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Odd Convoy

Thinking on some of the strictest security was at BT substations in remote areas. Still wonder what that was all about.

Theres some queer old bits of BT knocking around the place to be sure.

A couple of years back we were driving north near Catterick and spotted a queer convoy. Just spotted it mind. Two artics with transit van type mini busses front and back, all dark blue. A Volvo estate cop car half a mile back and another half a mile in front. We only spotted it because the two trailers were a bit weird. Very short but with very big tractors. Once you spotted those, you spotted the rest of the convoy.

Point is, the thing was almost camoflaged. No MoD police or obviously army vehicles. Wouldnt it make sense to camo nuke convoys like this? Regular commercial artics, put the hard lads in mini busses and have a regular commercial looking tow truck behind. A couple of cop cars attracts no attention.
 
I was a contractor. Never escorted anywhere, actually, that's a lie. One building in Burghfield had us escorted. I assume they weren't security cleared?

Thats alright once i managed to get signed in at St Athan i had no problems just wandering around most buildings the only one's i never went in either didnt look interesting or were locked but the SF Support Group stores were open to all and sundry so ner!

and just for red_squre to make you feel better ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
I was a contractor. Never escorted anywhere, actually, that's a lie. One building in Burghfield had us escorted. I assume they weren't security cleared?

Lad I work with worked at Aldermaston as a contractor, he had a hairy arsed MoD plod shadow him everywhere, even stood outside his stall in the shithouse.
 
Lad I work with worked at Aldermaston as a contractor, he had a hairy arsed MoD plod shadow him everywhere, even stood outside his stall in the shithouse.

We were escorted on our 1st day, then left to our own devices once the clearance had been confirmed.
 
Yes it was the MDP SEG, I was on it until March 2006 until promoted and am now in the Met. We intially had ford transits, then Merc sprinters and the ford Galaxies as traffic cars as well as the bikes. Good little job that.
 
So, spill the beans......what did you prof?


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Well i did need some storage boxes. As to whether they fell off the back of the lorry is another thing. Plus i did disappear with the roll out the shit house..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 
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Where's Pacman when you need him???
 
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on the m6 tonight i saw a line of landys, a a brace of bedfords, nuke convoy ?, no silly me, its the stabs, go get um boys,,,,,,,,,, how did i know it was stabs ?????????????? regs dont work at weekends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awaiting the in coming................................
 
on the m6 tonight i saw a line of landys, a a brace of bedfords, nuke convoy ?, no silly me, its the stabs, go get um boys,,,,,,,,,, how did i know it was stabs ?????????????? regs dont work at weekends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awaiting the in coming................................

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on the m6 tonight i saw a line of landys, a a brace of bedfords, nuke convoy ?, no silly me, its the stabs, go get um boys,,,,,,,,,, how did i know it was stabs ?????????????? regs dont work at weekends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awaiting the in coming................................

Regulars work every day of the week and don't expect a BBQ after every 2 hours.

Asides from the fact you witnessed this convoy on a Thursday evening, the STAB giveaway would have been a plethora of large misshapen berets, a trail of coke cans and the stench of despair from their PSIs.
 
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must of been a living history group,,,,,, no, regs,,,,,,, no,, bedfords,, err, go on, have a cup of t, go on go...................
 

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