Thanks for posting. I have searched for this one in vain until now. "I've fought a million battles but I' always home in time for tea." "Ho'd me back!"
All the glory goes to the weekend soldier! Yes, Leonidas exposes the fact that he's firstly a potter. But the Corinthian turns out. The TA para Connolly would have given the Soviets one hell of a fight.
My first and subsequent uniforms were too big. and guesse what, 20 years later I sign on as adult instructor and my uniform ? 2 sizes too big of course ! Love you Billy, made many a boring march bearable ;)
@@greenbaggyskin9750 I know, because I was there!! Two weeks of buggering about, I was so hungry and fed up that when we had to pick up something from an RAF camp - and had access to the dining hall - I stuffed myself and then put a steak (covered in gravy and onions) into my combat jacket pocket for later. But the end....oh, the end!!! We hit the regular infantry playing the Soviets and I got to give it O/CDT Rambo with a GPMG and two belts of 50 blank from the hip. It was mental!! Nobody else reacted. My pal (later 22 SAS) had a regular fire a blank in his face from twelve inches (the BFA stopping most of it), and that started the contact and my rooty toot with the GPMG. What a posing young wanker I was. But the umpires gave us the victory on the big board, we were told, thanks to a thorough melodramatic hosing of the advancing troops by use truly. In amongst the tedium and tins of cheese possessed it was definitely the high point!
Raven... just a wee tip. One needn't be in the Terrys or the Regs to understand this... 24 years in the American Forces and I got it quite well. Having served alongside many different troops of many nations, despite disparity in pay, uniforms, and language, we are all the same... even to the same experiences with our NCO's (and I know this well for I went from a simple wee private to the equivilent of a Company Sergeant Major. And, I wished I could have been a wee private again...
I think he could have meant the 'Falls Road'........but no matter we get the picture Billy .. 'Economic conscription' being alive and well around the Globe..
