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Originally Posted by fingers_1661

Groundhog (tracker dog,a long haired German shepherd to be precise) sank its teeth into one of our blokes after he ran through the scent-trail during an RPG7 attach in Belfast in 1984.

Sadly he is no longer with us.



RIP Egor Brown.

Would that be Egor Brown from the 3rd Battalion the Queens Regiment ?

South Armargh 79-80 tour ,one of our search teams , doing an occupied house search pulls open bedroom draw and find quite a lot of condoms. keeps stum and carries on the search, meanwhile at the time a lot of cars were getting stolen , the search commander asks the householder does he have any info on any stolen cars? "no soldier" came the reply. Eventually the search comes to its end , the search commander takes the home owner around the house to check for any damage . He askes the same question "no" came the reply , on cue search commander pulls open draw , exposing the pile of condoms . And states if you bullshit me , i will tell your Parish Priest whats in this draw ......cue paddy singing like an cannery , with some good GEN .

Originally Posted by homeworker

I got jiffed by a mate to go to The Maze one Thursday, when I got back the SNCO asked, innocently, ''was it a bit smelly?'' the glue factory over the road used to boil the bones on Thursday - I never, ever want to smell anything like that again.

Being in the 'The Coach' in Banbridge and knowing that the Paras had arrived because the bouncer came through the door 3 feet off the ground.

Fond memories of shagging a right noisy monster outside the Thursday disco at the Maze mid 80s - then getting applauded by the roving patrol. Happy Days!!

We were on the outskirts of Crossmaglen just after dusk, when the platoon commander found s child's doll on a tip. Platoon commander pulls head off doll and srews it on the top of his right angle torch (complete with red fiiter) as we re-enter the village he spots a shop that has just closed up and two girls sitting on the counter chatting as they have turned off most of the lights in the shop except for the one over the counter the front of the shop and street are in the dark. Platoon commander switches on his torch and places the dolls head against the window and knocks on it. I could still here the girls screaming as we ran down the road as fast as we could.

On a Farmer's daughter in Fermanagh. Pte S. stops in to have a chat with a Prot farmer and we carry on. He's at the back so I don't see him until he gets back in the gate at Kinawley. By then we'd had about 100 complaints.

The farmer had given him a framed print of King Billy and he'd stuck it in his web strap, over his chest. It's a Sunday. We'd just passed about a million rat catchers heading home from church.

Originally Posted by lightning47

Passing the CO and Prime Minister on the stairs in GCH. CO to me "Ah Craftsman Lightning47, have you got anything to say to the Prime Minister. Lightning47 "No sir, I'm a Tory" (I wish - just stick at the first two words and that's closer to the truth).

Reminds me of Belcoo RUC station. (I read somewhere that it was demolished / encouraged to collapse in 1996 and rebuilt as a state of the art building - Google Streets suggests true - just in time for the Good Friday Agreement) 1976.

Merlyn Rees, NI Secretary was going to visit so we were volunteered to dig out out, clean and spruce it up. After the best part of a decade full to the brim with squaddies. Nice. We might have called it the Hilton, but salubrious it wasn't.

Barsteward never bothered.

TWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!

Somebody told me years ago that some Crab officers chucked Merlyn Rees into a fountain when he was paying an evening visit.

Originally Posted by AlienFTM

Reminds me of Belcoo RUC station. (I read somewhere that it was demolished / encouraged to collapse in 1996 and rebuilt as a state of the art building - Google Streets suggests true - just in time for the Good Friday Agreement)

Belcoo and Belleek were the last two stations in Fermanagh to get the mk10 to mk 15 upgrade. When the first ceasefire happened in 1994 the Army pulled their part of the funding from the project so only the police accommodation was upgraded.

Of course when the ceasefire broke in 1996 troops were deployed back into the border stations that weekend. Back into the knackered mk10 accommodation 'that the Army would never need again' and they stayed in it until 2005. Not the same ones obviously, we let them out now and again!

Just before the ceasefire broke there was a plan to remove the blast wall from around Belcoo station and have it completely open to the public. That plan got kicked into touch very quickly.