Originally Posted by
Justanopinion
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Trim stab forgot to mention
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TA Officer
after the ex para bit....
No shame in that eh trimstab?
Justanopinion,
Overly personal and not even very funny, old chap. Especially with the number of very, very capable TA personnel serving in sandy places right now
Now please play nicely otherwise I'll have to bore everyone with my Dad's war stories from when he was OC xx Para (TA) if only to point out the value of the part-timers in the military of old, let alone the emasculated one of today.
If you'd prefer, I could start a bit earlier .. perhaps from when he was a regular and the youngest subaltern / Adjutant in the Middle East, running around in hot and sandy places doing daring pongo things. And go from there?
No? thought not.
CS
Note: aviation content warning: I do have quite a number of his photographs from the 60s showing lots of perfectly servicable aircraft in the sky with rather a large number of idiots jumping out of them for no apparant reason. One day I'll get round to scanning them and posting somewhere on here.