digitalfreefall wrote:SBS RIBS

Lol. Gemini ? Searider ?
How old is that info ?
The lad should do a few years of bumps and scrapes first, then get a proper heads up. Idiot.

Artist wrote:The Coxswain of the LCVP won a five hundred pound bet!

Also got a severe bollocking but what the Heck! Bootnecks are like that.

Artist

LOL. Good effort. Typical LC.

HCR, I reckon anyone is welcome here, Bootnecks are a friendly bunch. But I'm curious as to why you came. What's your service history ? Just a general outline.

LOL. I was waiting for that one !
It was actually twenty metres the wrong side of a chainlink fence (which incidentally was almost falling over) which served as the "border".
Too many pongo patrols to list that have wandered into the South in NI, and getting disarmed and arrested by the Gardai.

Yeah right, you keep thinking that Perce.

I lost my long service and good conduct badge after an incident in Helensburgh circa 1991. It ruined my life

Dutchy wagon still at CTC ? From what I've heard recently I'm surprised there isn't a Starbucks and a Pret a f@#k Manger there as well.

Bless 'em. I love the way pongos have no dignity.

Rover wrote:Commachio?

Nothing to do with Lake Comacchio in Italy then?

Rover

Yeah right. It's my Mum's maiden name.
Wimborne. I seem to remember "Wendy", the PTI gobbing off at those ASBO kids on telly living there. (He used to be LC). Know him ?

Fair one. Apologies. My point, albeit made flippantly, was that green ops are and have been for a few years, the primary role. I was badged in 1991, and in the subsequent five years, only a few dived operationally.

Hang in there mate. 22 years from now it'll all seem like a sweet, wonderful dream.

I remember turning up at "Commando Halt" four weeks before summer leave. That was enough time to get us in the mindset, but three weeks leave was also plenty of time to let us strut around our various hometowns wearing the t-shirts and getting civvyfied again ( is that a word ? It is now ! ).
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It took me a year and a week to pass out. Burgeoning stress fractures culminating in in a collapse at the start of the endurance. One weeks sick leave.Many weeks in Chosin Troop followed by Hunter, then did the tests again. Did another twelve years, and work in Iraq in psd (on leave till March), but ...

I was going to reply at length, but as my dinner is ready and the SBS do not seem to do "water" these days, I will reserve my comments for a time when I haven't had too many B & C's. That way, I can really let my thoughts flow!
Sneaky
Had enough B & C's yet ? Unless you spent your 23 years as a ...