kit maintenance

[Jonny]

I join CTCRM on the 15 April and was looking at some of the forms my careers office gave me. It suggests getting some washing and ironing prcatice in before i go which is fair enough. However is all clothing washed by hand in sinks as was done durring the PRMC.

[John_D]

when you pack a burgen there isn,t much room left for a washing machine and dryer,plus the fact there are no power point in the deserts,on mountain tops ,or on the snowey peaks,it is essensial that you know how to keep you clothes clean "and well rinsed" other-wise you start carrying the extra load
"crabs,dobby rash" that is when you can lose friends, dont worry about the soft hands they will soon harden up again.

AyeJohn_D

[Argonaught]

you do have to hand wash your kit for the first two weeks, after that you are allowed to use the washing machines if you want to.
Its just a case of knowing how to really and then they let you get on with it.

[Yorkie Malone]

And I still thought that the DL marched them down to the River Exe and made them do thier dhobie there.

Well my wife still goes down to the River Lumburn and has her favourite stone to beat the dhobie on.

SyY

[harry hackedoff]

Owdun,
your generation never had to cope with the two things that are the bane of Arctic Warfare,
No1 The Immeadiate Action Drill on the Peak Mk1
No2 Tilley Pumper`s Thumb



yours, Aye


Harry(take cover) Flaming-hands

[JR]

Now that was back in the good "Old " days,When the Green Beret was "Bullet Proof"?????

[harry hackedoff]

Guys that all changed with the introduction of Kevlar,
our old WW11 Navy pots cost knack-all, so Pusser didn`t care if we used them or not. The introduction of the Kevlar lid, costing well over a ton, changed things. Pusser thought" I`ve paid for it, so they will wear it.`
Look at the phots in Globe and Buster, the lads now wear them in the N.A.A.F.I., for Christ`s sake! Bollocks to morale
Makes I very angry, indeed


yours, even more,


Hackedoff

[JR]

Ah Owdun,The Days when the LPC (Leather Personel Carrier) was the prime mover,the first field dressing the first aid kit,The french letter to stop the leeches getting at the private Parts??,or over the Muzzle of the rifle,and SV Boot, BM Lever and KD Short, the name to obtain from various merchants, Goods????.When a posting Abroad was 2 and a half years,3 if you were unlucky.when the ITC was the Infantry Training centre,and you could always rely on some 3 Badge Marine to Nick the local Double decker bus from the Exmouth Bus Depot, to get back to Lympstone late at night??.And what ever happened to the "Blue Pig" that lamp swinging palace the old soldiers delight. Happy Memories.Aye JR

[harry hackedoff]

mind your head on that lamp

Harry

[ratso]

The only media picture of me in the Falklands is of the BARV coming ashore, how many out of twelve Marines are wearing tin? One the squadron Captain. Like they say make the head bigger it makes for a better target.
I once got some real shit from a pongo colonel for taking my cadets on a FIBUA exercise in that lovely German village they built just as the wall came down. He went mad nearly cost him his exercise as my lads made up more than half his enemy, and I had to be held back from hitting him. He afterwards got demoted and I got a lettter from some bloke called De-Villier, seems a nice chap.
I have tried kevlar still feels heavier than the tinnies and looks like a piece of kit out of an Action Man box. No glad I never had to go through the you will process, well sorry we were told to going ashore by our Captain, did we listen....the picture tells that story...

[JR]

Owdun,Now that brought back some memories,I served with Hiram Potts in A Troop 40 Commando In the federated Malay States 50/51,Now there's one officer the lads would follow down the barrel of a gun,His favourite pastime when in a vehicle convoy was to shoot the porcelain insulators on the telegraph poles on the road from Grik To Kuala Kangsar,ah happy days,God Bless you Hiram where ever you are,probably swinging from the light fittings in some posh Hotel.
Aye jr