Pull up a sandbag ~ "I remember when..
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From: backofbeyond
They have started issuing underpants again, except they are skintight ones that you're meant to be able to wear for a week under your desert kit - not that I've tried, despite being out on ops just now 
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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Beags. The disappearence of white dog poo is due to what dogs have in their diets these days.
The white doggy doo is mainly due to water evaporation leaving calcium behind. The inorganic components are left behind due to the organic bits being consumed in various ways.
Today's modern dogs don't eat anywhere near as much bone as they used to, including bone meal. Butchers just don't give them out any more. The BSE crisis was to blame for that. Today's much tighter regulations on dogs doing their business on our pavements means that droppings don't hang around for years in public places like they used to, giving them less opportunity to dry out and turn white.
The white doggy doo is mainly due to water evaporation leaving calcium behind. The inorganic components are left behind due to the organic bits being consumed in various ways.
Today's modern dogs don't eat anywhere near as much bone as they used to, including bone meal. Butchers just don't give them out any more. The BSE crisis was to blame for that. Today's much tighter regulations on dogs doing their business on our pavements means that droppings don't hang around for years in public places like they used to, giving them less opportunity to dry out and turn white.
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From: @exRAF_Al
Airborne;
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...puttees were issued, to be worn with with Boots, DMS
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Remember DMS high leg extensions, to look like NI patrol boots?
I remember when;
Leave passes were put firmly at the bottom of the in tray.
Keo was 19 cents a bottle.
'58 pattern webbing was still under trial (I don't actually, but I thought we were overdue some creep).
We still had NAAFI shops.
A budget holder was a tatty red briefcase.
You still had a duty POL storeman sitting miserably in that little hut.
Combat Soldier 95 was still a twinkle in his dad's eye.
[QUOTE
...puttees were issued, to be worn with with Boots, DMS
[/QUOTE]
Remember DMS high leg extensions, to look like NI patrol boots?
I remember when;
Leave passes were put firmly at the bottom of the in tray.
Keo was 19 cents a bottle.
'58 pattern webbing was still under trial (I don't actually, but I thought we were overdue some creep).
We still had NAAFI shops.
A budget holder was a tatty red briefcase.
You still had a duty POL storeman sitting miserably in that little hut.
Combat Soldier 95 was still a twinkle in his dad's eye.
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From: Detroit MI
Wagon Wheels? What about Cadbury Creme Eggs?!
Ahhh... Pay parades... I always felt somewhat akin to a beggar... The right hand flatters with the snappy salute while the left edges forward in a surreptitious fashion while whispering " 'ere Guv, can you spare a tanner"
Talking of tanners... Octagonal threepences, big old pennies, ha'pennies, shillings, half crowns, crowns, ten shilling notes.
Finding a ten shilling note - buying three pints, ten No. 6 and a box of matches and still having one and six left over...
Hitching in uniform was one of the best though. In uniform I was home from Catterick in less than 5 hours guaranteed, (home was south of Oxford)... Out of uniform it wasn't worth going home for the weekend.
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From: @exRAF_Al
We talked about CC? On BCTS he rasped my name and I marched smartly forward and stamped my foot in.
"Corporal!" I bellowed.
"You f#cking ranker, he rasped.. "What have you done to deserve £88?"
I had had a tax rebate and blew it all in the Boot and Shoe when we were next let out.
Agree 100% about hitching. On the FT, I once got to H in about 8 hours.
"Corporal!" I bellowed.
"You f#cking ranker, he rasped.. "What have you done to deserve £88?"
I had had a tax rebate and blew it all in the Boot and Shoe when we were next let out.
Agree 100% about hitching. On the FT, I once got to H in about 8 hours.
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From: Station 42
RAF shirts had detachable collars and dhobi-ing was done in the Airmens Block sinks with 3" x 2" x 12" blocks of soap that would defy a woodworker's rasp. Manual bumpers to polish the billet floor. One individual sheet change per week. Yeah - those were the days...
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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Officers carried swagger sticks.
Officers wore hats in civvie so they could doff them to Mrs Sqn Ldr.
Batmen.
Sports afternoon.
The station commander was the only one with a staff car Standard Saloon.
The senior engineer was the Station Technical Officer, a sqn ldr.
Admin Wg was staffed by aircrew
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From: @exRAF_Al
Soprano gently chastised thus;
Alright, alright.. fair one, no one likes a smartarse. I did think I might get away with that one here. And come on, at least I didn't say, 'I remember when we didn't have ID cards, because we both knew each other.'.
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Spartan was a rank, not a tank.
AI R mate I think you mean Centurion, technically speaking a Spartan is just an APC!
Spartan was a rank, not a tank.
AI R mate I think you mean Centurion, technically speaking a Spartan is just an APC!