john_morris_uk
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Bet you don't say that to them face to face!
Are ex-Military Types better Skippers?
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capnsensible
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OGITD
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Oh yes I did! .... it's called 'Banter' .... but I also arranged them access to the 1st Neptune Ski-Slope and issued them (on the shhh!) with Machetes (it was amazing what I could find as consumable items from stores)..... & I so wish I still had access.
john_morris_uk
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Keep you shirt on! And yes I know all about banter... Interesting re you comments. I was at the dry slope the other day. I regret life in the service has changed a lot in the last few years. Even consumables seem to get accounted for..
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nortada
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Despite the huge Fred Drift really enjoyed this thread - hopefully there will be plenty more banter.
OGITD
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If you want 'Banter'
And you were a Submariner just look-up BIBS on FB ..... it's 'as-it-was-back-in-the-day' .... EPIC! & 'Fred-Drift' is a senior member! ....... it's funny (not really).... what we all took for granted ..... is what we all now miss.
Permission to 'take-the-piss' ..... SIR!
And you were a Submariner just look-up BIBS on FB ..... it's 'as-it-was-back-in-the-day' .... EPIC! & 'Fred-Drift' is a senior member! ....... it's funny (not really).... what we all took for granted ..... is what we all now miss.
Permission to 'take-the-piss' ..... SIR!
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nortada
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And you were a Submariner just look-up BIBS on FB ..... it's 'as-it-was-back-in-the-day' .... EPIC! & 'Fred-Drift' is a senior member! ....... it's funny (not really).... what we all took for granted ..... is what we all now miss.
Permission to 'take-the-piss' ..... SIR!
A submariner - me? Never & haven't got a clue what you are saying! Is it NAMAT or HEFO Code? Suggest you take more water with your grog.
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nortada
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Believe in the Army, in the Officer's Mess, forenames are used by all except 'The Colonel' Why are they all called Rodney or Rupert?
In the Airforce, crew/formation position is used in a combat aircraft. Rank or Boss is more usually in the Officer's Mess. If all else fails, the aircrew revert to idiotic nicknames, which are patched onto their flight suits.
Navy use funny things like The Old Man, Jimmy The One, Flyco, Pusser, The Regulator/Sheriff or The Pilot (who is the navigation officer) & many others - no wonder they are all at sea!
Poignard
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"Ours not to reason why etc."
Well that's an improvement.
When HMS Gambia was on her last passage from Scotland to Portsmouth to be finally decommissioned we had to chuck all the consumable stores overboard. Hundreds of tons of perfectly good equipment (paid for by the taxpayer) were thrown away. Being a rather insubordinate rating I disobeyed the 'ours not to reason why' rule and asked why on earth we were doing this. I was told that consumable stores were assumed to have been 'consumed' the instant they issued, regardless of whether they were ever actually used; in other words they no longer officially existed, and there was no means whereby non-existent items could be received back into the stores system.
I sometimes wonder if, in a few hundred years time, some marine archeologist will be puzzling over the significance of a dead straight line of warship spare parts down the middle of the Irish Sea.
Well that's an improvement.
When HMS Gambia was on her last passage from Scotland to Portsmouth to be finally decommissioned we had to chuck all the consumable stores overboard. Hundreds of tons of perfectly good equipment (paid for by the taxpayer) were thrown away. Being a rather insubordinate rating I disobeyed the 'ours not to reason why' rule and asked why on earth we were doing this. I was told that consumable stores were assumed to have been 'consumed' the instant they issued, regardless of whether they were ever actually used; in other words they no longer officially existed, and there was no means whereby non-existent items could be received back into the stores system.
I sometimes wonder if, in a few hundred years time, some marine archeologist will be puzzling over the significance of a dead straight line of warship spare parts down the middle of the Irish Sea.
nortada
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Did the expression, 'dumping the gash' originate from this?