Originally Posted by Sabre

miz if only you knew , you know for a fact you cant call me a walt, as i have never pretended to be some thing i am not, i have played paintball since before i joined the forces, all the way through my time in the forces, and now i still play it after i have left.

so if you want to call me a walt for doing a hobby for the past 15 years and being part of a team(military or civvy), that were european champions at it, and getting paid as professionals aswell, then so what i dont care.

But miz it does actually help if you have served to call some one a walt, rather than a groupie!

Hearty congrats Sabs on being European Walt Champions...erm..have I missed the point here? Well, well done anyway!

As for re-enactors, the Khaki Pals are pretty good actually. There has however to be something just a tad wierd about dressing up as Sturmbannfuhrer Eichman and driving your mobile shower unit from county show to county show...

Originally Posted by cdo_gunner

Its like these battle re-enactments groups you see on the anniversaries like D/Day and Arnhem, they really think their there in that time. The old boys hate them too

Actually many don't. Quite the reverse in fact.

you must one of them. come out it ok your not that RSM..who thought he was?

on a sad note

Sadly Peter Mackenzie DCM ( an Arnhem Veteran ) recently passed away
Another Veteran moves to higher ground RIP sir

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...post?id=401965

Last time I was in Arnhem, the re-enactment group, all Dutch, were graceful, dignified and a bloody good bunch of lads...however a couple of years later I nearly had to kick teeth in at a US Walt-a-be convention where the boys re-enacting thought they were worthy of the same esteem as the guys they made a pastiche of. A few whiskies later and I was disarmed but I still recall the eighteen stone, five foot troll in the Dennison smock..who is mine, okay?? He was a cnut..not even ex-US Army the tosser but awful brave with the verbals. He needed some contact counselling..

Originally Posted by Ord_Sgt

Lost for words. Who are these people?

AGC Clerks.

When I was still in a big bunch of my civvy pals went paintballing.

A pal of mine Andy was a pathfinder in the Paras and it was deemed that he would come out as the ultiamte paintballing champion.

The final game was a free for all so he and I as a prearranged done deal agreed that we would slot all the civvies then it would be between him and I.

The game started and he was my battle partner, the first civvy fell pray to our superior fieldcraft skills.... It dawned on me that I would lose eventually and this began to p1ss me off.

I got Andies attention and he turned to look at me.... With a genuine feeling of sorrow and guilt I shot him square in the face........ he was out of the game and genuinely gutted. He was mortified that he had been double crossed and his eyes painted a real picture.

I went on to win the game and lift the prize.... In the bar all night he never said a word... but didn't shirk his rounds or fill me in.

He did tell me the following day that I was a dirty cheating * and that I had been drinking his p1ss all evening :D

I was on exercise with my unit last November in pippingford park when we chanced upon a bunch of these walt re-enactors dressed up as SS and US army types, as we were enemy-less for the weekend, we asked them if they wanted to be our enemy for our ambushes and recce patrols. They immediately agreed and got very excited.

Anyway later whilst leading a recce patrol my section got bumped, so trapped and unable to fall back, being surrounded, we charged these hun weasels (or walt hun weasels) in good old otc/rambo fashion. Their reaction was outstanding they rolled around playing dead in an especially dramatic fashion with cries of 'teuffel!', 'gott in himmel' screaming 'raus, raus!' as they did a runner. We actually stopped and stood there for some time staring at them in utter bewilderment as they withdrew with shouts of 've'll get u next time tommy!' i couldn't beleive the waltiness of these people.

Later still (about 0100) we ambushed them with more cries of 'himmel' and 'oh i'm dying my poor kinder!' And in the morning when we were tabbing back to the buses they lept out of the bushes trying to ambush us with even more fanciful cries of 'for you tommy ze war is over' throughly unimpressed we just marched on ignoring them.

I have never seen such a display of waltiness in my entire life, where do these people come from?

[quote="Countrylad"]I was on exercise with my unit last November in pippingford park when we chanced upon a bunch of these walt re-enactors dressed up as SS and US army types, as we were enemy-less for the weekend, we asked them if they wanted to be our enemy for our ambushes and recce patrols. They immediately agreed and got very excited.

Anyway later whilst leading a recce patrol my section got bumped, so trapped and unable to fall back, being surrounded, we charged these hun weasels (or walt hun weasels) in good old otc/rambo fashion. Their reaction was outstanding they rolled around playing dead in an especially dramatic fashion with cries of 'teuffel!', 'gott in himmel' screaming 'raus, raus!' as they did a runner. We actually stopped and stood there for some time staring at them in utter bewilderment as they withdrew with shouts of 've'll get u next time tommy!' i couldn't beleive the waltiness of these people.

Later still (about 0100) we ambushed them with more cries of 'himmel' and 'oh i'm dying my poor kinder!' And in the morning when we were tabbing back to the buses they lept out of the bushes trying to ambush us with even more fanciful cries of 'for you tommy ze war is over' throughly unimpressed we just marched on ignoring them.

I have never seen such a display of waltiness in my entire life, where do these people come from?[/quote]

From TACs up and down the country every weekend?

I remember seeing a local TV program about a group of Vietnam re-enacttors, this is in the UK alright. Basically they meet up every now and then and go "humping the boonies" really really sad, they even had a walt VC

Thing I did remember was one said that he had never met a vietnam vet and quite frankly never wanted to, he would be too embarised

THIS has got to be THE most pointless walt group yet

Paras in the 80's and 90's

Our Objectives:-To promote through physical presence and displays the role that 5 Airborne Brigade had in the 1980's and 1990's.

This can be achieved by putting people and equipment on display at Military Shows throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. This is intended to give a true representation and feel of the units involved and those that served with them.

Feast your eyes on a REAL paratrooper 10 man rat pack



Look at radio equipment so old that its still in service



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Join us and you too can dress up as a real para and unload the CQMS cookset

Originally Posted by wellyhead

Basically they meet up every now and then and go "humping the boonies"

I go humping the boonies every saturday down the swan's nest. They seem to like it, does it make me a walt?