Originally Posted by
Bill Macgillivray
Two types of tree in the British Army and RAF REgiment - "Fir trees and bushy topped trees - a further sub-division of the bushy topped tree is a bush"!!
I will never forget this from my Corporal DI (and he was before the Regiment took over!)
Happy days (I think!) and fairly simple! It got more complex with time and promotion!!
Aah, the Bushy-topped Tree! I was talking to a FAC in Germany one sunny afternoon, when he advised me that the reference point was a bushy-topped tree. When I asked if he was “‘avin a larf”, he said “Just trust me”. Some 30 seconds down the attack run, I spied on the horizon, a HUGE tree on the top of a ridge, with the biggest bushy-top that I had ever seen. I was so amazed that I failed to hit the target!
Sorry for the drift,
Mog