Originally Posted by
BEagle
Ah, but PN, can you recall the 'duties of a sentry' still?
Were you, too, forced into horsehair and blanco'd belt and gaiters at school because there was no RAF section?
The Set Wireless No 38 Mk 3, Telephone F Mk 2, Set Wireless 88 etc. were my forte - bugger all that marching with Lee Enfield No 4 stuff!
No, we were an offensive lot. Leopard crawl, cake walk, life preserver etc.
We had more .303 ammo in the attic than a typical RAF Station - one day we counted up the ammo boxes. We had about 250 000 rounds of .303 ball. In the armoury we had at least a dozen Bren. For some reason we did not have any Sten guns.
We had an RAF section (bloody glider scared me sh1tless) but we had to do a year's square bashing first. Mutuals one on one with several others all screaming commands in pseudo trebles. And 5 years later doing exactly the same thing in a hangar at South Cerney
