Armed Forces Past and Present

[Guest]

I was checking out the flora and fawna sorry for the bad spelling.

scott

[Guest]

12 years Royal Engineers, doing all kinds of crappy jobs and some good ones, i loved blowing things up , spent my last 3 years in a strat reserves squadron always on 48 hours standby, spent some time in the Falklands and then the police for 10 years

Paul

[john i am]

Great respect to all those who served in the forces land sea and air top people but having done two weeks in the cubs when I was a small boy it soon became apparent that I didn't like orders and being told what to do and until very recently I was self employed all my working life but now I have a boss and I've managed 9 mths without telling him to stick his job but to be fair you are pretty much left to get on with the job unless of course you mess up so far I've managed to keep under the radar long may it continue

[Dave W]

did they not tell you its unsafe to lay in the road when taking up a sniping position lolmobear

Now there's a bit of forces humour!.Say something like that to someone who's not served and 9 times out of ten they will get up set and come over all prescious!.The Piss Taking humour has stayed with me all these years.Surprised my nose is still straight!.

[Guest]

Now there's a bit of forces humour!.Say something like that to someone who's not served and 9 times out of ten they will get up set and come over all prescious!.The Piss Taking humour has stayed with me all these years.Surprised my nose is still straight!.

You are right there Dave I did a very short stint in the RAF Regiment reserves but had to leave as couldn't give the commitment it needed. The work I was doing at the time meant I couldn't make the weekly meets etc etc.

The humour side though goes back a lot further than that as my father was in the army and I guess the humour rubs off on the kids as well. Even now I can say things in a jokey way and those who have not been around the forces don't get it.

[Guest]

I was the last of the "call up" conscription. 18 years old 3 years to go before they abolished conscription.

Made it on further education course and so deferred. If I had to I would have joined the RAF but on a 3 year voluntary. Why because they played a lot of cricket whereas in the conscription group no time for sport.

Laurie

[rickoshea52]

I did 14 years as a rigger in the RAF on Nimrods, Pumas and Sea Kings with some time spent in component and sheet metal shops. The best was two tours at Kinloss and two years in Northern Ireland with a four month det to Saudi Arabia where the max daytime temperature was never below 50c and a four week det to Florida which was mostly spent on the pi$$.

I hated Lossiemouth and 202 Sqn with a passion.

These days I am the IATA 2 (Europe, Middle East & Africa) regional representative for a company that builds landing gear for commercial aircraft from rattley little Q400 turboprops to A380. Sometimes in have to work in North America or Asia if the resident rep's there are busy. This week I'm in Vienna to fix a B767 then straight to Riga to fix a Q400.

[eddiesolo]

Was going through the process of signing up for the RN when I met my future wife, all changed and never went through with it. Hats off to you guys that served, even in part-time or reserves.

Thank you for being there,

Si

[Guest]

Have to agree on the sense of humour thing. Most people don't get it except ex forces, even when I joined the police

I was told I was to sarky

[Lee W]

Crab fat, pongo or matelot, part time, full time or reserve, your sense of humour just gets better, civvies just don't understand it...I was in conversation years ago with an oppo, a civvy who new us came over to join the talk, me and oppo slipped into naval lingo...civvy promptly left as he didn't understand a word of what we were saying, he was slightly threaders with us, lol.

Respect to the past present and future forces

Lee

[Guest]

Have to agree on the sense of humour thing. Most people don't get it except ex forces, even when I joined the policeI was told I was to sarky

I get that all the time personally I don't do sarcasm wouldn't know how to

[Dave W]

I did 14 years as a rigger in the RAF on Nimrods, Pumas and Sea Kings with some time spent in component and sheet metal shops. The best was two tours at Kinloss and two years in Northern Ireland with a four month det to Saudi Arabia where the max daytime temperature was never below 50c and a four week det to Florida which was mostly spent on the pi$$.I hated Lossiemouth and 202 Sqn with a passion.

These days I am the IATA 2 (Europe, Middle East & Africa) regional representative for a company that builds landing gear for commercial aircraft from rattley little Q400 turboprops to A380. Sometimes in have to work in North America or Asia if the resident rep's there are busy. This week I'm in Vienna to fix a B767 then straight to Riga to fix a Q400.

Next time your in our old shed of a hanger at Southend (ATC Lasham) say hello.

[rickoshea52]

Next time your in our old shed of a hanger at Southend (ATC Lasham) say hello.

Will do but you'll need to break a LG for that to happen,Dave. Boeing jobs are rare for me and I have only been to your "shed" once, Lasham is a far less salubrious establishment. Do you get many 757's these days?

[Richi72]

Ok so I did a little time to

5 years Royal Dutch Marines / 2 years as an instructor with the Engineers / 7 years as a Master Mechanic leading a team of mechanics for the heavy Tanks (Leopard II, YPR 765, M109. Seen my share of different country's like Cambodia,Africa, Bosnia,Iraq and a couple more, nice time have some good memories.

The bad ones i like to forget. Well thats it from me.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

okay fellas we have a tin head amongst us, now raise a glass to the wrecking crew lol (yes richi you)lol

mobear