ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by befeater

I got plenty of abuse when i was in uniform, but i was stood in a doorway on the Lower Falls.

I seem to remember that a lot of older blokes having been in the mob during the war and the national service lot still being around in considerable numbers meant that while you didn't get any kudos for being in the mob in them days certainly made for a friendlier atmosphere generally.

There were the younger generation who would want to have a go and take on the "Army" but that was more of a "young bloke wants to prove himself in front of his mates" sort of behaviour.

If you wanted abuse, and more, across the water was the place to go.

Any abuse I had tended to come from red-faced little men with Crowns or Royal Arms on their sleeves, but I tended to find a casual wave of the hand and, "carry on please, Sergeant-Major" did the trick

Thicky non-Grad Regular Officers were also a bit of a bane, but generally quite easy to make disappear in a puff of their own logic.

I've been abused many a time whilst in uniform - walking up and down sennybridge, carrying a fecking heavy Bergan whilst getting snowed/rained on for days on end.

Oh, some civvie ratbag shouting 'abuse'? That's more like amusement than anything!

An entire Anglian battalion was abused by a dozen muslims in Luton about 5 years ago... I saw it on telly and I claim my £5 from Lord Ashcroft .

Twas a fairly regular thing when nipping into the local chippy on the way home from drill night. Normally some ned parked up outside on his 50cc scooter. Ignore and carry on, unless they got in range of a clip round the back of the head.

Whilst a reg down south I can't remember any abuse..but then again we never ventured out on foot in green. Something about someone called Mick or Paddy not liking us to much.

Right, who is currently in uniform in here?

Originally Posted by eodmatt

Right, who is currently in uniform in here?

Not me. Retired after 18 years in the late 2000s.

Its not just in the UK we get abused in uniform though. I remember an old couple ranting and raging at me at a set of traffic lights in Osnabruck and it shocked me when the gentleman threw a track pad in my direction that had alledgedly come off my Warrior 513 only moments before and ended up in his windscreen. Does anyone know if theres a claims line i can get any compo from????