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Les S still going! good to hear, though i must have been one of his near failures, swimming like a brick was my style, he did try unlike a short arrsed PTI who nearly drowned me. Nice guy though, glad he is still going.

Originally Posted by scarletto

Les S still going! good to hear, though i must have been one of his near failures, swimming like a brick was my style, he did try unlike a short arrsed PTI who nearly drowned me. Nice guy though, glad he is still going.

I remember a foolish moment before enlisting where, I wavered towards the Navy as my grandfather had gone through WW1 to partway through WW2 as a Matelot!!!!! Walked into the Navy recruiting office, Mayflower street Plymouth and........................saw a fcukin huge poster of a Leander class Figgin-gate storming thru the waves. My next thought was.............I can't swim and there's a lot of water there!!!!! Back to plan 1 - JLR RAC. About week 4 - get in the pool you're learning to swim!!! Owe the swimming to Les - good man albeit a little gozzie eyed bless 'im.
Particularly remember 2nd term the log run followed by - run to spiders - change into overalls and 38 pattern webbing - run back to gym but.........jump in the pool and try to tread water for 3 minutes!!!!!!! - 40 of us trying to stay up....in the deep end........using each others heads for bouyancy then 2 times round the pool sides!!!!!!

I was in the sub aqua club that was run by the APTC Ssgt. His assistant was a PTI who was a Cpl in (I think) 3RTR.

You are right, flyinghussar. It was good fun. It sounds as if you and I were there not too far apart.

Anyone remember the radio exercise. Where someone, Dave H he might have been a BBB. Their wagon was in a shopping centre car park. So for a laugh he stuck his 35ft lead to his kit jumped out and started asking shoppers.

"Excuse madam what do you think of polos". I memory serves some little old lady attacked him with extreme prejudice...............and her shopping bag.

I got us locked up by farmer giles on Dartmoor. Remember we were'nt allowed off road. Well I spotted a sort of road, which would have put in a position to egg skippy's landrover. Only the sort of road ran out. so we went back only farmy giles had chained and padlocked the gate.

Hello zero this is 0ne Three, No Duff over"

Hi smokey I joined spring term 68 two weeks after my 15th birthday. B sqn. PM me if you think that fits your time scale. PTI S/sgt little muscley guy called Ty.....r methinks. went to tank museum last year first time since I left bloody hell got some gear there :D :D

smokey should have said if you havnt visited page 64 on this thread have a look several pictures of bods you may recognise

So did any of you come on the sub aqua expedition that I took up to Oban in summer '78. Some naughty little bu**ers brought some burds back to the campsite and forgot to get rid of them before breakfast! As I opened the 160pdr tent door all I could see was scanties disappearing out the back!

Originally Posted by Arthur3bums

Originally Posted by scarletto

Les S still going! good to hear, though i must have been one of his near failures, swimming like a brick was my style, he did try unlike a short arrsed PTI who nearly drowned me. Nice guy though, glad he is still going.

I remember a foolish moment before enlisting where, I wavered towards the Navy as my grandfather had gone through WW1 to partway through WW2 as a Matelot!!!!! Walked into the Navy recruiting office, Mayflower street Plymouth and........................saw a fcukin huge poster of a Leander class Figgin-gate storming thru the waves. My next thought was.............I can't swim and there's a lot of water there!!!!! Back to plan 1 - JLR RAC. About week 4 - get in the pool you're learning to swim!!! Owe the swimming to Les - good man albeit a little gozzie eyed bless 'im.
Particularly remember 2nd term the log run followed by - run to spiders - change into overalls and 38 pattern webbing - run back to gym but.........jump in the pool and try to tread water for 3 minutes!!!!!!! - 40 of us trying to stay up....in the deep end........using each others heads for bouyancy then 2 times round the pool sides!!!!!!

The whole of the RAC from that period must be experts in butterfly & must have flashbacks if they ever see it on TV.

My most strange experience would occour during the radio phase of our training. The SNCO who took us for the VP lesson's were a 'Lancer', big moustache & wait for it...... a very, very bad stutter One poor lad who had normal speech at the start of that phase ended up having a stutter & the Instructor threatend to jail him. as he thought he were taking the p*ss :D

And before I forget my gunny instructor, were 4/7th & had one eye Seriously he did & a wicked sense of humour