He is aged 64 she is 44. Good skills that bloke

Germany 1968?

Ah, that was the time, that was!

Wee Jacky D loses a track (fractured track pin) and 12B ends up in Blomberg post office with glass and plaster raining down... 432 comes to a halt mere inches from the counter...

Wee Jacky climbs out of the wreckage, with an FMT3 in hand, leans over the counter and says to the trembling counter-clerk, "Ein stamp, bitte?" :D

To add further to BAOR AFV misery, my Tp was up in Woffenbuttel(sp?) as enemy for the Boeselager Cup. We did the deed and drove down to the rail sidings to load onto flat beds. Anyway the guy marshalling c/s 12 got it wrong and the waggon toppled over and wedged itself against an adjacent wall at 45°. All the locals and the press came out as they'd not seen MBT's for years and the sight was hilarious. They had to hire in a HUGE crane to lift the wagon off and upright the flatbed.

....Another lot to find it hilarious were the Welsh Guards also waiting to load on the flatbeds until . . . One of their 432's had broken down and was dragged in. When they uncoupled it precariously at the top of a small hill from the 434, the driver managed to reverse and tap the wagon off the brow, down the hill and into the side of one of the gloating Germans cars.

Oh how we all laughed. It made the local rag the next day. Yep! we were still there that long.

When i was with The Cav, if you did that you got 500 browny points!!
Funking L plate drivers!! ------ Still, one to tell his grand children, that is if the R.S.M DOES NOT NAIL HIS BALLS TO THE FLOOR!! :P

Note that the driver is still in his seat......... Oh the BAOR days. I remember going head to head with a Stalwart in my 432 c/w Barmine Layer. Entering Mine dump Section Comd tells me to park up behind CV on the left, me then cross lane and position vehicle as requested. Procede to close eyes as we had been planting paper mines for many an hour. MT Cpl 'Billy' comes out of said mine dump full of paper mines...fully tac - Bang staight into the front of my wagon..... I headbutted the from side of then hatch, just below the helmet line, fired back so my neck hit the opposite side (again below helmet line and ended up like a pile of empties between the tillers. The snout of the Stalwart nearly sheared off the Antenna pot to my right - lucky me. 9 days in the MRS and I still have a crease in my forehead 19 years later.

What a thoroughly nice lady.

Good to see people can still laugh, at what is a pretty trivial incident.

Not learner driving realted as such, but might as well be.

Munster circa late 1980's, mortar wagon (432) mortar vehicle sheds, opposite the fairly newish servicing bay, driver has the task of changing track pads, on said wagon...

So to save time, removes both tracks, veh, as anyone who knows 4-3's knows, brakes using its tracks/at least one of them anyway.

Vehicle doesnt stop when the nig driver pulls the tillers, and big wonder as to why, right up to the point when the said veh hits the newish servicing bay doors/wall.

Dont know the cost, but typical of the day as to armoured inf fook ups.

I could go on, and will post a pic of a certain ARRSER, who will remain namless for now, who rolled a brand spanking new warrior on the poole bypass ;) sorry chris, you know its coming.

Originally Posted by skintboymike

"A Problem???? A FUCKING PROBLEM?????!!!!!!.....NNNNNGGGGG....*bites knuckle*........ no sir, there's no problem."

'I was trying to tell him to do a neutral turn,then I sneezed.'

I want to live in Norfolk. This story (ooh arrr - fence smashed by tank) makes it onto the nightly news programme. Better than Mancs or Scousers stabbing each other every night.

Shame I don't have enough fingers etc....

When i take my hands away it will all have been a dream !!!!!