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Discuss 20 years ago at the Just TA forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Originally Posted by FFBox
Being 24!
Being 22!...
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11-02-2008, 21:06 #181Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Being 22!
Originally Posted by FFBox
No, its not that big and I have no idea how it works.
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11-02-2008, 21:14 #182Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Whilst talking about Bruin
"Shots Out Shots out"Paid off by August Hurrah
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11-02-2008, 21:36 #183Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Fire mission Battery
I can see it now, in a decade ARRSE will be full of young thrusters who will be complaining about all the old farts who go on about HERRICK, lurk in the office, "enable" stuff and how it's got fuck all to do with what's going on now.
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11-02-2008, 21:48 #184Senior Member
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I can remember in '85 at the 2Div Arty Conc at Otterburn, the BC next to me had someone tap him on the shoulder and say 'FM All available on that tgt'. He gave the order and back came the response Fire Mission Division!
Three bty FH70 and six bty Lt Gun. Oh Deep Joy.happiness is a hot tube
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12-02-2008, 00:18 #185Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Deepio
Bravo Bravo sets himself a depressingly low standard which he consistently fails to achieve.
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12-02-2008, 10:18 #186Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Then this thread is porn Originally Posted by msr
Effects Of Artillery Fire (MOD Movie 1979)
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10-06-2008, 22:30 #187Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Sorry, had another flashback:
Burning the loose threads around the button holes with a cigarette lighter.
MSRI can see it now, in a decade ARRSE will be full of young thrusters who will be complaining about all the old farts who go on about HERRICK, lurk in the office, "enable" stuff and how it's got fuck all to do with what's going on now.
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10-06-2008, 23:28 #188Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
I remember buying a green hooded NI jacket from Silvermans as it was ally kit at the time, zips in boots, I gloves, Iraq wheres that?
Closing the bar at the TAC then deploying out on EX, Tp SOP kit was wax jacket belt webbing!
Ah the good ole days, kids these days do'nt know how lucky they are
StiltsAll ways look on the bright side of life!!!
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cros...s" since the blitz in 1940
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11-06-2008, 20:20 #189Senior Member
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Re: 20 years ago
Being 20 years old and reading Team Yankee on honeymoon (flashback courtesy of the cold war TA thread).
and seeing my recruit instructor fall into an abandoned fire trench on Longmoor whilst leading us on a night recce patrol ! Can you even dig them these days let alone just leave them as a H&S hazard.
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11-06-2008, 21:40 #190
Re: 20 years ago
OCs interview for missing a Tuesday drill night (the year I did 119 days rather than my usual 70-80).
OCs interview for being consistently the last man out of the bar.........
Silvermans - a '44 pattern nylon largepack - gucci as owt!
Rubber NBC repair patches.
New fangled NBC Casualty bags.
COLPRO
Cyprus with 'the obsolete weapon', LCLs that dropped you into 5' deep water so that your webbing and rations could absorb all that lovely salt water to keep you cool on your march to Paramali.
Being thrown out of the billet by the RSM during COs inspection as I was about to puke my guts all over the CO.
Warsaw pact study weekends
Cardboard in the pockets of those god-awful orange 85 pattern combats.
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