ARmy Rumour SErvice

**alfred_the_great** · 03-01-2012, 14:42

Well, it sounds like it was more of a punishment frankly. Or perhaps his inner green foulie was showing through.

**chocolate_frog** · 03-01-2012, 14:54

Originally Posted by A2_Matelot

Major thread divergence butr I recall a summer where MCM10 was so concerned (after a previous incident) that he made us drive ourselves around a parade square pretending to be MCMVs whilst undergoing Fleetwork serials just to judge we wouldn't feck it up once on the 'oggin. It was hysterical and his simmering temper made it all the funnier, I was so pleased I was never an XO back then...

Did you have blokes in the back using their body weight to make the vehicle 'sway' in a realistic fashion? And the Skipper hanging out of hte sunroof.

**LEOLION** · 03-01-2012, 15:00

It seems as if this is just hearsay.I honestly cannot see see a warship going to a warzone underarmed .But to say the Royal Navy is shit beggesrs belief are not all the arms of the forces in the same shit as it is put on here ???

**Roger_Hutchinson** · 03-01-2012, 15:02

No they won't! That lot never learn any lessons because it's not their arses on the line.
As a footnote, a couple of rounds of 84mm from a Carl Gustav almost sank an Argie covette a few years ago during that bit of unpleasantness! An oppo of mine was the Number One on it that fired them.

**Roger_Hutchinson** · 03-01-2012, 15:16

At last! Someone who knows the difference between a Boat and a Bomber!

**instinct** · 03-01-2012, 15:33

Originally Posted by Roger_Hutchinson

No they won't! That lot never learn any lessons because it's not their arses on the line.
As a footnote, a couple of rounds of 84mm from a Carl Gustav almost sank an Argie covette a few years ago during that bit of unpleasantness! An oppo of mine was the Number One on it that fired them.

And you will be happy to know that all our ships are festooned with GPMG's, MK44 miniguns, 25/30mm Cannons and L85's in case there are any nasty men with Carl Gustavs.

**chocolate_frog** · 03-01-2012, 15:37

Originally Posted by Roger_Hutchinson

No they won't! That lot never learn any lessons because it's not their arses on the line.
As a footnote, a couple of rounds of 84mm from a Carl Gustav almost sank an Argie covette a few years ago during that bit of unpleasantness! An oppo of mine was the Number One on it that fired them.

Not quite.

**A2_Matelot** · 03-01-2012, 15:58

Originally Posted by instinct

And you will be happy to know that all our ships are festooned with GPMG's, MK44 miniguns, 25/30mm Cannons and L85's in case there are any nasty men with Carl Gustavs.

Not forgetting the Merlin or Lynx, carrying HMG/.50/GPMG etc to add to the mix...

**A2_Matelot** · 03-01-2012, 16:02

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

Did you have blokes in the back using their body weight to make the vehicle 'sway' in a realistic fashion? And the Skipper hanging out of hte sunroof.

Way lower tech than that - picture up to 6 'squads' of three people (OOW, RO and CO) double timing around an indoor parade square, trying (not very well) to avoid crashing into each other when someone barks out coded manouevre orders - hysterical

I think doing it via the plastic swans on Southseas canoe lake would have been a major realism inject...

**brighton hippy** · 03-01-2012, 16:08

No more stupid than the chairs marking out a Wessex helicopter for learning how to get in and out of one.

Although making wokka wokka noises lead to us running round the camp reassembling the "helicopter" in various places till we took it seriously.
This of course failed to happen