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Hero Do not forget that the Unit noms have to be vetted by brigade and higher. AND that the deploying unit will also have a say in the fitness of the pers to deploy. ( During the work up trg) I understand your concerns and held the same ones myself for many years....I did mention that as an...

Lost I lived through a period in the reserves where our applications for tour were regularly denied. During the 90's there was a lot of emphasis on CRE ( the Combat readiness Evaluation). I am not complaining about the CRE; but it led to a situation where CO's were very reluctant to send away...

Hero, as an example: My unit currently has 26 soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, including my humble self.  The pers deployed were selected from the Regmental Standby List.  While the CO certainly did wish to send as many soldiers overseas as had volunteered; we were restricted by postions...

Any chance of a night sometime in July? I'll be on block leave then and able to supervise Bruce as he gets hammered.

Does anyone else remember the Bognor Liberation Army and it's affiliated youth group: the Bognor Youth. Used to hotly contest Meaford in the day under its Massey ferguson driving leaders Gene and Cess Pool.  Not to mention the naval arm under their cousin tide? Somthing about tax on beer and...

By plying the Security Force with beer; and then, fueled by Irn Brew, launching devastating foreheid strikes at close range.

Many Reserve Unit's bands are separate units or at least have / had separate UIC's. This may be the reason they have CWO's in the PM role and Drummy as an MWO. It may also be a by-product of the tendancy to employ musicians at working ranks of Sgt and above. I remember working alongside the...

Geo Correct The spelling mistakes are all my own...have to stop posting at work.

From our brothers on ARRSSE

Do you still doff your civvie cap if your pass an officer while in mufti? Lots of folks seem to have forgotten that as well.

Couldn't agree more........ I remember one pathetic worm who had the audacity to berate us for calling his parenting skills into question when the balloons were seen in the poor wee bairn's diper......

Nothing we didnt see at GCC eh Bruce?

Try to find "Sweet Briar"....a PPCLI tune about Korea....very good

Sapper I do. The funding issue I am referring to is the lack of sufficent Unit funds to pay for any extra line serials that may be given to a particular unit.

The problem is that Reserve Units are only allocated so many line serials each; and thusly is the funding apportioned. My own unit has a whole slew of pers willing to sign on,; but we cannot take even a fraction of them due to: Lack of posn on BMQ / SQ; lack of line serials to move them into...

Yeah, the return of the cargo pack :o

Or No's 1 AND 2 on the C5

Beausant!

Too right mate.........who would wear a french painter's cap anyway  ;)

Male: "Male Marines also cannot have their chest hair protrude from their T-shirts" Not only a US thing. Back in '95  a certain CSM at the RCR Bsl ordered my mate to "tame" what the CSM termed his "Roll-neck sweater" .... by shaving a large patch of his chest bare... SB