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13-07-2005, 11:45 #31Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
If when having a drink of water you have ever used your clasp knife to pull the cork out of your cloth covered water bottle, taken a swig and re-stowed it in your 48 Pattern Webbing.
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13-07-2005, 11:50 #32Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
the POL point was a haystack
DeadHorse likes this.The more said the less the better.
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13-07-2005, 11:52 #33Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
37, 44, 58 I'm familiar with. 48 I've never come across........
Originally Posted by Ranger_Danger
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13-07-2005, 11:56 #34Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
Sorry, senile dementia. Meant 44 pattern. My age you know old chap. Originally Posted by BFG 9000
37, 44, 58 I'm familiar with. 48 I've never come across........ Originally Posted by Ranger_Danger
Doctor told me that I have Altzheimers but not to worry, just to go home and forget about it.
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13-07-2005, 11:56 #35Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
This morning I found myself saying "I served with your father" to a young Captain.
Grey hair - me?The only thing you get with less is less.
MG Edwards DCOM Ops US 3rd Army
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13-07-2005, 11:56 #36Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
When your 'Combat Jacket' was red with brass buttons!
'You are Infantry, you are cannon fodder, GET OVER IT!' WO2 Wilkinson
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13-07-2005, 12:02 #37Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
When you remember the air raid sirens going off in WW2
Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
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13-07-2005, 12:14 #38Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
Now that really is scary! Originally Posted by hamster_man
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13-07-2005, 12:28 #39Senior Member
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
Real examples of becoming an old sweat , not the tired old similies.
He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
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13-07-2005, 12:41 #40Moderator
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Re: How do you know when you are an old sweat?
When you meet someone who you last saw when he was a spotty young recruit that you were training at the depot... and the fecker's now a WO1
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