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06-10-2008, 11:16 #11Senior Member
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Re: Was some older issue gear better than the new?
Does the Army still use the No:1 burner for field cooking. It was a stunning bit of kit. It blew up so many people and it could cook a mean stew.
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06-10-2008, 11:18 #12Senior Member
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That bloody water heater thing that was stuck in a bucket of water. Every morning you'd hear the bang for a wake up call and know another sloppo had just lost his eyebrows! :D
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06-10-2008, 11:20 #13Senior Member
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OG's!
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06-10-2008, 11:24 #14Senior Member
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Re: Was some older issue gear better than the new?
Originally Posted by smudge67
Before some old crusty mentions the SLR over the SA80........the SA80 is a better weapon
SLR, SLR. What was wrong with the old .303 Lee Enfield? :D
Thought that I had better make it look as though I was kidding in case
someone took umbrage.
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06-10-2008, 11:26 #15Senior Member
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Ah, Og's. In Hong Kong and Malaya our dhobi wallahs took them and brought them back starched within an inch of their life. The Og's that is.
Aden, desert kit. Shorts(long) boots and stockings, and not the sexy type. Or, boots with puttees and socks, thick and wooly rolled over them.
Compo; tinned bacon and eggs. Salty as sea water but tasty. And large tins of salmon.I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons
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06-10-2008, 11:28 #16Senior Member
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see your babies heads & bacon grill and raise you Originally Posted by Bravo_Bravo
Get orf moi Land!
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06-10-2008, 11:29 #17Senior Member
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Re: Was some older issue gear better than the new?
Aaah the puffing billy! Good way to clear a location of Gurkha's! Originally Posted by buggrit
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06-10-2008, 11:32 #18Moderator
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Re: Was some older issue gear better than the new?
Condensed milk in tubes in the 24 Rat Pack.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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06-10-2008, 11:34 #19Senior Member
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The good old "puffing Billy". We were still using one in Kosovo. Many a black face, and singed eyebrow with that thing! Originally Posted by buggrit
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06-10-2008, 11:34 #20Senior Member
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Jungle shirts and trousers.
Old style PARA smocks.
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