Just searched the Font of all knowledge "EBAY" and found this:

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So for all you doubters out there it must be true they are special....... To see how special look at:

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Was in Belize a few years ago when the rock apes came out on exercise, all tooled up with every piece of guchi kit you can imagine. Several blokes wouldnt even go into the jungle as they were scared, some more came out after a week (1 because he was scared of the ants), and they binned the final exercise as a lot of them came down with mild conjunctavitis. They then just hung around camp for several weeks like a bad smell dressed like they were still in the jungle, walting it up big time.

Originally Posted by Invicta

No wonder they picked up the nickname "Short Range Desert Group" which they just LOVED..........

I thought it was "Short Range Dessert Group"
Petits Filous, anyone? :D

Last time I saw those bunch of muppets I was at Sainsburys at Brookwood, they were walting it around wearing sleeveless t-shirts all showing off their RAF Regiment tattoos, what feckin c0cks!! I wouldn't trust them to sit the right way round on a toilet!!!

OK, so now we'ev taken the measurements and put our rulers away, lets have a grown up discussion(in the Naffi? What am I thinking?).
A neutral observer(Royal Marine)I discussed this with said he rated the Rockapes as a good, solid infantry unit. He pointed out that any unit classed as good as a British Army infantry regiment was probably superior to the majority of the worlds so-called elite and special forces units.
I am inclined to believe this guy, as he was very fair-minded; to him, all non-Marines were equally worthless.

Originally Posted by Werewolf

OK, so now we'ev taken the measurements and put our rulers away, lets have a grown up discussion(in the Naffi? What am I thinking?).
A neutral observer(Royal Marine)I discussed this with said he rated the Rockapes as a good, solid infantry unit. He pointed out that any unit classed as good as a British Army infantry regiment was probably superior to the majority of the worlds so-called elite and special forces units.
I am inclined to believe this guy, as he was very fair-minded; to him, all non-Marines were equally worthless.

OK this is might be true against other countries etc however within the British Forces I think that the Rock Apes don't come close in standards to an average line infantry regiment.

Originally Posted by Petardier

Tale from the past, 1982, rockape Rapier sqn had finally arrived and was deploying around Stanley airfd. Sqn admin offr fronts up to BC of Rapier bty that had been on the ground throughout and asked for some gunners to dig weapon pits for the sqn. No prizes for guessing the gist of the answer.

What a load of absolute sh*te. The RA batteries in the Falklands were that busy digging in that they missed half of the engagements they could have made. The ones that they were in on they couldn't depress enough because some bright kn*b sited them too high up the hills/mountains. Obviously a brown job who didn't know that aircraft could fly along valleys at low level.

When we took over the army positions they were in sh*t order. I thought I'd taken over from a family of crusties.

Originally Posted by ViroBono

Originally Posted by wooger

Just got off a civi 747 charter from Canada to UK. 15 nice first class seats, and guess what. RAF Regt Cpls, LCpls and Propellors sitting in them. Meanwhile RSM and others put in the cheap seats. The only reason it passed was everyone was so knackered after the movments F@~k about that no one noticed until everyone was seated!

L/Cpl is not an RAF rank, so either your tale is made up, your observational skills are sh!te or you didn't see what you thought you saw.

The people you saw may have been aeromed staff and patients; they are invariably allocated seats at the front of the a/c. It often generates whining from some other passengers.

The reality is that RSM on an aircraft = unimportant self-loading cargo. :D :D

Well one stripe means in general army talk LCpl, and as my indication of a Propellor should indicate that I am really not up to speed on the RAF names for ranks. It could be LBdr or what ever else a particular unit uses - the HCR for example use a system that is incomprehensible to most.

I would like to see anyone call an RSM unimportant to his face. As for patients, well they walked on and off the plane with the rest of us.

Can confirm the big-3 buzz:
RM mate of mine was on course at leconsfield when a RAF-Reg' spleen approached him and suggested 'us lot should stick together', (suggesting the group of marines he was with at the bar), Matey then says 'what do you mean?', to which mong boy replies 'you know, the big 3! Paras, Marines.....Raf reg'. There then followed a stunned silence complete with dustballs etc.
Mate says quietly 'we do stick together' and then turns his back on said tw@t.

Originally Posted by Rockape288

Originally Posted by Petardier

Tale from the past, 1982, rockape Rapier sqn had finally arrived and was deploying around Stanley airfd. Sqn admin offr fronts up to BC of Rapier bty that had been on the ground throughout and asked for some gunners to dig weapon pits for the sqn. No prizes for guessing the gist of the answer.

What a load of absolute sh*te. The RA batteries in the Falklands were that busy digging in that they missed half of the engagements they could have made. The ones that they were in on they couldn't depress enough because some bright kn*b sited them too high up the hills/mountains. Obviously a brown job who didn't know that aircraft could fly along valleys at low level.

When we took over the army positions they were in sh*t order. I thought I'd taken over from a family of crusties.

Why were you taking over from them?
As Nato's premier air defence experts should you not have been there in the first place ?
That way nobody would have missed any engagements because you would have worked out the jets could fly low
Was the NAFFI built then? :D :D