Not a good week for Generals of the Modern British Army

[Sexton Blake]

Somebody explain to me how this is not thread drift?

Allow me.

The post above has invoked the SLR gambit, or indeed stratagem, which binds us all together from the highest General (who has most likely fired it, probably) to the lowliest currently serving Pte who can only dream of handling such awesomeness; the weapon that won the Cold War on its own without even having to fire a single shot.

Thread drift cannot occur if you mention THAT rifle. It is the single most unifying object in the universe.

 

[Just_plain_you]

Allow me.

The post above has invoked the SLR gambit, or indeed stratagem, which binds us all together from the highest General (who has most likely fired it, probably) to the lowliest currently serving Pte who can only dream of handling such awesomeness; the weapon that won the Cold War on its own without even having to fire a single shot.

Thread drift cannot occur if you mention THAT rifle. It is the single most unifying object in the universe.

It also means you are over fifty which puts you in the don't trust a fart / never waste an erection/ young people today don't know how good they've got it demographic...

 

[Richard_Hannay]

Also a stint with the Gloucester's and the Rifle Brigade - golly he moved around!

Sure about the link with the Glooms? He had an ex-Gloom as an ADC once, but never heard of him serving with them.

 

[Filthy_contract]

No MILAN or Interpreterships?

I was in the RAF. AFAIK we didn't use MILAN, but I've been there, if that helps.

 

[Berlin_104s]

The Red Book was ORs only. Offrs would write their own CVs.

Speaking as a retired OR, I write my own CVs as does every other retired OR that I know!! No civilian employer has shown the slightest interest in the pen picture that my last CO (Cheshires) wrote for me, although he did say lots of nice things and even managed to work the word 'polymath' into it.

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[Berlin_104s]

Allow me.

The post above has invoked the SLR gambit, or indeed stratagem, which binds us all together from the highest General (who has most likely fired it, probably) to the lowliest currently serving Pte who can only dream of handling such awesomeness; the weapon that won the Cold War on its own without even having to fire a single shot.

Thread drift cannot occur if you mention THAT rifle. It is the single most unifying object in the universe.

It hasn't drifted far enough yet in that the allyness of '58 Pattern belts has yet to be discussed.

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[Queensman]

The Red Book was ORs only. Offrs would write their own CVs.

See some previous coverage on here of this dull subject:

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/testimonial-of-service-afb-108.168836/

 

[Portree Kid]

It hasn't drifted far enough yet in that the allyness of '58 Pattern belts has yet to be discussed.

Awwww man

I was just about to post a dit about 58 pattern Larry Largepacks and a Bde Comd

 

[pimpernel]

Sure about the link with the Glooms? He had an ex-Gloom as an ADC once, but never heard of him serving with them.

Michael Rose (British Army officer)

General Sir Hugh Michael Rose KCB, CBE, DSO, QGM (born 1940 in what was then British India), often known as Mike Rose, is a retired British Army General. As well as commanding 22 Special Air Service Regiment, he was Commander UNPROFOR Bosnia in 1994 during the Yugoslav Wars. The stepson of...

military.wikia.org

It's in the Military Wiki, so got to be right. It might well have been when he was at University!
His step father wrote 'Bugles and a Tiger' and was I think a Gurkha so surprised he didn't bag them as well.

The stepson of British author John Masters, Rose was educated at Cheltenham College, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1959, and transferred to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) in 1962. He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1964.

 

[pimpernel]

Nor with mine. Does list that I qualified with the L9 Browning HP, SLR and SMG. Which makes me a demigod.

I prostrate myself before you, might I arise - Sir Please!

 

[Just passing by]

Bloody hell! I just banged out 22 years with the Signals.... I was unaware of the "pick and mix" option.... they kept that bloody quiet.

Oh shit, I read that as "I just banged a 22 year old in the Signals" Taxi.....Specsavers.......!!!

 

[twentyfirstoffoot]

That’s not true. Some companies have a policy of not giving references, others don’t. It’s perfectly allowable to both ask for and give a detailed reference.

I think you are confusing what is permitted in law and what actually happens in practice.

In any case a certificate of service is unlikely to answer the right questions.

 

[Queensman]

Anyway, onn the subject of dodgy Generals PM wants a new defence chief

I fear that the PM is not alone!

 

[twentyfirstoffoot]

I fear that the PM is not alone!

Already a thread running on it under "Get Carter"

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Speaking as a retired OR, I write my own CVs as does every other retired OR that I know!! No civilian employer has shown the slightest interest in the pen picture that my last CO (Cheshires) wrote for me, although he did say lots of nice things and even managed to work the word 'polymath' into it.

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That's because writing "know it all" would have been rude.

 

[Berlin_104s]

That's because writing "know it all" would have been rude.

Hush now!!

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[vvaannmmaann]

Hush now!!

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None intended.

 

[9.414]

Cardboard - on discharge from T&AVR late 1973.
Red hardback - on discharge from the ranks (and appointment to commission). Regular Army, mid 1974. I think the latter bears words - rubber stamped - to that effect. I've always assumed everybody on SMC 5 got one.

That brings back memories! I was SMC7 and got a red book too in 1975. I had a TAVR white cardboard one too.

Long gone, along with hair and some teeth!

 

[pimpernel]

That brings back memories! I was SMC7 and got a red book too in 1975. I had a TAVR white cardboard one too.

Long gone, along with hair and some teeth!

I got my red book and I was SMC 14, its tucked away in a box with my dads.

 

[06FA56Paderborn]

I got my red book SMC 20 in 79, somewhere in the attic, my son got nothing on commissioning in 2014.