Originally Posted by Tiffy_71

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Guard Duty scab packs with the NATO standard ham and cucumber or Cheese and pickle sarnies. What was the name of those crisps that accompanied them? I'd never seen them anywjhere else but in an Army scab pack!

What about du Maurier tabs in the little red flip box. Do they still do them?

The Chieftain tank.

Ah yes AB - can't be far off the same time of serving... how about the bags of loose tea and sugar for guardroom rations, and two tins of evaporated milk?

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Evaporated milk. It was facking awful. Coffee or tea (Guardroom brews always tasted the same) in a brown stained 57 pattern mug which had been in the guardroom since '57.

The loose tea and sugar which was generally found all over the floor as the tea stained white paper bag was always burst within 5 minutes of leaving the cookhouse.

Bensons Crisps!!!!!.....anybody remember them? ( I asked around today) I haven't seen them in any shops......ever. The Red Shield wagons that followed you everywhere, until the NAAFI got them banned from camp. Who was the old German guy who drove the Red Shiled wagon on Soltau? He knew exactly where you would be, even though your wagons were cammed up.

Back onto the subject of Datsun (that's Nissan for the under 30s),Senior ranks all had the Datsun Bluebird.

The brass strip on the Guardroom floor where the SUS would have to stand when the Provost wanted them. Shells at the guardroom which accompanied the SUS everywhere .

The Fire Barrow!...........and the fire piquet. Charging round with a handcart and a hose, as the fully kitted out German Feuerwehr looked on in curiosity and mild amusement. Nothing was too embarrassing for the British Army.

Also,

When nobody got issued waterproofs because that was what your skin was for.
When you remember accomodation that still had a chimney in the middle of the room
When your first combat jacket had only no zip pockets and button cuffs (and weighed more than you did when it got wet)

Benson's crisps are still going, I had some in a horror box not long ago, along with one of those revolting cheese pasties.

Other old sweat things:

Izal stylee shiny lavatory paper - worse than useless, but every sheet had 'government property' printed on it.

Non-direct dial phones - the mil operator interrupting calls with 'Are you working?', and disconnecting you without waiting for an answer...

SOXMIS cards

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Originally Posted by Tiffy_71

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Guard Duty scab packs with the NATO standard ham and cucumber or Cheese and pickle sarnies. What was the name of those crisps that accompanied them? I'd never seen them anywjhere else but in an Army scab pack!

What about du Maurier tabs in the little red flip box. Do they still do them?

The Chieftain tank.

Ah yes AB - can't be far off the same time of serving... how about the bags of loose tea and sugar for guardroom rations, and two tins of evaporated milk?

?

Evaporated milk. It was facking awful. Coffee or tea (Guardroom brews always tasted the same) in a brown stained 57 pattern mug which had been in the guardroom since '57.

The loose tea and sugar which was generally found all over the floor as the tea stained white paper bag was always burst within 5 minutes of leaving the cookhouse.

Bensons Crisps!!!!!.....anybody remember them? ( I asked around today) I haven't seen them in any shops......ever. The Red Shield wagons that followed you everywhere, until the NAAFI got them banned from camp. Who was the old German guy who drove the Red Shiled wagon on Soltau? He knew exactly where you would be, even though your wagons were cammed up.

Back onto the subject of Datsun (that's Nissan for the under 30s),Senior ranks all had the Datsun Bluebird.

The brass strip on the Guardroom floor where the SUS would have to stand when the Provost wanted them. Shells at the guardroom which accompanied the SUS everywhere .

The Fire Barrow!...........and the fire piquet. Charging round with a handcart and a hose, as the fully kitted out German Feuerwehr looked on in curiosity and mild amusement. Nothing was too embarrassing for the British Army.

Wolfgang?

Originally Posted by Tiffy_71

Compo came in tins (Tiffin and boiled sweets anyone??)

Them were the days! Wonder if they still have Processed Cheese and Curried chicken? Not to mention those god awful dried biscuit things!!! Think you were supposed to add milk!! Never could find any. Did find a few cans of dandruff though.

Originally Posted by maninblack

When you look at your first kit issue and realise that non of it is still offered by the stores.

When you remember heating a spoon over a candle and burning your boots down.

When you drove Landrovers that had mesh grills with lights in them.

If you ever fired an SLR with brown wooden bits.

If your No2 jackets had little brass loops for the belt.

Oh dear!!! I remember all of this list

Originally Posted by Ranger_Danger

There are no TRF patches on your uniform and a single new stripe SEWN on your right shirt sleeve.

And that stripe came off a lot quicker than it went on, I can assure you. The RSM seemed to be picking on me that day

Originally Posted by ViroBono

Benson's crisps are still going, I had some in a horror box not long ago, along with one of those revolting cheese pasties.

Other old sweat things:

Izal stylee shiny lavatory paper - worse than useless, but every sheet had 'government property' printed on it.

Non-direct dial phones - the mil operator interrupting calls with 'Are you working?', and disconnecting you without waiting for an answer...

SOXMIS cards

Sad sad fcuk that I am I still have a SOXMIS card. Found it while clearing out a loada junk in the drawer at home and didn't have the heart to chuck it away....

In 2008 I'll have done 20 years in uniform

9 RAF and 7 TA so far

Anyone else remember having to make your wash kit fit in a soap dish or was that one particular nco having a laff

na......swan vesta box