Originally Posted by
airborne_artist
The Dark Blue has form on this. The famous TV celeb survivor is an honorary Commander RN.
He explains that he left the Artists Rifles following an injury sustained while parachuting.
He left because he was asked to go/sacked, ie SNLR. The injury was sustained while jumping as a civvie anyway.
Well the version I've been told (from an Irish guy who spent 15 years in the French Légion) is.....
That he simply fell off the back of an army truck when it started moving.