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**Closet_Jibber** · 14-07-2009, 21:05

Originally Posted by PrinceAlbert

Originally Posted by Closet_Jibber

Snatch with air conditioning running.

You mean the top cover, and the back doors open?

No, we were posh when I returned to theatre. Real Aircon. It didn't really work unless you were a driver or mounted to the "Radio" brackets but it was loud enough to keep a corpse awake.

**auscam** · 14-07-2009, 21:23

Originally Posted by WilieCayote

Military : pitch black.. doss bag getting zipped up 'ZZZzzzziipp' then curling up into a ball with a daft grin on my face!!

as someone has said.. Lynx helicopter screaming towards you 'two minutes to pick up' nice one..

and 'endex' is a good one

Civvie: Mark 2 Escort BDA engine on full throttle...

Stupid: coughing just as a ring pull on another 'tinnie' is opened..
started in Canada and went on for years in our coy..

I defy anyone not to look up at a spitfire with the merlin engine

Quite.

Also, the muted, yet musical 'glug-glug-glug-glug' as the first glass is poured from a bottle of really good red.

SLR again- the BARK-ching-clang as the weapon fires, ejects and chambers rounds

**jaybee2786** · 14-07-2009, 21:26

The smell of a Paraffin Budgie (sea king)

The noise of a 1 ton landrover

Fa nny farts

No duff no duff no duff this is not a drill coming over the air

Green goddess at max revs 30mph going up hill

Fat albert landing max reverse thrust known there may be blueys in the back for you

**auscam** · 14-07-2009, 21:39

Originally Posted by eodmatt

The sound of a pipe band firing up. Pipe music: Music to kill people by.

And to march to. If you simply have to drill, a brass band just isn't the same.

**Teech** · 14-07-2009, 21:56

The whine and rumble of a Chally 2 as I lay on my camp cot, off to dissuade the locals from badness.

The opening bars of 'British Grenadiers' counting furiously under my breath '...13, 14, onetwo!' followed inevitably by the AcSM pacesticking some unfortunate in the chest as they messed up yet again.

The Gael played on the bagpipes (from Last of the Mohicans)

The soft pop of a bottle of wine being opened, followed by the rich glug as you fill her glass, then yours.

**Turk** · 14-07-2009, 22:13

the glutteral roar of a jet engine on take off between when max power is applied and the plane starts moving forward. I

**devexwarrior** · 15-07-2009, 05:59

The sound of the movements NCO rustling papers and saying "Yup, here they are" as he produces your flight details home

**chinooksdad** · 15-07-2009, 06:05

PrinceAlbert!

Have not been WAAHHHHED for years. Sir! I dof my cap to you, at leaast I would if I was weaaring one. Totally civillianised now and used to telling the tossers what the things are called

One dozy bint I worked with even called one a WOP-WOP!!

**Poacher** · 15-07-2009, 06:22

The smell of early morning dew mixed with avtur as the Sqn ran round the pan for PT. Nothing smells quite as sweet.

**GoodIdeaAtTheTime** · 15-07-2009, 08:39

Originally Posted by Poacher

Re: Most evocative sounds

The smell of early morning dew mixed with avtur as the Sqn ran round the pan for PT. Nothing smells quite as sweet.

Clearly a man who could lead a procurement team.

...back on the subject

Opening the para doors to put the steps out.
Vulcan on afterburners going overhead at low level
Bedford tailgates dropping at the end of a road move.