tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post9130054224055817618..comments2024-01-02T16:30:43.455+00:00Comments on Hog Day Afternoon: Who am I? What happened? I shouldn't even be here.Hogdayafternoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-74365116373765260772012-04-03T15:39:28.681+01:002012-04-03T15:39:28.681+01:00Spark`: Our special forces are indeed a small unit...Spark`: Our special forces are indeed a small unit, esp compared to the size of the Americans Delta or SEALs. eg. a RM sgt I was chatting to recently had to sit through a yarn of mine where we were using the SBS to get us out to sea to nab the drug runners. The Op was in 1992 but this bloke knew all about it! Thats why you can never bullshit them, the Royal Marines are really a very small outfit.Hogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-13285014533993049052012-04-03T12:37:01.396+01:002012-04-03T12:37:01.396+01:00It's funny how life goes. Another friend of mi...It's funny how life goes. Another friend of mine, after 7 years in the Para's went onto other, slightly more special things. Three years later he was invalided out after a jump went wrong, just in time to miss the Falklands. Which, as you might imagine, rather upset him.<br /> A ship-to-ship helicopter transfer killed nearly two dozen of his friends out there - toss a coin over whether he'd have been on that flight.sparkflashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106858614940850559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-1969575795537699852012-04-03T10:35:51.319+01:002012-04-03T10:35:51.319+01:00Scott: I have a special place in my heart for Lt C...Scott: I have a special place in my heart for Lt Cdr Esmonde and his gallant men.<br /><br />Spark: I had blokes turning up at my police stn wanting to be sworn in to fight the Argies.Hogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-38041506434354532822012-04-03T09:27:31.767+01:002012-04-03T09:27:31.767+01:00One friend of mine was playing football when the F...One friend of mine was playing football when the Falklands was invaded. The other team had to put their uniforms back on and go and fight the Argentines - some still had their shinpads on - whilst my friend and his team mates had to rush back to HMS Endurance.sparkflashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106858614940850559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-90713858271081948272012-04-02T10:51:22.368+01:002012-04-02T10:51:22.368+01:00Given just what a Stringbag actually was, it is as...Given just what a Stringbag actually was, it is astonishing what the FAA accomplished with it. Superb torpedo bomber pilots making do with what they were given. If only they could have had TBMs to start with, there would have been no surface Kriegsmarine, and perhaps the U Boats may have been beaten earlier than May of '42. YAY Fleet Air Arm! HUZZAH!SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-67392801502753975452012-03-31T13:55:03.580+01:002012-03-31T13:55:03.580+01:00QM:
I think it was the `Pull Gang`, a lesser know...QM: <br />I think it was the `Pull Gang`, a lesser known but no less ruthless successor to the press gang. They'd find people in, or about to join, the Navy, knock `em out and dump them ashore. These days they're called `The Government`.Hogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-22157149356162496222012-03-31T02:17:31.314+01:002012-03-31T02:17:31.314+01:00So you were Shanghaied into the cops? Or was it a ...So you were Shanghaied into the cops? Or was it a press gang? :-)Quartermasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-85192884763043088612012-03-30T22:30:45.591+01:002012-03-30T22:30:45.591+01:00HD, I think some of your politicos are scarier tha...HD, I think some of your politicos are scarier than ours. Yikes!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-37340903193024771622012-03-30T19:04:25.837+01:002012-03-30T19:04:25.837+01:00My best mate was to ship out on the Coventry when ...My best mate was to ship out on the Coventry when she finished an excercise. <br />There was a wee National emergency and she left without him. He ended up as one of the ROs on the Geestport, which may have saved his life.Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434417594974826136.post-16962039921336513972012-03-30T19:01:50.807+01:002012-03-30T19:01:50.807+01:00I always wanted to be a fast jet jockey. Unfortuna...I always wanted to be a fast jet jockey. Unfortunately I didn't have 'O' level English, so I became a L tech NI. Later (days) it was changed to L tech FS. <br /><br />Ah, the old String Bag, a wonderful aeroplane. (I wanted to join the FAA, but they didn't want me :-( ) The Swordfish was also known as a TSR1 (Torpedo, Strike and Reconnaissance) bit more successful than the TSR2!TonyFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14356306581977054156noreply@blogger.com