ex-squaddies 1970s

[Mickey]

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[Bryan]

Royal Engineers 1977 - 83 and RE TA 1987 - 96

[Mickey]

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[Mickey]

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[James Brodie]

Once a Howard always a Howard
Minden 1954
Infantryman.The Green Howards 1st Bn
Royal Engineers Longmoor 153 Sqn
Royal Corps of Transport Longmoor
A1 RED
Cheleea Pensioners....whoa not yet still playing with my 0 gauge choo choos.
J.B.

[redtoon1892]

R.N.F. - in the long and distant past before the army (not forgetting the R.N. and R.A.F.) were butchered by successive treacherous Govts.

[52D]

I count Two Deltics and Two peaks and i suspect a Midland thing so far.

[Mickey]

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[2512silverfox]

I still think that the Lee Enfield was far better than the SLR. It may have been single shot but in trained hands was pretty lethal at extreme ranges. The worst one was the original sten which killed almost as many of our own as it did the enemy!

Happy days - Royal Fusilers (7th Foot) 1954 to 1967

[Mickey]

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[Autocar Publicity]

Not just old soldiers. The Mark 4's a good rifle and better than many modern ones with fancy cartridges or locking systems, though the ghost of the running fox I got at c 200 yards would probably disagree - and before anyone goes "Ahhh, poor Basil", that *** had previously killed a coopful of hens in a wanton blood-lust.

A certain friend's grandfather served in SOE during WW2 and he reckoned the later Stens could be good SMGs, but an awful lot of them had a very annoying habit of jamming at an inconvenient moment. Excepting Lee Enfields and the Bren, he and his companions always used German weapons...

[Mickey]

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[2512silverfox]

There was quite a lot of good reasoning behind SOE and SAS using German and other weapons during WW2 and that was the ready availability of ammunition when working behind the lines in Europe in particular. The SAS (and SF in general) still have a habit of using almost anything that fits the bill other than the issue weaponry - one of their favourites is still the pump action shot gun and of course the H&K also now used extensively by the police.

Someone mentioned the Bren which also was a very effective weapon especially if used to fire single shots while on an automatic setting but as soon as you fired bursts, the accuracy became very wild. With the former method 28 bulls in less than a minute with a magazine was quite easily achieved!

[Mickey]

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[manna]

G'Day Gents

Sorry I've never been in any of the armed forces ( was a boy scout ) There was a driver at Kings Cross that was a para during WW11 and served at Arnhem, which we talked about on a few occasions, I think he was a Bren gunner, but after a couple of days he threw the Bren away, (wore it out) and used a MG42 for the rest of the time he was there, he said that if it wasn't for the MG42 they would have been overrun on more than one occasion.

manna