Military - ex or current serving

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Which branch of the military were/are you in

  • Royal Army

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Royal Air Force

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Royal Navy

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 19.0%
  • Total voters
    21
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Just wanted to have a quick straw poll at how many ex or serving military folk plus reservists we have on the forum - have noticed a fair few

I was in the RAF for 22 years - TG 3 Telecomms Tech then moved to TG4 IT Tech
 
ssshhhh!

I've gone for other. I can't tell you what or where... I'd have to kill you very quickly if I did, but don't worry, the bruises wouldn't show.
 
TAVR RAPC (Rape & Pillage Corps) then AG corps

8 years service 87-95

Interpretation of the above- Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve, Royal Army Pay Corps, then Adjutant General Corps.

happy days, good mates,
 
Oh BTW almost forgot, was in Army, 1RHA came out in 95.

Still dont think that many civvies get the extreme humour that many services personnel enjoy. I've not met one that gets how sick you can be and find it funny. Ha Ha, anyone for freckles or a mexican BW
 
stevelev said:
Oh BTW almost forgot, was in Army, 1RHA came out in 95.

Still dont think that many civvies get the extreme humour that many services personnel enjoy. I've not met one that gets how sick you can be and find it funny. Ha Ha, anyone for freckles or a mexican BW
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Not been in the services, but I know what you mean about the humour, having worked with those that served in the Falklands and Iraq. It certainly does take a special breed to understand and appreciate that the humour is sometimes, no matter how dark, all you have to get through the tough times.

I've been told some horror stories and the how some very dark humour helped keep people sane, even though tears were still shed.
 
3 year Regular.
1957 to 1960.
Royal Engineers,38 Corps Engineer Regiment,63 Field Engineer Plant Troop.
Highlight ,served on Christmas Island during Operation Grapple and saw 4 H Bomb tests,
Also had a weeks R and R in Honolulu.
Good times and nearly signed on for the duration but glad I did not.
Joined the London Fire Brigade instead,a good career.
Dewsweeper
 
5 weeks at HMS Raleigh as a Tiff. I didn't pass out though so does this mean I can put that I was in or not? They did pay me for 5 weeks ;-)
 
I was Army (Not sure what the Royal Army is though......:) 13 Years in Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards. Cracked a first posting in HK in 86 for 2 years and never looked back and when I think of the laughs, drinking and the gals!!! ;) and the travel all over the Far East!!....... 4 operational tours in 6 years when it got busy in the Gulf (Iraq, Saudi) NI x2 and Bosnia and a fair few bits and bobs training and expos in Brunei, Canada x2, Germany 5 yrs, London 3 yrs, Kenya, Italian and Swiss Alps, and Devon!! Good and bad times, Great friends made and lost along the way. RIP. :thup:
 
Took the kings shilling in 99 and was in the Andrew for 10 years, which is just longer than a dogs watch. RTB as a Killock Golly in 09.

Absolutely lived the dream and was certified jack as you like, spending much of my time under pun. Got pretty threaders near the end of my watch and banged my notice in before finally swallowing the anchor.

I don't know what it was that made me change my outlook. Maybe one to many cheesy wam bams, train smashes, spud you don't like's or wrestling with the red lead, whilst losing my port and starboard scran spanners when it was roughers off the lizard.

Loved being a dabber, spending years of my life sat on the plot in the gloom room. Still to this day miss out all gash, before disembarking for a foreign run in somewhere exotic..........like Djibouti, Alexandria or Souda bay.







anyone fancy translating...

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Did my duty for Queen & country for 17yrs in her majesties Royal Navy ,1st deployment on Hms Gloucester 10miles from the coast of Kuwait looking after the US Battleship Missouri while it bombarded the coast.

Medical discharged due to two ACL operations -Now no ligament in knee :(
 
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