Originally Posted by
Dougie M
PN
"Trusting an officer with a machine gun". As Junior Officer of the Guard I was bo**ocked on my first duty for not wearing the "pin on" GSM on week one. Depending on currency one was offered the choice between the trusty rusty .38 revolver or the Sterling SMG. Being alone at night in an open top landie with a mesh cage over the top when checking the sangars out on the Sheikh Othman perimeter it was the Sterling every time.
SMG yes, but a Browning M2 Machine Gun or whatever they mounted on Land Rovers in those days! Sounds a lethal combination. As for the GSM, I was referring to the fact that the Captain, unless he had a previous qualifying appointment between 1962 and the day would not have been entitled on day one or indeed week one.