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[stacker1]

You’ll have @stacker1 on here banging on about having to wear cam cream on exercise next...

To clarify I said why wear it on tech exercises, apparently its so soldiers can have the martial mindset.

 

[The Assassin]

Odd one to my non airborne mind. Why does he have is wings on his stripes, yet his mate has them on the shoulder? Taken 18 days before D Day apparently .

Am I seeing this right, but are his magazines empty?

 

[Lardbeast]

between the hand guard and the mag well - also serve as the hooks that hold the bipod in place while folded

Lip of the bipod wire cutter also works.

 

[Berlin_104s]

Absolutely. You wouldn’t want that to give away a whole column of clanking gun limbers and braying donkeys

You’ll have @stacker1 on here banging on about having to wear cam cream on exercise next...


Anyway I thought wristwatches were a rarity pre WWI?

They were, it was the first unpleasantness which saw them come into common usage.

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[ugly]

Am I seeing this right, but are his magazines empty?

Exercise before the invasion

 

[Cold_Collation]

Exercise before the invasion

A better idea is a few gentle stretches... save your energy.

 

[Bodenplatte]

Am I seeing this right, but are his magazines empty?

He’s explaining to HM that he’s just wiped out the Free French Parachute Company

 

[Berlin_104s]

I think this is Ally,

Leading the men and donkeys through the Kyber Pass carrying a swagger stick while smoking a pipe.

Come on then you Afgahni tribesmen, fcuking bring it on.



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That's quality!! One of my lecturers in college during the early 80s began his military career as a subaltern in the Mountain Gunners. He started on the NW Frontier and then moved to Burma / Malaya. He transferred to the RA on the Partition of India in 1947, and finished his time as an RAEC Instructor Officer in BAOR. A cracking bloke with a vast store of interesting dits.

ETA: he used to smoke the most rank-smelling cigars!!

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[Oyibo]

Exercise before the invasion

Another one from the same visit:

 

[Fang_Farrier]

The children of Orkney MP Neven-Spence.

Note the Parachute Regiment shoulder flash, the Pegasus and the Airborne badge as well as the wings.

 

[Gardner6LXB]

Another one from the same visit:

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.....airnd what do you dooo?

 

[Ortholith]

.....airnd what do you dooo?

I'm a tree ma'am.

 

[br9mp812]

To clarify I said why wear it on tech exercises, apparently its so soldiers can have the martial mindset.

is that why UAV 'aircrew' wear growbags?, i guessed that they were just knobs

 

[Bodenplatte]

I have to admit, I'm a big fan of Kipling. Right words, right sentiments, at the right time - and I believe very perceptive of the lot of Tommy Atkins of the time.

You can sing Screw Guns to the tune of the Eton Boating Song.

 

[bob_the_bomb]

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The children of Orkney MP Neven-Spence.

Note the Parachute Regiment shoulder flash, the Pegasus and the Airborne badge as well as the wings.

Note also the twist of shoulders to get them in the picture

 

[The Assassin]

I'm a tree ma'am.

Marvellous, and when do you expect to bear fruit?

 

[Condottiere]

Marvellous, and when do you expect to bear fruit?

When Gloria climbs up on me shoulders, Ma'am,

 

[Dan Gleebles]

Note also the twist of shoulders to get them in the picture

A tradition which endures to this day.

 

[chimera]

A tradition which endures to this day.

Which neatly brings us back to the title of the thread: 'cos it's ally!

 

[FourZeroCharlie]

Another one from the same visit:

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I'm sorry, but British officers should be banned in perpetuity from wearing berets.