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Ralf,
About 30 seconds old fella
and thats only cos I would be so sh!t scared they would have to ask me twice
Anyway why take a kickin when, as you and so many others in here have ponited I am just a tea boy so what the f@ck do I know that's so important
My phobia has also precluded me from completeing the STAS traiinng during my time on rotary. I could just manage to hold it together for the conventional dunker run but when the hairy ar@ed diver pinned me under water, upside down against the poolside wall I just freaked
Missis L cant stand spiders, she literally runs away from them yet I can happily pick them up and deposit them outside. I guess we all have something that makes us shiver and mine just happens to be dark enclosed spaces.
So all Roger rag Head has to do is turn out the light and run the tap and this will shortly be followed by an awful smell
all spelling mstakes are "df" alcohol induced
About 30 seconds old fella
and thats only cos I would be so sh!t scared they would have to ask me twice Anyway why take a kickin when, as you and so many others in here have ponited I am just a tea boy so what the f@ck do I know that's so important My phobia has also precluded me from completeing the STAS traiinng during my time on rotary. I could just manage to hold it together for the conventional dunker run but when the hairy ar@ed diver pinned me under water, upside down against the poolside wall I just freaked
Missis L cant stand spiders, she literally runs away from them yet I can happily pick them up and deposit them outside. I guess we all have something that makes us shiver and mine just happens to be dark enclosed spaces.So all Roger rag Head has to do is turn out the light and run the tap and this will shortly be followed by an awful smell
all spelling mstakes are "df" alcohol induced
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Only CS. Lucky sods. I had my 30 0dd CS sessions but the very first session was the REAL thing.
I can't remember all the gases we had but they were NOT simulated. The rock had this little selection of glass rods, like a thermometer, and broke them to let us try mustard, cyanide etc. As I say I can't remember exactly what and the doses were allegedly harmless.
I also remember all the requests for the Porton volunteers. Odd the court case collapsed for lack of evidence.
On a different tact, we had to pratise bleeding with the 'new' torso harness for the F4. At Luffenham we were strapped to a 4 ton truck and dragged at 20-30 mph across the grass on our backs. The ground was undulating and full of snow. Every bump we got a load of snow down the nexk of the goon suit.
That complete the instructor then demonstrated a next drag, face down, back the way we came. Every snow drift there were great sprays of snow. At the end of the run we stopped and he said OK, whose first. We all said NO WAY.
But you can't go to Mountbatten unless you pass this. Bollocks they are not going to chop an entire F4 course because we refuse to be dragged on our faces.
We won.
Course the problem with CS and the respirator drills is that is does not work. Decontam that is.
Yes the respirator works. Yes blowing out after you have put it on works BUT CS is a chemical particle irritant and NOT a gas. It is not affected by fullers earth so all you do pratting about with the fullers is to prolong the agony.
I can't remember all the gases we had but they were NOT simulated. The rock had this little selection of glass rods, like a thermometer, and broke them to let us try mustard, cyanide etc. As I say I can't remember exactly what and the doses were allegedly harmless.
I also remember all the requests for the Porton volunteers. Odd the court case collapsed for lack of evidence.
On a different tact, we had to pratise bleeding with the 'new' torso harness for the F4. At Luffenham we were strapped to a 4 ton truck and dragged at 20-30 mph across the grass on our backs. The ground was undulating and full of snow. Every bump we got a load of snow down the nexk of the goon suit.
That complete the instructor then demonstrated a next drag, face down, back the way we came. Every snow drift there were great sprays of snow. At the end of the run we stopped and he said OK, whose first. We all said NO WAY.
But you can't go to Mountbatten unless you pass this. Bollocks they are not going to chop an entire F4 course because we refuse to be dragged on our faces.
We won.
Course the problem with CS and the respirator drills is that is does not work. Decontam that is.
Yes the respirator works. Yes blowing out after you have put it on works BUT CS is a chemical particle irritant and NOT a gas. It is not affected by fullers earth so all you do pratting about with the fullers is to prolong the agony.
Ah yes, the infamous airfield drag. I recall that we did that before the Bucc course in somewhat grass-stained goon suits. On our fronts. Bit of a laugh, to be honest and nothing to be worried about. Then we did the same thing down at Mountbatten behind a MCU pinnace (we could afford a Marine Branch back then). Getting an English Channel enema was less fun, but those infernal fingertip-nipping Koch fasteners with their little locking pins were a real pain!
Back to the CS thing - I always found that if you were in a group which didn't moan at the Rocks and just got on with it, there was no problem and the Rocks were less likely to stoke up their horrid Zyklon B cooker in the respirator test facility. Generating mushroom clouds of Fuller's Earth and bantering with the bug.gers helped as well. Yes it was an annual pain in the ar$e but at least it had a point. Unlike that stupid Fitness Test bolleaux!
Then there was the tale of sqn exchange officer who agreed to go along with the ODT/CCS/GDT thing with his mates. Until he came to the CS session. "Nein", he said "I operate ze chamber, I do not go in it!"
Back to the CS thing - I always found that if you were in a group which didn't moan at the Rocks and just got on with it, there was no problem and the Rocks were less likely to stoke up their horrid Zyklon B cooker in the respirator test facility. Generating mushroom clouds of Fuller's Earth and bantering with the bug.gers helped as well. Yes it was an annual pain in the ar$e but at least it had a point. Unlike that stupid Fitness Test bolleaux!
Then there was the tale of sqn exchange officer who agreed to go along with the ODT/CCS/GDT thing with his mates. Until he came to the CS session. "Nein", he said "I operate ze chamber, I do not go in it!"
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New S10 test
Rivetjoint....there is a new respirator functional test. Basically you stand in a "tent-like" cubicle and your S10 is tested by connection to a laptop. The software measures minute quantities of smoke (produced by "tea-light" candles) and compares the inside of the respirator with the outside. Completely non-stressful for the wearer, takes about 10 mins. It is a superb test of the fit and functionality of the kit....I found it a real confidence booster. Still have to do the drills though......
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I was one of the few that went largely unaffected by CS much to the rockapes anger.
I remember the chamber at Swinderby.
I was last to do the name, rank and number bit.
The rockape was spluttering as he asked me where I was from.
I answered 'the west of Ireland, Staff!'
'you b@stards are immune to this stuff - get out of my sight!'
I remember the chamber at Swinderby.
I was last to do the name, rank and number bit.
The rockape was spluttering as he asked me where I was from.
I answered 'the west of Ireland, Staff!'
'you b@stards are immune to this stuff - get out of my sight!'
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Ahhhh Swinderby.
Yep, all the usual name rank and number bit, but the rock in charge of our drill also added “What trade”?
Poor guy in front of me answered “Musician, Staff”.
“Musician? Give us a song then!”
Wouldn’t let the poor young lad out until he had knocked out the first verse of HRHs’ fave birthday tune!
Yep, all the usual name rank and number bit, but the rock in charge of our drill also added “What trade”?
Poor guy in front of me answered “Musician, Staff”.
“Musician? Give us a song then!”
Wouldn’t let the poor young lad out until he had knocked out the first verse of HRHs’ fave birthday tune!
ML
Imagine what happened then to the chap a few in front of me who answered “Policeman Staff” to the same question!!!
I’d learnt a very quick lesson by the time he got to me, having seen first chap sent to the back of the line - minus his S6!
“Driver Staff” says I, to the quizzical looks of my fellow trainees around me who knew different.
Mind you one of them grassed on me to the Regt staff and the next time round I got the full treatment.
Imagine what happened then to the chap a few in front of me who answered “Policeman Staff” to the same question!!!
I’d learnt a very quick lesson by the time he got to me, having seen first chap sent to the back of the line - minus his S6!
“Driver Staff” says I, to the quizzical looks of my fellow trainees around me who knew different.
Mind you one of them grassed on me to the Regt staff and the next time round I got the full treatment.
