And then ask him if he's beaten the Hereford clock...

AA

Tee Hee ! (Walt's probably think it's a euphemism for personal gratification ?)

Everyone knows the boathouse is Chemstone / Desert Pink, like everything else on the inventory ! (New motto of the Regiment - Who Cares Who Wins By Strength and Guile ????) :}

Had a complete Walt in an airline I worked for. Cabin crew wallah.

Swore blind he was a Gulf War 1 hero. Listened to his stories with an internal smile.

Used all the right words straight from Andy McNab's books. Told me how he "tabbed" all the way from central Iraq to the Syrian border, fearful of being "slotted" at every turn and how he "slotted" several Iraquis in the back of a truck in order to be able to get past it.

Fortunately I'd read the same books that he had and I just thought "tosser" instead of the "WOW" he was hoping for. Naturally I was cautioned about talking about it for security reasons.

They're all over the place, beware!!

Doc C

:):)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...rnet/zxzxz.jpg

Gutsiest move I ever saw, Dude.

Walt alert - one of the satellite TV channels (History or somesuch) had an 'SAS Sunday' yesterday. Fascinating inside information about the Iranian Embassy siege, but a vast store of Walt-fodder....:suspect:

Tuesday 25th Nov 21.00 on C5 Five Online : Programme Description for Special Forces Heroes (Documentary) - about the siege of Mirbat. Sek/Tak Takavesi was injured in Iraq fairly recently working as a security contractor.

More on him here

Pah, Lyneham Lumpy bag? I once gave an Iraqi an aircraft chock (cornish pasty) from a Basrah horror bag, I'm still on the run for that particular war crime.
(Menshed, if you are still alive and reading this do you forgive me?)

Walt Alert - Walt Alert,

That story is so obviously totally fictional THS, come on now do you seriously expect us to believe that you actually supplied someone with something......................................utter bollox if you ask me :E

Airborne Artist
 

Some time back I watched two programmes about your old gang, one used veterans to tell the story of what they did (but don't think it was SAS soldiers story), and one episode had a veteran talking about a river ambush he carried out in Borneo, Indonesia or Malaya (can't remember). He was actually on the river bank as he told his story, which I thought was quite good (unless someone else knew why he was being filmed and had an old grudge to settle)

The other programme was hosted by Nick Frost, and featured (possibly) Peter Macaleese performing an abseil down the front of a building, during which he messed it up and broke off the guttering.
Got any ideas on either one?
The first was fairly educational, while the second (as with much of Nick Frost's work, was pretty comical.

AA,

And not one VC due to "D" notice, non war status of Oman in the heady days. Shabby.

I once kept the southern border of the US free from the hoardes of invading Mexicans. I was armed only with a six pack and three MRE's. I held my ground till the MRE's made me constipated and I had to leave.

I think I saw beag's trying to scale the fence, shot him in the arse with a BB gun.

Conned by a Walt!!!
 

In a west end pub waiting to see the football with a mate.

Old boy sits near us and 'somehow' mentions he was an ex RSM in the Argylls - fair enough. Being curious and up for a story we ask him where he'd been with them. Korea, Malaya etc etc...

Then he says he's a bit short of cash to get home - could we buy these 1st class stamps off of him so he can get back? He shows us 20 '1st class' stamps - says he wants £5 for them - bargain!

In the dingy pub he had pointed out what looked like a '1st' figure on the stamp - the next day we found that the figure was actually '1p'!

So the old bugger had sold us 20p worth of stamps for £5!!!

We were the donkey's that day...

Many moons ago having got bethrothed to my domestic manager I met her new step father, who my nagger in law was totally besotted with.

Bold as brass this fella starts on about how he was in the Paras during the Suez Crisis, driving his tank through Cairo??:confused:

Being a kind and gentle soul I said that that must have been amazing and ........when was that ?

1959:ugh:

My roast tatty at that point ejected itself out of my right nostril:eek:.

He is still with us blissfully unaware that all who know him know, as he walters away playing the guitar with Eric Clapton etc etc

Bless:ok:

CirrusF you state

True - and bear in mind army chef training is far harder than SAS selection. Nobody has yet passed the course.

Not true, in the early 70's I was on a freefall course (sports) at Netheravon, and as the base was Army Air Corps. We had to use their mess. I can distinctly remember passing one course several times the same day and a couple of times the next :E

He deserves credit
 

The Walt ex-SAS guy actually deserves a medal.

Seldom have I enjoyed a thread so much on Prune - 'ah I love the smell of cynicism in the morning'.

There is SO little back-biting on this thread - but there again, with the quality of the grub, it's only exercising Health and Safety at Work sops.

Sorry guys, I'm off out to spend my 2.5% VAT!

Wearing Medal Ribbons He Has Not Earned
 

Punk student on University Challenge is a dead ringer for Vyvyan from The Young Ones | Mail Online

"We informally advised the student concerned that it could be an offence to wear medals to which he was not entitled and he took our advice on board."

A mate's sister is a Walt magnet. She dragged a bunch of no hopers through his barbecue area, each telling increasingly unbelievable stories of derring do. Giving her the heads up was a waste of time, even after a number of them shot themselves in the foot and the relationships ended. Eventually one managed to latch on to her tighter than a limpet and she ended up marrying the creature. Needless to say, things are not going well and the creature's alligator mouth has managed to get him into a position from which his chipmunk brain is unable to extract him. She is not impressed....

SAS imposter rumbled
 

As an aged loonnng time lurker and participator, I must thank the group for this thread.
Someone told me 15 years ago that the last 'character' had officially left the RAF. It looks as if reports of his/her departure have been wildly exaggerated.
There is one left!!

Just nipping back to say that I never met Douglas Bader, but I did meet Kenneth Moore, so that's pretty close isn't it?

After the comments about chefs, in serious mode for once, I went to the PRO in Kew to look up stuff about my Dad who was in Burma etc during WW2.

It was interesting reading the Squadron records and seeing that whenever the airfield was moved, among the first people at the new location were a bunch of chefs and kitchen hands.

I asked Dad about this and he said that when the bulk of the chaps arrived if there wasn't some wad and cha available there would have been a riot. :}

Biggest Walt I ever knew I first met on my first day at Grammar School. He was rebuked in front of the school for forging his school report. His brother was in my class and, over the next few years we heard stories of rapid progress as an RAF pilot, eventually flying Sabres in Germany.

Occasionally I used to see him in uniform , cycling through the town. I did think that was a bit odd.

A few years later, I picked up a Telegraph and read about his trial - charged with impersonating an officer. Apparently the thing that caught him out was the Croix de Guerre and DFC medals he wore. He claimed he won them in the Suez crisis.

I gather that he had gone into the RAF for National Service, failed the aircrew selection and been afraid to tell his father who was a retired Winco. He started lying and just couldn't stop. He bought the uniform in a second hand shop and might have got away with it if he had removed the medals.

Usual level of US target recognition, eh Westie.

What did you mistake me for? A Hind, some Canadians, a Warrior? Or was it an Iranian Airbus?

Or Farnborough, perhaps?

Have you heard the one about the ship and the lighthouse?