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Discuss Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth? in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner Originally Posted by StumpyHussar For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car. Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion ...
  1. 28-05-2008, 15:37 #11
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Extra pedantry: SOviet Exchange Mission
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    I've never even heard the 'I know a bloke who saw..' kind of stories.
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Xerxes_Blue_Cat
    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Extra pedantry: SOviet Exchange Mission
    ...and wrong.
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Yeah, that's what he said: SOXMIS=Soviets=Ruskies. Why would Herford have wanted sightings of BRIXMIS cars reporting to them?
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by wedge35
    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Yeah, that's what he said: SOXMIS=Soviets=Ruskies. Why would Herford have wanted sightings of BRIXMIS cars reporting to them?
    When you spotted them it was a number in Herford you had to call to report it. This was to try to keep a track of where they went. We all were issued these and carried in the wallet.
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bonzo_Dog
    Quote Originally Posted by Xerxes_Blue_Cat
    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Extra pedantry: SOviet Exchange Mission
    ...and wrong.
    Is it? Expand...
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Xerxes_Blue_Cat
    Quote Originally Posted by Bonzo_Dog
    Quote Originally Posted by Xerxes_Blue_Cat
    Quote Originally Posted by Cholmondley-Warner
    Quote Originally Posted by StumpyHussar
    For the curious SOXMIS= Marked Russian intelligence gathering car.
    Sorry, don't like being a fcking pedant, but wasn't SOXMIS the collective noun for members of the SOvietMISsion in Germany? I'm sure ours was BRIXMIS etc
    Extra pedantry: SOviet Exchange Mission
    ...and wrong.
    Is it? Expand...
    It is SOVIET MILITARY LIAISON MISSION

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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Yep I remember you carried your SOXMIS card and GREEN ROA card when on duty. If you sighted one in a area where they shouldnt be you had to detain them by boxing them in on autobahns etc, personally never saw one though
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Well I stand corrected just saw card DO NOT DETAIN but Im sure on Int briefings if we had one in our convoy we had to detain, im confused and it was a long time ago.
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    Re: Herford/Hereford - IRA Murders - Urban Myth?

    Quote Originally Posted by Filbert Fox
    I stand corrected, but did anyone ever see a SOXMIS car doing anything reportable, I never did and Ive never met anyone who did.
    I suppose you've never been to Berlin then? Like a rash they were all uber the platz and were a pain in the arrse. One used to stop out side of Smuts Barracks and twice in two years phoned the guard room to tell them the Union flag was upside down.

    That aside we laid a trap for one that kept going onto the Hohne range military road which they were banned from. It kept stopping and taking photos of passing traffic etc. We staged an OP watching the motorway on the days it came and then we had our Recce troop waiting round the corner which was supposed to come round and box the car in.

    Weeks it went on and then one day they appeared, we sprung the Recce troop trap and the beggars reversed up the bank and got away.

    All designed to embarress them but it was us with egg on our faces. Oh the excitement
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