Did the army consider using German equipment?

[Listy]

Oh be fair, we were told that Toe Tectors and hard hat would help in the event that we got hit by a tug or a forty footer.

Anything will help, it's just a question of "will it help enough".

 

[LeoRoverman]

Anything will help, it's just a question of "will it help enough".

Well one deckie found out there was enough for a couple of bin liners. RIP poor sod.

 

[OllieReeder]

When Rifkind was SoS he was taken down to (I believe) SPTA to have his obligatory photo op in DPM getting down with the lads. Obviously putting him in a Chieftain turret would have been a bit too Maggie-esque (and she’d only just left) so he was set up to do a bit of live firing with an 81mm mortar.

Unfortunately just as the cameras started rolling he attempted to insert the bomb fuse-first.

I was in MB at the time and I saw the photo

Unfortunately it was pre-Internet so I haven’t been able to find a copy.

IIRC @Bubbles_Barker has also seen it.

Oh yes. Probably still holds first place for embarrassing photos of Secretaries of State, despite Geoff Hoon's valiant efforts - the pink shirt and hands on hips whilst visiting RM on Saif Sareea, and the very small female / Gurkha sized ECBA during his first trip to theatre during Telic - on him, looked like the body armour equivalent of a boob tube. Not inappropriate, given he was a massive tit.

The one that did not get out was a certain junior minister visiting a TA unit in NI, wearing a bowler hat. He knew damned well what he was doing... v naughty.

 

[Bravo_Bravo]

A 'Dumb' from QKR for making him look silly on another thread? ....diddums

He's a bit weak for a Commissioned type.

I put the tedious twat on ignore some years ago.

 

[MOzanne]

v naughty.

"But this Orange sash brings out the colour in my eyes......"