Originally Posted by airborne_artist
ISTR that BAA were more than happy for the boys in green to patrol outside LHR soon after 9/11, despite the fact that a Scimitar CVR(T) would be a poor counter-terrorist weapons platform.
ISTR that they wanted the green uniforms, not the tracked black'n'green transport. The question was rapidly asked "Well what the hell did you expect them to turn up in?"
Originally Posted by airborne_artist
Many years ago my Squadron (green, not cavalry, not signals, so work it out..)
Engineers? AAC? RCT? RTR (they ain't cav!)?
I'm only joshing. Your handle gives it all away. As I am sure you well know
Edited to add: Your brethren of the "non Artist" type robbed us bleep types of our berets in Bos so they wouldn't look quite so conspicuous. Only thing is, they failed to recognise that us bleep types don't normally go around tooled up to the nines!