Originally Posted by
ORAC
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Which leads back to hats and rank tabs - which at Staxton Wold, as soon as we got to any alert state, we were told to remove, because snipers would automatically go for the officers….
Which is why, when acting as visiting DISTAFF, I advised the Stn Cdr that driving around in his "shiny black" with pennant flying would also be a sniper magnet. I was pleased to see on my next visit that he was using a shaggy old SWB Land-rover!