TACBE / SARBE

[4of10]

Does SAS/SBS still use SARBE 5 (which replaced TACBE but looks identical)?

If someone had a buckshee antenna to one, where would be a good place to sell it? I've heard of a few knackered TACBEs being legally sold as collectibles, some without antennae, but not recently.

If the mil still use these, it might be better to retain it as "buckshee stores"...

[4of10]

No worries.

It was purchased legally (with receipts - somewhere), not stores diffy. I believe SARBEs are also used on expeditions (eg: Arctic/Antarctic Pole type trips) and for civil aviation emergency kits. Different frequency to the military.



Sergeant McNab: "Hello, this is Bravo Two Zero. We're a ground callsign and we're in the sh*t."

Ranulph Fiennes: "What the f*ck do you expect me to do about that, I'm almost at the Pole and it'll take me years to turn back and ski all the way to Iraq..."

[Leigh Dowell]

I don't know who would buy a TACBE, the ones I used were genuine "line of sight" comms, as you had to see the person you wanted to talk to so you could throw the bloody thing at them to get their attention.
As to the legality of selling them, when they were taken out of service they were sent back to depot never to be seen again, I imagine spares might be knocking around but if someone has a pukka item I would keep it quiet as some other poor bastard probably got charged for losing it.

[sneaky beaky]

I think these days, you just use a mobile phone!!

One liner etc.

Sneaky

[Spooky]

Sergeant McNab: "Hello, this is Bravo Two Zero. We're a ground callsign and we're in the sh*t."

Ranulph Fiennes: "What the f*ck do you expect me to do about that, I'm almost at the Pole and it'll take me years to turn back and ski all the way to Iraq..."

what..?

[Jobag]

4of10 is on a different frequency to the rest of us

[oldie]

Told you he was a lunatic

[Doc]

4of10 what exactly does your sreenname stand for? are you a borg?

you also just seem to be posting for attention of what you think you know, be nice to know if you have any SF experience as you seem to speak at length on the subject. Shame none of it makes any sense and comes across very walter mitty-ish.

[oldie]

Doc Thank You, Ive been trying to say this for ages, Hes plainly a walt.
Im not the sharpest tool in the box but im in at the moment and shouldnt have to explain myself to a mitty lunatic who Iv noticed posting on the SF board.

[Doc]

Nah wucking forries Oldie.

I have tried to piece some aspects of his drivel together and I cant work out if he's in/out/was in for a bit/below 20/above 20 infact I cant work out anything accept he has alot of knowledge on alot of things but the knowledge and the things dont seem to connect

[oldie]

Quote 4of10.
On Milling

Only joking. If your teeth match on the bite, I'd have thought you'd be okay by simply gritting them. It's not worth losing teeth over - if you can pass with a guard then wear a guard, if you're heavy set. I would have been too lazy to bother.

His use of language such as I'd have thought and its not worth losing teeth over say it all I think.

When you are in para training its worth dying for.

Oh and this one too.

Quote 40f10

Is it a trick question or a typo? Didn't you mean "Reg PARA"?

No Para would ever call it Reg Para.

I rest my case and will never use this forum or another again because its too prone to frigging walts who wish they had joined.

Iv only just started using this site but if they are all like this then Id rather not bother.
Thanks to the mods, Oldie out.

[4of10]

Hes plainly a walt.
Im not the sharpest tool in the box but im in at the moment and shouldnt have to explain myself to a mitty lunatic who Iv noticed posting on the SF board.

Well since you're throwing around the insults like confetti, you should explain yourself. You need to explain yourself to me and other members here.

And after that, you should apologise.

[4of10]

Quote 4of10.
On Milling

Only joking. If your teeth match on the bite, I'd have thought you'd be okay by simply gritting them. It's not worth losing teeth over - if you can pass with a guard then wear a guard, if you're heavy set. I would have been too lazy to bother.

His use of language such as I'd have thought and its not worth losing teeth over say it all I think.

Cor blimey, guvnor, you've exposed me as a finking person what can read and rite, an' that's no word of a lie!

When you are in para training its worth dying for.

Not quite.

If you die, you don't pass, you mong! Give it a few years (if you ever do pass) and, in hindsight, you'd think differently if you ever had to do it again, not that failure would enter your mind.

The issue here is the use of the use of guards, not failing. I say again: "It's not worth losing teeth over - if you can pass with a guard then wear a guard" Personal choice.

Oh and this one too.

Quote 40f10

Is it a trick question or a typo? Didn't you mean "Reg PARA"?

No Para would ever call it Reg Para.

No, they'd tend to say just "Reg" as in "Regular". The original text was "Para Reg". It's "Para Regt". C'mon, maintain standards, people. By "Reg Para" I was referring to "Regular PARA". Did you know that there's Regular PARA and TA PARA? You don't know much, do you?! Your "Intel" (sic) isn't quite accurate, is it?!

I rest my case and will never use this forum or another again because its too prone to frigging walts who wish they had joined.

Iv only just started using this site but if they are all like this then Id rather not bother.
Thanks to the mods, Oldie out.

Good, let's see if you can keep your word. All that you've done so far is knock people of whom you know nothing - ill-advised. In one of your other "knowledgeable" self-righteous rantings, you've pointed out that my attendance of a law court wasn't in line with AB types - once again, you don't know much about real life soldiers.

And if I actually were a Walt, then so what?! Why are you so bothered? Soldiers are outnumbered by the Walts in society. If you were the warrior you wished you were, you wouldn't care about Walts, though you might share a laugh or two at their expense.

You've got some personality issues to deal with. Count to ten (Like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ) and calm down! Go on an anger management course and stop harassing people. I don't know what your problem is - that's your personal admin.

I may "transmit on a different frequency" but that's just me, when "in" and when "out". SF - me? I don't think so. Knowledgeable? Fat bloke down the pub has got a big book on army...

Don't always make sense? Fair enough. I get bored with cliquey postings. I get bored with machismo. No-one seems to know me here, otherwise they'd have surely picked up on some of the things I've written and IDed me.

Oh yes, I'm not a "borg" or a trekkie - didn't occur to me when I chose the ID!

Personality and a sense of humour count in this regiment. Once you've passed P Coy and have done your first Abex you're in, regardless of how you speak, read, write, etc. If you'd passed, you'd understand this. You're boring me (and others) because you don't substantiate (get a dictionary!) your opinion. And it's only an opinion on your part, because I'm a time-served Para. I don't know what you are, though. Frankly, I don't care.

Adios.

BTW, don't rest your case, you'll need it to take your stuff away when you're "RTUed" from Air Cadets...

[MRB]

Its Para Reg arsehole, Para reg airborne thrusters, you pussy i'll knock your teeth out. Meat and veg - Para reg.

"Once you've passed P Coy and have done your first Abex you're in, regardless of how you speak, read, write, etc." - What are you on about? Pass P-coy, do an exercise, and you're in! You mean you get your head kicked in.