I watched this weeks episode of "Shipmates" which featured the field gun trials.
Now when I participated in the Royal Tournament back in the seventies the field gun race between the FAA and Devonport was an amazing demonstration of supreme fitness, agility and mechanical expertise, that took a gun and limber over walls and across a zip wire all at break neck speed. Get it wrong and you got hurt not to mention loose the race.
Now all you have to do is pull the gun and limber across a parade ground. What's all that about then. Can someone out there please explain why the brilliance of the Navy at Ladysmith has been dumbed down.
And for those of you who think that the Navy is going soft, have a look at the field gun team C1900.
It is ! QED
