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**Muffin_Kicker** · 03-05-2008, 13:58

At least he is wearing his tie!

**SLUDGE** · 03-05-2008, 15:50

Originally Posted by Gundulph

Originally Posted by looney

Call that a sand bag wall?

Well Spotted Loons...

"Headers and Stretchers" and No Seams showing bla bla bla...

Must have been a U.S. Engineer lot who did the honours...

But The Below is kicking the arse out of a sandbag shelter!

F-CK ME just made a brew waiting for that poster to load , nice shelter by the way :D

**Highflight** · 03-05-2008, 16:18

Originally Posted by boney_m

The missus went to Berlin the other day. At Checkpoint Charlie, the stadt have a couple of flunkeys dressed up in Brit, Russian and Yank kit for the tourists to have a gawp at.

Have a look at the clip of the bloke dressed as an RMP! Ex SIB, obviously!!!

That German bastard is taking the piss out of the British, on purpose in my opinion. Obviously Bomber Command did not do a good enough job!.

**delinquent** · 03-05-2008, 16:32

Originally Posted by Gundulph

Originally Posted by looney

Call that a sand bag wall?

Well Spotted Loons...

"Headers and Stretchers" and No Seams showing bla bla bla...

Must have been a U.S. Engineer lot who did the honours...

But The Below is kicking the arse out of a sandbag shelter!

Mr Michelin - hats off...

**delinquent** · 03-05-2008, 16:34

Originally Posted by boney_m

The missus went to Berlin the other day. At Checkpoint Charlie, the stadt have a couple of flunkeys dressed up in Brit, Russian and Yank kit for the tourists to have a gawp at.

Have a look at the clip of the bloke dressed as an RMP! Ex SIB, obviously!!!

Can't this get put into the walt thread?

Surely this guy is taking the piss or he's 110 :D

**Berlin_104s** · 03-05-2008, 17:14

Originally Posted by feckemall

When I used to do Charlie it was generally classed as a quiet number where you could relieve your hangover from an Aussie tour the night before.

The image presented is not that different from some of the guys we would drop there actually. If it was the Tiergarten PP NCO, he would be much worse, if in uniform at all.

Bloody perestroika (?) has a lot to answer for! Ruined a good number, especially 246!

I don't recognise that Checkpoint Charlie building, it is not the one that I worked in from 1989 to when it shut in 1990. The phrase 'Aussie tour' is a blast from the past! When were you there Feckemall? I was on the closure parade when the Yanks lifted it out with a crane and I still have a piece from the foundations to go with my (genuine) bit of The Wall.

It was very cushy when you were on nights because you could get your head down at 0100 once the last traveller had come back over. However, days on weekends or bank holidays were no fun, especially during the summer.

The Germans have their display a bit wrong though, they should delete the Russian and insert a French Gendarme - after all they stagged-on in there as well. The only Russians I ever saw at Charlie was when the Soviet Duty Officer arrived in his Lada staff car to sign the DOB.

Berlin.

PS. That is not me BTW!

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**feckemall** · 03-05-2008, 17:37

I was there in 1984-85 followed by a year at Helmstedt - spoiled rotten as a young un eh? After that it went tragically wrong starting with a tour at Werl . . .

**looney** · 03-05-2008, 21:42

Gundulph, they are some looooooooooonnngggg sand bags.
Hesco bags maybe?

**g1ngar** · 01-08-2010, 10:46

They have the last checkpoint at the Alliierten museum on Clayallee.

**CaptainPlume** · 01-08-2010, 11:14

Originally Posted by whosthedaddy

By the way, you lot can stick to your man at Q&M suits, ginger, for the use of. I quite like wearing a suit for work, far classier!

Aha, if you are RMP in civilian dress then you will also love the fact that your suit does not need cleaning or ironing just a gentle buff with some wire wool now & again to restore the shine ;)