steam trains
( geordieyoung)
When yer R.S.M on his parade doesnt shout at yer get yer hair cut....because yer dont have any hair anymore... I can remember when Minis and Morris Travellers were used as staff cars.( greentanky )
just a bit of fun lads
