Originally Posted by Cyclic

Not Heinz`s son again ....

no think it was this bloke



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Originally Posted by Rodney2q

Tunstall91

My first contact was very exciting, gave me an adrenalin rush like nothing else and was really cool.

But you come across as a weapons grade knob jockey so I'm not going to tell you about it.

Rodney2q

You just don't want to tell because you were armed with a longbow. Agincourt, wasn't it?

Seriously though, how you keeping, mate?

Originally Posted by dogfondler

You just don't want to tell because you were armed with a longbow. Agincourt, wasn't it?

Seriously though, how you keeping, mate?

Albuhera, with a Brown Bess musket you cheeky young pup! Anyway, despite being older I've still got more hair than you!

But I digress... I'm fine matey, how about you?

Rodney2q

Originally Posted by Bushmills

Hello there!

Thank you for your interest in the psychological welfare of returned soldiers.

I recommend that you ask in this establishment that I beleive is close o your home:

Rainford Ex-Servicemens Club
Cross Pit Lane
Rainford St Helens
Merseyside WA11 8AJ United Kingdom.
Ph: +44.01744-882795

I further recommend you wear white trainers and a badge saying "Kingo's are lazy, thieving chappies"

You can tell them I sent you.

Do let us know how you get on.

Funny enough, and I shit you not, I used to work in an Ex-servicemans club in St. Helens! oh the irony :D

Originally Posted by eodmatt

Tunstall, just who the F do you think you are giving orders on here? I refer specifically to your "if you don't like it, don't respond".

You may not realise it but I was a Corporal in Her Majesties Royal Engineers. As such I don't take orders from the great unwashed and certainly not from stray journo's.

Are you the journo who stuck his head in the back of a truck and asked the squaddies in there if they were with the bomb squad and received the response "Nah mate we're with the Woolwich?" If so, your subsequent article in the London press about the bomb squad from Woolwich was highly imaginative - one hesitates to use the words a tissue of lies.

Like Arti et Al, we who have suffered greatly for our Queen and country do not bear our breasts in public and prefer to share our most traumatic times with our anger management counsellors, or a sympathetic bird with big knockers.

Probably my most traumatic moment was realising that I was going to have to get Biblical with a female (I use the term loosely) called "Socks" from the Snake Pit in Hohne.

The full horror of my predicament did not hit me fully until I witnessed her writhing out of her shattered grey, underwear with unmentionable stains of various colours.

That night was long. I thought it would never end.

I still wake up screaming at the memory of it all.

You can find ways to interpret my post as hostile, and from the reponse you gave I don't much care

Originally Posted by Steven

Not being an infantryman, nor a vet or having recently returned from a tour I feel emminetly suited to reply to this intrepid researchers post.

Problem is I can't be bothered though I do wonder why he seems fixated only on Infantry (yeah yeah I know handsome heroic etc etc fuck off).

I wouldn't say I'm fixated, Im just curious because I intend to be an infantrymen so it seemed more relevant to ask about infantrymen's experiences.

Originally Posted by col4835

If you work this correctly, you may be able to make a TV mini-series out of the replies. There's some really good production companies around nowadays!

Your not wrong there haha

Where's Tropper/Jim24 ?

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Where's Tropper/Jim24 ?

If the thread title was "THE first contact" instead of "YOUR first contact" Tropper would be here as quick as his mobility scooter could carry him.

I never knew we had Vets serving as Infantrymen, id have thought they would have least joined the Cavalry.