If you thought an SLR was heavy, try carrying a GPMG with ammunition for a couple of weeks - puts hairs on your chest, but keeps the natives' heads down!
That or the 84mm MAW around. SLR was great and accurate however, a bugger to get out of a FV432 with in a hurry or scramble through mouseholes during FIBUA.
Anyone remember the days before green shirts were issued and we had to wear light blue shirts on exercise/gate guard. I remember a unit that a Scottish CO had insisted that ties were worn too.
Aaah and the experience of doing gate guard unarmed in No1s at BZN in the mid-80s (only 3 to man the gate) - not like the searchlane spectacular there is now.