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**RobinHood** · 23-01-2006, 19:04

WOW, nice answers - some of you were there when I was there
90A/ Blenheim

OC (PARA) couldnt make it on Exersize!!! (Poof)

Anyone remember CSM, B Company?

Fantastic Bloke - if I could be half the man ........................................

Anyone have one of the original "BAD company" T-Shirts?

**Tiffy_Massive** · 23-01-2006, 19:27

Let me just get that light swinging and moving.

Nov 1980 Depot & Training Bn REME. We didn't have names for Pl's back then and it's that long ago that i can't remember the number either.
We had to wear 37 pattern webbing, 1 blankoed set for around camp and 1 blacked set for SAA and exercises. Sh1t runs through the ditches and culvers on a saturday morning followed by a hoseing down with the fire hoses to get rid of the sh1t. Deep joy.

Can think what was No1 at the time, we never got the time to listen to the radio and TV's were still the preserve of the rich.

**ArmySurplusSpecial** · 23-01-2006, 21:45

Originally Posted by RobinHood

Anyone remember CSM , B Company?

Fantastic Bloke - if I could be half the man ........................................

Anyone have one of the original "BAD company" T-Shirts?

les was my CSM in B Coy when i moved on out of Jeepland. Brilliant bloke although he did get called "Lying les" by the ones who didnt like him. i actually went for a pint with him after he got out along with my old Tp Sgt

Good guys and good times.

i've still got a "Bravo Nut Stranglers" T Shirt around somewhere although i very much doubt it would fit me anymore!!

**Heywood_Jablowme** · 23-01-2006, 22:18

Les took over Judge Rudge Gren Gds. he was evil personified. i was caught pulling faces behind Dicky Scratch and was sent to the Judge.
he asked me why i had been sent to him and i said for pulling faces, he said 'show me this face you've been pulling'
bearing in mind i'm crapping myself, i begin to gurn to attention.
Surreal experience, 5 extras.

**Gun_Doc** · 23-01-2006, 22:25

90c, Dettingen Platoon then D Company (with the yellow "Who Dares Repairs" t shirts!)

A re release of Unchained Melody sticks in the mind the most.

A couple of lads caught smoking wackie backie in that strange OP type hut by the drill square.

I remember a big stink when the new commandant reshuffled the companies so trades would be together. Weapons and Aircraft became D Coy.

2 of the female education corps officers dressed up as st trinnians school girls for comic relief and collected money in the scoff queue- amazing for a growing 17 year old lad!

1 of the said officers was famous for screaming " d company, d company rah rah rah" during some sports match and it became the PMC catch phase for many, many months.

**ArmySurplusSpecial** · 23-01-2006, 22:36

Originally Posted by Heywood_Jablowme

Les took over Judge Rudge Gren Gds. he was evil personified. i was caught pulling faces behind Dicky Scratch

Dicky Scratch, fcuk me!! "end of the snips......... end of the cut" or, "good, bad or indifferent??"

he had a christmas tree tattooed on his forearm too if i remember rightly! :D

**catchyerselfon** · 24-01-2006, 13:44

[quote="ArmySurplusSpecial"]

Originally Posted by Heywood_Jablowme

he had a christmas tree tattooed on his forearm too if i remember rightly! :D

Ha ha told us he done after dropping into Suez and the lads didnt have a proper tree for Chrimbo. So out came Dicky a needle form his housewife and some good old KIWI! Jobs a good 'un
The lads danced round the now tattoo'd and probably bleeding/suffering from Polish poisioning Dicky!
"I'll stick me dick in your ear, it wont be an interference fit!" "A little Dicky Scratch there"
Do you remeber the abortion of a tool box he used to pull from underneath the desk that was made by TAYLOR 057 now he was a Barclays Banker! Anything you coulda done wrong, he had.

**BlotBangRub** · 24-01-2006, 15:39

Dicky Scratch, what a bloke! Mr Curley to be precise, as in

"Dont try to skive with old Curley, Old Curley wrote the book on skiving" as he told a colleague of mine. (Mo, you out there?)

Another real character was Mr Langton, who informed me I had "more flannel than a pusser's blanket" I later learned that this was high praise indeed, as a pusser's blanket is entirely flannel.

**Doughnut** · 24-01-2006, 16:17

88B / Alamein / 2 Section
I guess that kind of narrows it down.....

Song...? Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 ? or was it .....

I do remember Blondie "Ave Maria" on the old SMC in 99.....or was 98...the grey matter is fading....

I can remember "Judge Rudge"...and "Blakey"...nice bloke....made me polish the guardroom ceiling with a mop....twat.