My son has curently completed 3 tours of afghanistan (1 with 45CDO and 2 with ASGRM), there are various ways to keep in touch with your loved one, the obvious is to write letters, the lads look forward to these and they can be a highlight when times are tough.

The lads also get 30 free minutes to ...

Stay Safe Dave

My Son is out there at the moment (you lot may know him as Beardo, he used the site a lot whilst in training at Lympstone), he's serving with RM ASG (Vikings)

He speaks very highly of the lads in CLR especially the Viking Support Group, and how they keep the wagons on the road.

Not ...

Mark...

Your giving the great city of Salford a bad name...

Not forgetting

Armoured Support Group RM

"The Bovvy Boys" though the active unit is relocating to RNAS Yeovilton at the moment....

"H"

Why are you quoting Stan Ridgeway songs......?

Have any of us broke opsec in this thread ???

Matt

ASC RM have taken up permanent residence in ganners, they have been there ever since the "Viking" was deployed.

My Lad is out there with them at the moment, and will deploy again in September when 3 cdo brigade take over from the Para's.

The Viking Lads are doing six on six off at the moment...

1 Rifles are attached to 3 cdo bde now and I believe they are based at Chepstow ?

Some of their lads will have done the all arms course, wont they ?

Well,

Two weeks on and we still have'nt heard anything from the "lad".

Still we understand all the reasons for this, the main one being that he is a thoughtless shit!! :evil: seriously though we know the job he's doing is important and that he must be very busy, what with Vikings being the ...

I forget to say, he is a Royal Marine..

Does that make a difference ?

Also just to add he hasnt posted on this site since he went to Ganners..

Hi all

This question may be a bit bone.., but please bear with me!!

My son went on his second tour to Ganners on December 4th, He is in the Armoured Support Squadron based a Bovington.

Question is, Is it normal to hear nothing from them, we have not heard a peep from him since he got there!!

On ...

Mardy

Hope things get better for you all, previous posters advice about talking to mates ect is a good one, though I would advise against Paroxetine (also known as seroxat).

One of it's side effects is to induce suicidal tendancies:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine

I would check the ...

This looks like a great promo for the Royals, can't wait to see it......

My son passed out with 903 Troop, this will give me a better idea of what he went through than what we seen on families day...

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Thanks, all for your views and advice.

Talked to my lad yesterday evening, and upon some reflection on his part, and a chat with his boss, he has decided to stick it out.

He sounds much happier now, apparently he can pick all sorts of courses to go on whilst on this duty, and also still gets to go ...

First of all i would like to say thanks, to everyone on this site, especially the moderators. I have been following these forums for the past year, i've found them to be a valuable source of information. once again many thanks.

Right advice please.......

My son recently passed out at CTCRM (very ...