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**SparkySteve** · 02-10-2007, 21:33

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Try phoning Herford Mil 2222 and asking for one :D :D

Edit Damn beaten to it by a man with a scanner :D

No scanner, just a Soxmis spotter!!

Got 1 in my office still

We where Adv Trg in the Hertz a couple of months ago and as we where walking up the Brocken I was trying to explain the whole IGB and cold war to the youngsters.

I got the distinct impression they thought I was an alien with 2 heads

, still haven’t grown a set big enough to dial 2222 after all these years

Don't fight the Russians on the Playstation, you see?

**CAARPS** · 02-10-2007, 21:45

Originally Posted by Litotes

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Try phoning Herford Mil 2222 and asking for one :D :D

Edit Damn beaten to it by a man with a scanner :D

No scanner, just a Soxmis spotter!!

Got 1 in my office still

We where Adv Trg in the Hertz a couple of months ago and as we where walking up the Brocken I was trying to explain the whole IGB and cold war to the youngsters.

I got the distinct impression they thought I was an alien with 2 heads

, still haven’t grown a set big enough to dial 2222 after all these years

Was that where the standard ski piste brought you right up the fence with very little warning? And you could see the bunkers from which the Ossies watched the Wessies (and us) gallivanting on the slopes?

Litotes

We were staying in the hut directly across from the Brocken.

There are now 3 lodges (huts) in the Hertz (I think), never did a snow queen and although I have spent almost half my military life in BAOR (I know, but it sounds good),I have never trusted my life to a set of planks on pack ice hurtling at a rapid rate of knots in a downward direction

I just find it incredible that troops don’t understand why we are/where in Germany (granted it is only a drawn out withdrawal process now). Although I still gasp when I carry out initial interviews and I am given a date of birth as more recent than when I enlisted (surely I can’t be that old)

**PE4rocks** · 03-10-2007, 15:54

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

I've got some pics somewhere of our Eastern enemy from them days whilst on border patrol, I'll have to dig them out. They were the East German type not 3 Shock Army!

Like this fine specimen you mean?

**jack-daniels** · 03-10-2007, 18:47

Indeed they are!

**Active_Edge_841** · 03-10-2007, 19:03

Originally Posted by extechstmn

We all had to carry these (and do the extras if caught without it). Anyone know where I can get hold of one.

You should have asked that question a year ago

**extechstmn** · 04-10-2007, 08:16

Just my luck. If anyone has one they don't want any more, please PM me.
Cheers.

**Retd_crab** · 09-10-2007, 13:05

Strangely enough i found my old Soxmis card in the garage the other day along with an exercise damage report card from 4 Armd Div.

I was also quartered in Bunde a few years back in the old Soxmis compound, it was quite a nice patch and the old mess was a community centre of sorts.

**Tytus_Barnowl** · 13-10-2007, 22:22

I was never taught military coutesy. Anyone?
TB

**fatcatfred** · 21-10-2007, 10:12

only 2 lodges left in the Harz, Hertz are as far as i know still just doing the car rental thing, but they might like the idea of expanding into huts.

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Originally Posted by Litotes

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

Originally Posted by CAARPS

Try phoning Herford Mil 2222 and asking for one :D :D

Edit Damn beaten to it by a man with a scanner :D

No scanner, just a Soxmis spotter!!

Got 1 in my office still

We where Adv Trg in the Hertz a couple of months ago and as we where walking up the Brocken I was trying to explain the whole IGB and cold war to the youngsters.

I got the distinct impression they thought I was an alien with 2 heads

, still haven’t grown a set big enough to dial 2222 after all these years

Was that where the standard ski piste brought you right up the fence with very little warning? And you could see the bunkers from which the Ossies watched the Wessies (and us) gallivanting on the slopes?

Litotes

We were staying in the hut directly across from the Brocken.

There are now 3 lodges (huts) in the Hertz (I think), never did a snow queen and although I have spent almost half my military life in BAOR (I know, but it sounds good),I have never trusted my life to a set of planks on pack ice hurtling at a rapid rate of knots in a downward direction

I just find it incredible that troops don’t understand why we are/where in Germany (granted it is only a drawn out withdrawal process now). Although I still gasp when I carry out initial interviews and I am given a date of birth as more recent than when I enlisted (surely I can’t be that old)

**RoofRat** · 21-10-2007, 10:40

Originally Posted by PE4rocks

Originally Posted by jack-daniels

I've got some pics somewhere of our Eastern enemy from them days whilst on border patrol, I'll have to dig them out. They were the East German type not 3 Shock Army!

Like this fine specimen you mean?

These weren't soldiers,these were GrenzTruppen,don't confuse the two,these things were/are the scum of the earth,always were and always will be!

Kill an escapee,collect your two week holiday!