Taxi for CGS?
A friend was on the ground in GW1 so I only have the tale to tell 2nd hand .... but with no reason to doubt it!
In the run-up to the re-entry into Kuwait City, a Sea King Mk 4 went U/S very near the Front Line. Mate + 2 were dispatched in a Landrover with replacement bit and tools to effect a repair at the site. They headed North towards KC before planning to turn off left into the desert to find said Sick Budgie and do their "Florence Nightingale" routine. Sadly, while the trio were well-versed in the art of navigation around the pubs of Somerset, their desert map-reading skills in the dark were, shall we say, not quite so finely honed!
As dawn suddenly started to break, the team slowly started to realise that, of Coalition Forces, there seemed to be none about ....... but there were a considerable number of dodgy-looking people/vehicles heading rapidly South. All 3 reached this conclusion simultaneously at which point, the Landy did a swift 180 and the trio tried to will themselves to look like Iraqis and blend in with the hordes heading South!!! Before too long, they found themselves on their own again - but were now worried that Coalition Forces might take their vehicle to be some form of Iraqi Kamikaze mission.
Fortunately, just then, the designated turn-off point was spotted (a lame Camel beside 2 Palm Trees and a burned-out Tank or something like that) and they turned right and, sure enough, several dunes on, a sick SK4 was spotted. Repair effected PDQ, everyone shipped out to somewhere a bit less exposed!!! His "unoffical" claim to fame is that he suspects his Team were actually the first Coalition Forces back in KC!!!! All be it a day early!!!!
In the run-up to the re-entry into Kuwait City, a Sea King Mk 4 went U/S very near the Front Line. Mate + 2 were dispatched in a Landrover with replacement bit and tools to effect a repair at the site. They headed North towards KC before planning to turn off left into the desert to find said Sick Budgie and do their "Florence Nightingale" routine. Sadly, while the trio were well-versed in the art of navigation around the pubs of Somerset, their desert map-reading skills in the dark were, shall we say, not quite so finely honed!
As dawn suddenly started to break, the team slowly started to realise that, of Coalition Forces, there seemed to be none about ....... but there were a considerable number of dodgy-looking people/vehicles heading rapidly South. All 3 reached this conclusion simultaneously at which point, the Landy did a swift 180 and the trio tried to will themselves to look like Iraqis and blend in with the hordes heading South!!! Before too long, they found themselves on their own again - but were now worried that Coalition Forces might take their vehicle to be some form of Iraqi Kamikaze mission.
Fortunately, just then, the designated turn-off point was spotted (a lame Camel beside 2 Palm Trees and a burned-out Tank or something like that) and they turned right and, sure enough, several dunes on, a sick SK4 was spotted. Repair effected PDQ, everyone shipped out to somewhere a bit less exposed!!! His "unoffical" claim to fame is that he suspects his Team were actually the first Coalition Forces back in KC!!!! All be it a day early!!!!
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As for crossing the border in NI - always amusing when the OC bollocks everyone for infringing it, promises trouble for the next offender and then does it himself
Gave me the chance for a cheap shot when I was dined out, saying: : "I flew with SRAFONI when he very nearly became SRAFOSI"
Well, maybe you had to be there with lots of drink consumed.......
Well, maybe you had to be there with lots of drink consumed.......
Of course not, and sometimes drink is a good anaesthetic when the distinctly unjocular and unpopular departer has consulted the paperback "Jokes for after dinner speeches", 1974 edition.
One way of enduring it is to hold one's breath for, say, a minute, then extend it after a deep breath to 1.15, repeat, 1.30 and possibly lose consciousness.
Good also for sermons which exceed the 12 minute rule.
One way of enduring it is to hold one's breath for, say, a minute, then extend it after a deep breath to 1.15, repeat, 1.30 and possibly lose consciousness.
Good also for sermons which exceed the 12 minute rule.
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And don't forget alcohol is a good detector of Covid 19 amongst you all, instructions below
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Surely that would be “Jokes for conceding defeat speeches”, 2020 edition, Two’s in....... or should that read One in, One out... 
At JHQ in 1996 it felt like none in, all out. Massive number of departures. Never did get to tell the joke.
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That’s what happens if you let the Navy exchange pilot navigate over land.
Found on Twitter:
"You're going to be flying rubber dog $hit out of Yeovil !"
https://twitter.com/ex_owls/status/1327179571003879424
"You're going to be flying rubber dog $hit out of Yeovil !"
https://twitter.com/ex_owls/status/1327179571003879424
