ARmy Rumour SErvice

**shortfuse** · 19-01-2009, 23:37

Colvin Troop 1986-87

3 troop 57 sqn 1987
Spent the entire year on bed packs and room inspections every morning courtesy of our jug eared troop sergeant (ex EOD, Ex training regiments, hated JL's passionately)
JLRRE was a fantastic year, hard as f uck but fair (apart from the unfair bits)
Half the Permanent staff were borderline phsycotics, the other half had crossed the border many moons ago.
Looking around who's still in from snippets you hear, most have done very well, wether reaching WO or in several cases making succesful trips "West" via 9 squadron.
I still remember turning up at Gib Barracks the day after passing out at Dover, dropped off by my old man, i grabbed my bag from the boot and walked to the guardroom window.
"Sapper shortfuse reporting from Dover Staff"
"Ah yes, here you are young man, 3 troop 57 squadron, oh just one thing before you go, at Dover..... did they teach you any drill?"
"er.....yes Staff?"
"WELL MARCH UP TO THIS F UCKING WINDOW YOU IDLE C-UNT OR ILL BREAK YOUR F UCKING LEGS, ON YOUR BACK DOOOOOWN LEGS SIX INCHES RAAAAISE"
My old mad slunk back into his motor and drove out the gate, I didn't wave, i was busy doing burpees at this point.

**treborre** · 20-01-2009, 15:52

5 Troop 66 Sqn. Feb 86 - Feb 87. Not my favourite year of my life so far! Made to shout "5 Troop Together" whilst running anywhere (our un-official troop motto at the time) - by fcuk did I hate singing that!!!!

**safetyman** · 22-01-2009, 08:24

Salerno Tp 54 Sqn,, 86 - 87 - TOP TROOP ! The best year ever !

**right-grumpy** · 22-01-2009, 08:48

Teddytats I think your memory is letting you down a little, let me see if mine is better.

54 Sqn June 1981 senior troops were Rhine and Burma, the brand new junior intake was Anzio and Arnhem. Anzio and Arnhem were on the top floor. When Rhine and Burma passed-off ( Sept time I think?)your intake moved into the middle floor, (ground floor was offices and stores). Therefore your senior troops were Anzio and Arnhem.

Anyone with a brain knew that Anzio were the best, romped home in the log race with a clear 300m

Now we never entered your lines and beat you with towel rails……… they were fixed to the wall so we used locker-bars!

**Sapper145** · 22-01-2009, 09:01

Burma Tp, 54 Sqn 1989 -90. The horror! Feckin hard work at times but it was worth it.

**creepy** · 23-01-2009, 20:46

safetyman said "Salerno Tp 54 Sqn,, 86 - 87 - TOP TROOP ! The best year ever ! "

that's bollox and you know it - Knox Troop 82 Sqn were top troop because of the cheating arabs who missed the horse trough - selective memory eh??

**drewbonny** · 23-05-2009, 21:27

Have you got any photos of your time with the JR's please? If so would you be prepared to let me have copies for some research I am doing? Cheers.

**drewbonny** · 23-05-2009, 21:31

Have you got information about the 'shindig' please?

**drewbonny** · 23-05-2009, 21:35

Hi mate

You got any photos of your time there? Would you let me have copies? I'm doing some research. Cheers

**engineer1969** · 27-05-2009, 10:51

I started my Army career in Oct 86 courtesy of the JLRRE Old Park Barracks.

I was in Rhine Tp 54 Sqn and we had the top corridor in the block that housed the cook house (handy for scoff if you started queing early enough)!!

The year spent at OPB was at times tough but definatley character building, room inspections on the square, getting thrashed up and down "heart break hill", battles in the bridging lines, getting drunk down town in the "quay" public house and fighting the Irish Rangers, adventure training at Capel Curig, construction project in Chatham (more drinking), doing an extra final exercise to use up the allocation of blank and pyro, getting my first tatoo in Folkstone (and then getting charged along with numerous others from the troop for self inflicted wounds).

Impressing the PT staff with a forward roll and then being selected for the gymnastics display team (who else will own up to that)!!

I can't remember all our permanent staff but two that are burned into my memory are the SSM (WO2 Quin***en) who had bells sewn into his lightweights so you could hear him coming, always smart as a carrot and scarey to boot I remember Sqn parades with fear.

The other was our troop Sgt (T**ny G***all) a hard (boxer) but fair man, made me do press ups in the range hut at Lydd and Hythe whilst adding a little extra weight to my back - then had us fill our lightweights with stones and double up and down from the 300mr to 100mr point.

58 webbing and the SLR.

Happy character building days, so much so that I should have been out the end of this year but signed up for Veng so will do 24 years in the Corps
all thanks to the JLRRE - I must be mad