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Bloke I work with now known as "Passion". Short for passion fingers - as in he f%cks everything he touches.
Being ex inf - anyone behind us (everyone except the SAS) was of course a REMF.
Battalion sigs were known colloquially as muppets - you needed to stick your hand up their @rse to get any work out of them.
Cooks were "turners" or "fitters and turners"
Knew an army nurse known as "the Apple". Good to the core - in this case the Corps of Staff Cadets.
Being ex inf - anyone behind us (everyone except the SAS) was of course a REMF.
Battalion sigs were known colloquially as muppets - you needed to stick your hand up their @rse to get any work out of them.
Cooks were "turners" or "fitters and turners"
Knew an army nurse known as "the Apple". Good to the core - in this case the Corps of Staff Cadets.
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I was told that the Head of Guildford Royal Grammar was once a Mr Fluck .............
nickname
NOEL
a good grammar school joke.
Anyone called Hunt was called Mike, regardless.
nickname
NOEL
a good grammar school joke.
Anyone called Hunt was called Mike, regardless.
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On a particularly dark night at Basra I was chatting to a mover and the subject of nick names came up. I mentioned we had a guy called Tomahawk... " you could see him coming but there was fxxx all you could do about it!" the mover replied.."thats funny I have a boss called Paveway!! we have go behind him re-building bridges"
I discovered, in an airline, that I was 'Uncle Albert'.
Didn't think I'd bored them that much with salty tales
Previously mentioned names I've come across: FIGJAM, Mike Kent, Shrek, Ajax, Tito (surname Marshal).
Didn't think I'd bored them that much with salty tales
Previously mentioned names I've come across: FIGJAM, Mike Kent, Shrek, Ajax, Tito (surname Marshal).
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Anyone called Hunt was called Mike,
Current Gp Capt, last name Hunt, first name Mark,
There's an ex Irish rugby league international called Wayne Kerr, he's a big lad so you probably wouldn't want to take the mickey
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WRAF officer known as Pineapple. Pal of mine was on a charge for insubordination. Particularly obnoxious WRAF officer had it in for him, he told her to her face that 'You need f...... with the rough end of a pineapple, ma'am'
Hence the charge and the name.
Hence the charge and the name.
A Puma Pilot was known as Oslo, Outer Space Liaison Officer. Same chap had a buttocks clenched together sort of gait. Puma crewmen, of a certain pedigree, would always carry a packet of Polo’s so that as he approached they could offer him one......”mint sir?”
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"Airbrakes" - described a certain young lady's regular weekend configuration (those of you familiar with Buccaneers will get the picture).
"Araldite" - same location as the lady mentioned above, but for different reasons, "For God's sake don't get talking to her, she sticks like glue."
"Wonderwoman", yet again, same location - an amazonian WRAF SNCO who delighted in taking healthy junior ranks home for the weekend, and delivering a bedraggled, worn out, but ultimately happy bag of bones back late on Sunday evenings.
"Jiff" - because he was a little squirt!
"Araldite" - same location as the lady mentioned above, but for different reasons, "For God's sake don't get talking to her, she sticks like glue."
"Wonderwoman", yet again, same location - an amazonian WRAF SNCO who delighted in taking healthy junior ranks home for the weekend, and delivering a bedraggled, worn out, but ultimately happy bag of bones back late on Sunday evenings.
"Jiff" - because he was a little squirt!
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"Saddo"
During a FI Det
a. His parents moved house without telling him where they had moved to.
b. His girlfriend ditched him 2 weeks into his 4 month det.
c. His girlfriend left a tap running and the freezer switched off (with the door open) in the flat they shared after she ditched him.
d. His car was wrecked when a mate (who was looking after it) 'borrowed' it.
During a FI Det
a. His parents moved house without telling him where they had moved to.
b. His girlfriend ditched him 2 weeks into his 4 month det.
c. His girlfriend left a tap running and the freezer switched off (with the door open) in the flat they shared after she ditched him.
d. His car was wrecked when a mate (who was looking after it) 'borrowed' it.
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Wyler - you will recognise this one:
Nickname: ISME
Surname: COCKIN
It's true I tell you! Now the proprieter of a rather fine pork producing company!
CB
Nickname: ISME
Surname: COCKIN
It's true I tell you! Now the proprieter of a rather fine pork producing company!
CB
There was a Cathay captain called "Biffa" - Big Ignorant F**ker From Australia.
Many years ago on the Phantom OCU at Coningsby there was a Flight Sergeant Gee, known to all and sundry as "Effy".
Flt Cdrs' office on 10 Sqn was known as Room 38DD because it was home to the two biggest t*ts on the Sqn.
Many years ago on the Phantom OCU at Coningsby there was a Flight Sergeant Gee, known to all and sundry as "Effy".
Flt Cdrs' office on 10 Sqn was known as Room 38DD because it was home to the two biggest t*ts on the Sqn.
no Justin or Tintin yet?
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