Originally Posted by
Green Flash
Recently a memorial to our local Regt has appeared in the town, showing a soldier stood at ease with an SLR. When the first automatic weapon you fired is now on a statue, one feels rather old ......
Cough.. cough.... semi automatic unless you had a packet of Swan Vesta's finest..
Didn't some senior officer in Cyprus or the like get up close and personal with a stock?
I remember the tale that he had asked to see a guards weapon on exercise on some pretext to see if it was clean etc and then charged him for handing it over, naturally this got around and he tried it again on another exercise and as he went to grab it, he met the stock coming the other way and copped a face full. It may have been folk law but it did the rounds..