Where? - Birmingham so its central for the northern and southern lads.
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A meeting of Arctic warriors. Old and Bald and some still serving, (but still old and bald) lol.
A get together of those who have endured extreme temperatures and survived to tell the tale. A brotherhood that will never be broken!
249 - an awesome unit. If you're an ex 249'er and you haven't heard about this gathering of fine men, let me know and ill put you in the picture.
Crap belts allowed lol. If you want to invite more then that's fine.

Time to party.

Just a suggestion Barny. If you want to attract some of us old and bold, you may want to cut down on the "lols" in your post. Time to Party? It sounds to me like you are inviting us to a rave and that is definitely not something I would consider!
(ex 249).

No mate, it ain't a rave, and I was in a cracking mood writing the description out hence the lol's. Didn't know it was a crime to chuckle away pal?

And besides, there are 175 people invited to this do so far with service spanning back to the early 80's so if I get no joy from this thread I'm not too fused.

What year did you leave slipperman?

PM sent mate

GMOB

Originally Posted by 1BarnyRubble

No mate, it ain't a rave, and I was in a cracking mood writing the description out hence the lol's. Didn't know it was a crime to chuckle away pal?

And besides, there are 175 people invited to this do so far with service spanning back to the early 80's so if I get no joy from this thread I'm not too fused.

What year did you leave slipperman?

It's probably my age. No offence intended Barny and it sounds like a grand gathering. I left the Army last year and was at 249 during the period 98-00. Some great times, but, at the end of it all, the AMF (L) was nothing but a "flag-waving" politicised irrevalence, in my opinion. As ever, the boys just got on with it professionally, did the business and ignored all the sheer ineptitude of most of the other nations involved! Have a great one.

Some pics here. No rebros though.

AMF (L) AMF (A) - The Army Rumour Service

Originally Posted by slipperman

It's probably my age. No offence intended Barny and it sounds like a grand gathering. I left the Army last year and was at 249 during the period 98-00. Some great times, but, at the end of it all, the AMF (L) was nothing but a "flag-waving" politicised irrevalence, in my opinion. As ever, the boys just got on with it professionally, did the business and ignored all the sheer ineptitude of most of the other nations involved! Have a great one.

I was there during the early nineties.

Yes, there was a small core of professional blokes at the squadron but there was also a lot of bluffing wasters.

The "pinching the hotel owner's wifes x-country skies and strapping them to your own military vehicle incident" springs to mind when we were using the Stalheim hotel as a base.

The drug use going on between a number of siggies and JNCOs was also an eye opener.

In short the unit was shite and thrived only on its undeserved good reputation of "Arctic Warriors" and "the stable belt".

Originally Posted by Badger_Heed

I was there during the early nineties.

Yes, there was a small core of professional blokes at the squadron but there was also a lot of bluffing wasters.

The "pinching the hotel owner's wifes x-country skies and strapping them to your own military vehicle incident" springs to mind when we were using the Stalheim hotel as a base.

The drug use going on between a number of siggies and JNCOs was also an eye opener.

In short the unit was shite and thrived only on its undeserved good reputation of "Arctic Warriors" and "the stable belt".

You going to the reunion then Badger Heed?

Originally Posted by slipperman

You going to the reunion then Badger Heed?

I certainly am, I've got a set of X country skies and an ounce of Morrocan Black I need to shift.

Did my pre Norway training at Bulford with 249, I vaguely remember wearing the arctic socks as a kind of putee over the ski march boot, walking around with big fuck off white leg warmers over your boots.