ARmy Rumour SErvice

pte lennox.

marching to dinner holding his mug and diggers in his right hand - saluted a passing rupert and ended up in the infirmary having the fork removed from his skull.

on gate duty got carried away and fell over backwards while opening gate for CO, laid in a puddle at port arms.

turned up on parade with a wiggle bit of white tape on his arm, 'what the f is that lennox you orrible bag o shite you!', 'Sir its my stripe sir', 'and where did it come from my lad?', 'well I figured I'd earned it so stitched it on myself'. Amazingly they let him keep it!

nope its true - he was the only candidate for the rmp job so they gave it too him. just remembered the first time I met him was coming off a recce, he had aquired a SUIT from somewhere but didnt have the mounting rail so bungied it to his SLR which was rather funny when he tried to zero it on the ranges.

I could tell you about jonno (attatched to us as the ambulance driver) who wandered about for weeks trying to look important with waxed jacket and flat cap lugging a briefcase containing his important 'papers' which when we finally cracked the locks turned out to be grot mags.

said jonno also sunk a 4 tonner on the driving range when he decided to go through a tank trap instead

mind you while running around on keystone 87 with the TA while still at college I once bought a weeks supply of clausthaler for the platoon from the spar only to discover it was alcohol free. woke up every day to 26 blokes brushing their teeth with it before spitting it out over our bonnet.

I imagine there will be many more to peruse when they all wake up

ooh ooh wrigglesworth (nuther TA one, busy summer that) - driving through the law range up at catterick and thought we would stop off for some souvenirs as the rocket bodies would make some ally candlesticks for the mantelpiece (like you do) got to shaiba and heard a thumping noise at the back of the rover. H'ed found one with the warhead still attatched and was trying to smash it off! cue red faced PSI and resulting paperwork saving deep hole.

Its been so long now I'm struggling to remember names to faces. Like the idiot at keogh who was bored and decided to let a few rounds off through the fence then claim ira were trying it on.

I did have one gopping recruit when I was a medic at strensall whose toenails were so long they had grown right around the ends and were digging into the joints threatening to cut his own toes off. as it was they got infected and he nearly lost them anyway. or the kid who glassed himself because the married slapper he was seeing told him he wasnt the only one.

ah memories, is the scorpion still pink?

N***l W******s ( a driver mind you) was sent from 7 Sigs, Herford to Bielefeld to pick up a 4 tonner and bring it back to camp.

He drove there in his own car and was faced with the problem of how to get both vehicles back when he was by himself.

"Dangerous" Brian, the man who broke into a rancid Paderborn whore house, the Tropicana, after it was closed and the whores had gone home, he fancied a shag. He didn't find any unnatended whores lying about the place so he just fell asleep amidst a few grands worth of damage. Nice one Brian!

His best mate "Beaker" came second. "Someones been dipping my account Staff" he said clutching his statement showing a series of heavy withdrawals from the cash point.

"Are you sure you didn't draw the money out yourself?"

"Yes Staff, I was on ropes and confined to camp anyway, it wasn't me!"

"Have you given your card and pin to anyone else?"

"No Staff"

"You didn't give the card to anyone to get cash for you did you?"

"No Staff"

"And noone except you knows your pin"

"No Staff"

Twenty minutes later sitting with the German bank manager watching the cash point videos. There were six incidents on film. Four starring, you guessed it, "Dangerous" Brian, drawing first funds for his mate who was confined to camp and then making an immediate further withdrawal for his own sky rocket. The others starred our lanky streak of gwarr shit "Beaker" drawing money in the town whilst he was confined to camp on ropes.

The rest involved much shouting, blurred boots and a coastal resort in East Anglia.

Originally Posted by Zero out

Who was the thickest squaddy that you ever served with?

How did their stupidity manifest itself?

By starting bone threads like this one!

1,2 or 3 PARA

pick one

Are you a dirty internet fibber?

Spr. D****s: Final exercise in training, stand down given and then the order to "get them fuckin trenches filled in". D****s lustily joins in the shovelling and just as the last shovel full went in, D****s asks if any one has seen his SLR. Lots of suspiciously straight face, sucking of teeth and shaking of heads. He reports tremulously to the troop Staffie, who tells him that he has obviously left it in the (now filled in) trenches somewhere and that he'd "better get fuckin diggin" if he didnt want to go straight to jail. Being no stranger to the guardroom, D****s set to digging with alacrity (and a shovel). After about 20 minutes he was getting over heated and decided to remove his combat jacket - and also the SLR which had been slung across his back all the time.

Reason for edit: Inverted commas AWOL. Sentenced to 28 days detention and soldier on.