ARmy Rumour SErvice

**tonywightman** · 25-11-2011, 16:05

my polish mate was in the 2rep parachute regiment in corsica very tough indeed and very strict and sometimes brutal.

**donmac** · 25-11-2011, 16:14

Originally Posted by Mark The Convict

Just indulging an idle fantasy about Tropper getting his head cleft to the sternum by some fur-clad resident of Essex; http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...XP1t9nMMaf1tXg

Usual Wiki mis-info. Celts come down and sort out a shitload of wops and the English get all the credit.

**Fat_Cav** · 25-11-2011, 16:19

Originally Posted by Tankiebootneckdad

Have we got our own Foregn Legion?

Yes, the RLC

**Mark The Convict** · 25-11-2011, 21:11

Originally Posted by donmac

Usual Wiki mis-info. Celts come down and sort out a shitload of wops and the English get all the credit.

Never mind, it's the idle fantasy that counts.

**HHH** · 25-11-2011, 22:36

Originally Posted by tonywightman

my polish mate was in the 2rep parachute regiment in corsica very tough indeed and very strict and sometimes brutal.

Opinions on the RAF Regiment?

Are you going to mention all the Nations as your mates ?

**tonywightman** · 26-11-2011, 09:24

Originally Posted by HHH

Opinions on the RAF Regiment?

Are you going to mention all the Nations as your mates ?

maybe i will maybe i wont.

**donmac** · 26-11-2011, 10:31

Originally Posted by Mark The Convict

I'd forgotten about them.

yeah right! probably the the first thing to catch your eye.

**Manley** · 27-11-2011, 13:18

French Legion, Spanish Legion, Legion of Mary, Nights of Saint Columba, British Legion, t.wo speak foreign, one prays and t'other sells beer, it,s a no brainer

**Hermes_R12** · 27-11-2011, 13:22

All the blokes I met smelt strongly of garlic

**baboon6** · 29-11-2011, 22:17

Originally Posted by Alec_Lomas

A polite correction 'mon colonel' Tony H-C didn't undertake that role but was CO of an NI based unit. Top man. I didn't see him this year at the Cenotaph parade, but then my eyes aren't what they were. I managed to acquire an 18 month tour on the staff at Pau via 6 weeks at St. Cyr. The Uk liasion officer in those times was Alec H a Para Regt blue water sailor type, looking forward to his retirement in the Med....... err sailing of course.

As regarding his British Army service was originally commissioned into the 7th Gurkha Rifles but later transferred to the RA:

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issu.../4987/page.pdf

ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY
REGULAR ARMY
2nd Lt. Anthony Hunter CHOAT (472271) from
Short Serv. Commn., 7 G.R., to be 2nd Lt., 20th
Feb. 1964, with seniority 3rd Nov. 1962.

Later commander of the Sultan's Special Force in Oman, head of security for the Aga Khan and had a senior job with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq:

Anthony Hunter-Choat - Powerbase

Certainly a very interesting career!