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Vehicle Mechanic
The guys in REME that fix all the vehicles in the Army. Now includes the old trade Vehicle Electrician. VMs are sub divided into two categories:
The Royal Engineers have Plant Ops who help REME VMs fix C type vhicles. The REME do not have C mechs. A mechs will fix armoured engineering eqipment at armoured engineer units
There is a big rivalry between A mechs and B mechs, A mechs accuse B mechs of squatting to piss and B mechs often reply"there aint no fucking tanks in civy street is there"