MusnShelton
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Basic TrainingHi everyone, Ive passed my audition in May & due to start basics in September, Im actually quite worried though, is basic training as bad its made out to be? 
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sticky blue
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Nah! - it's worse - 
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Aaron Aardvark
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your blue hair should go nicely with the uniform...i have to say. How about a nice red line down the sides .....might as well get it to match your cerries. 
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MrJpig
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It`s the strange blonde bearded appendage I`m concerned about....gonna need an extra long chin strap mate !! 
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Co-admin
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Click the diaries link at the top and you'll see how it is in the words of the recruits themselves. It is the best time of your life when you look back on it, HONEST
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MusnShelton
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| Aaron Aardvark wrote: | | your blue hair should go nicely with the uniform...i have to say. How about a nice red line down the sides .....might as well get it to match your cerries. |
lol not a fantastic quality picture I must add! Bloody phone camera!
Ive read the diaries, I have a few friends who did basics last year who I met up with on my audition, they are all making it out to be horiffic!
I think I'll be ok, out of my audition group I was the fittest, although I had spent month down the gym and out jogging im preparation for it.
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Co-admin
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Top tip: The fitter you are, the easier it is 
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MusnShelton
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| admin@home wrote: | | Top tip: The fitter you are, the easier it is |
Mile and a half in 9 mins any good
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Sharpy
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| Quote: | | Mile and a half in 9 mins any good |
Not a bad start!!! Just remember to pack as sense of humour and dont take anything too personally when you get a good bo*&c*ing!!!!
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sticky blue
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aaaah! - The BFT - mile and a half as a squad first 15 mins (Deli ?) - mile and a half on your own - 9 mins. should do the trick - I think I'll have a lie down made me feel tired thinking about it 
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Aaron Aardvark
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I dont believe in running unless something nasty is chasing you.
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sticky blue
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or it's nearly closing time
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MusnShelton
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| Aaron Aardvark wrote: | | I dont believe in running unless something nasty is chasing you. |
I had two very scary PTIs! If anyone know CSgt Yardley & Sgt Sansby you'll know what I mean!
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Sharpy
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I doubt if they were as scary as my training team!!! (Swings lantern and ducks approaching dits from Deal veterans!!!!)
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lesbryan
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I certainly would not like to do my GANGES training again.But having said that it made me what i am today(and thats not a pi$% head either
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sticky blue
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| lesbryan wrote: | | I certainly would not like to do my GANGES training again.But having said that it made me what i am today(and thats not a pi$% head either |
Your not a pi$$ head Les - your a connoisseur - just wot I am - I've opened a nice bottle of red which I'm savouring with my salad - I may just open another one when it's finished just to check both bottles taste the same - 
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RAB
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| sticky blue wrote: | | [- I've opened a nice bottle of red which I'm savouring with my salad |
 Oh dear Tommo...  ..Run out of salad cream again mate..???..
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sticky blue
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yup - the second bottle tastes just like the first one - salad cream? how common - french dressing home made using a little white wine for good measure - nice - hic!
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Co-admin
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CSgt Yardley just did an Ultra sports even... in the Arctic Circle. One event was a full Marathon! My PTI often pops into the forum. He was a great guy then as he is now. Thrashed us to within an inch of our lives and was a very fair and good SNCO. He pushed us beyond our own limits and made us far stronger than any of us ever thought possible. You will thank them in years to come, honest!
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MusnShelton
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| admin@home wrote: | | CSgt Yardley just did an Ultra sports even... in the Arctic Circle. One event was a full Marathon! |
I heard about that, he runs marathons in elite times, I heard that Sgt Sansby came 2nd in Mr Universe and had to do 3000 push ups in one go to get it!
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General Melchett
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Sharpy,
Talking about you and your training team I was chatting to one of them at FPGRM this week........ Do you want me to tell the stories?
See you in September Royal!
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Sharpy
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Go on Melch, Im sure I can laugh about it now!! Who was it you were talking too?
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General Melchett
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Norm.......
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Sharpy
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I take it back!! Im not going to laugh at all!!! 
Top bloke and excellent PW but bloody scary!! Ive seen Bootnecks quiver at the mere mention of his name!! Tell him I say hello if you see him again tho! Ask him about a certain ex female horn player named Jenny Spink and what she was like down the ranges!!!!
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Co-admin
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Wasn't it Norm who did the Drum Major bit in front of JUnior Band and marched round Nelson? Something he always wanted to do and he did it. He was a nice bloke as well... not to the recruits though
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Sharpy
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Thats the very one!! I was in the Wing at the time. He is a top bloke, hard but fair and very good at remedial training!!!
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General Melchett
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He's now UPWI at FPGRM and still remembers fondly dragging Sharpy (and others) by the scruff of the neck through training! He even watched Horseguards and loved it, spending the next couple of days ditting about his Band Service past to the amazement of the other seniors.....!
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MusnShelton
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3 more days of civvy life left! I thought Id be nervous by now.... should I be??
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Aaron Aardvark
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Ohhhhhhhh GOOD LUCK mate. You will enjoy every minute of it......well you will look back in 20 yrs and believe you enjoyed it. Make the most of it. This is the time you will make friends for life and aquire a new 'family' Very best of luck and I'm sure you will be fine.
Keep a diary and let us all know what happens and when. It will be of interest to many of us to read how things have changed and how things haven't. Also, you account in a diary will be a valuable memory lane for you in years to come. 
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sticky blue
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Yup - Good Luck - as Aaron said, keep a diary - all us oldies would be interested how things have changed, or not as the case maybe -
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General Melchett
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Good luck,
Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. Follow what the training team tell you implicitly and remember that you have two ears, but only one mouth - use them in that order and you won't go far wrong.
Oh, and pain is only temporary!
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lesbryan
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Very good advice start using the wrong piece of equipment you will find yourself in trouble 
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greenfairy
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Best of luck medear, I'm sure you'll do just fine
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townsergeant
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| General Melchett wrote: | Good luck,
Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. Follow what the training team tell you implicitly and remember that you have two ears, but only one mouth - use them in that order and you won't go far wrong.
Oh, and pain is only temporary! |
And when you go ashore, make sure you have 30p for the phone, a clean hanky, a piece of string and wear a clean pair of underpants!
(I never did understand why you had to carry a piece of string?)
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greenfairy
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Incase you break your shoelaces?
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townsergeant
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| greenfairy wrote: | | Incase you break your shoelaces? |
Not in the 1970's, when we were wearing 'Slip-on Winkle-pickers!'
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KirriePete
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Best of luck sunshine! Regular posts on the pain (and pleasure, if any) will:
(a) Be an invaluable guide to all those who follow you 
(b) Be a trip down memory lane for those who have suffered before 
(c) Give us all a laugh!
Keep yer chin up and remember if it gets tough, it's only 15 weeks!
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sticky blue
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| townsergeant wrote: | | greenfairy wrote: | | Incase you break your shoelaces? |
| Quote: | | Not in the 1970's, when we were wearing 'Slip-on Winkle-pickers!' |
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Funny you should say that - I've just come across an old me piccy - 68-69 ish! - wearing 'Slip-on Winkle-Pickers - Drain Pipe troo's and bootlace tie - looking so young and was proberbly thinking I looked cool - naaah! about as smooth as a warthogs bollock bag
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Apricot
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good luck from me too.
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MusnShelton
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Haha thanks everyone!
I will be keeping a diary from day one, it's something I've wanted to do for a long time.
I'll make sure I get hold of a laptop or get in the internet cafe to keep you updated
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sticky blue
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| MusnShelton wrote: | Haha thanks everyone!
I will be keeping a diary from day one, it's something I've wanted to do for a long time.
I'll make sure I get hold of a laptop or get in the to keep you updated |
There's proberbly one in the NAAFI - if it's still called that ?
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MusnShelton
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| sticky blue wrote: | | MusnShelton wrote: | Haha thanks everyone!
I will be keeping a diary from day one, it's something I've wanted to do for a long time.
I'll make sure I get hold of a laptop or get in the to keep you updated |
There's proberbly one in the NAAFI - if it's still called that ? |
I know theres one in HMS Nelson, just a few shops away from the NAAFI, (which is actually just a Spar shop but cheaper!)
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RAB
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| MusnShelton wrote: | | just a few shops away from the NAAFI, (which is actually just a Spar shop but cheaper!) |
Oh Goodo..!!.. You'll be able to keep up the good old tradition of the staple pay day diet of tinned "Ambrosia" Creamed Rice and tinned Peaches..(to be eaten straight from the cans simultaneously of course)...
All the very best with your training and career young 'un..
May come across you in October at reunion time....
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sticky blue
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Ditto -
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FFoglamp
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| RAB(Jock)THOMSON wrote: |
Oh Goodo..!!.. You'll be able to keep up the good old tradition of the staple pay day diet of tinned "Ambrosia" Creamed Rice and tinned Peaches..(to be eaten straight from the cans simultaneously of course)...
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The original staple pay day diet circa 1974, was a naafi toastie and 10 Number 6 !!!
Good Luck, Musician Shelton !.
(I am visiting RMSoM next week, in some guise. I will ask how you are faring). 
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Co-admin
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| FFoglamp wrote: | | a naafi toastie and 10 Number 6 !!! |
Ohhh yes! The Cheese Beano was the ultimate in lashing yourself up (Cheese on toast with beans on top) with some red and brown sauce
I still have them now.
As a trained rank it was nipping down to Alf's Cafe for a cheese roll whilst the mega breakfast was cooked for you.
You forgot the 9 o'clockers at Chatham Ffoggers! Stuff of legend! By they were good. We all had the HGE mugs out of out fighting order for the coffee or tea!
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lesbryan
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Cheese on toast with beans plenty pepper and lashings of red and brown sauce.I am absolutely drooling .I still have them for brekkie myself Uuummmm 
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bootybandy
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I always remember watching the FA Cup Final in 1972/73 in Gloucester House TV Room in the comfortable red leatherette chairs, and after getting a delivery of food from the NAAFI that normally consisted of one of the following; Egg and salad cream roll, Ham and Tomato roll, Cheese and pickle roll or some other concoction, before you even took a bite out of said roll, some wag would always shout.................Save us yer end. (Normally this would eminate from one Town Sergeant!!! gggrrrr) Happy days.......
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Aaron Aardvark
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Anyway.......good luck Chris
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townsergeant
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| bootybandy wrote: | | Save us yer end. (Normally this would eminate from one Town Sergeant!!! gggrrrr) Happy days....... |
Qui, moi?
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Mr Bass Trombone
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Good Luck young chappie enjoy you have had lots of good advice. Make yourself known if you get involved with the Reunion in October I will get you a pint it is possible, in themean time enjoy keep your head down and one day it all becomes a bad dream and then the fun starts.
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bootybandy
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| Mr Bass Trombone wrote: | | Good Luck young chappie enjoy you have had lots of good advice. Make yourself known if you get involved with the Reunion in October I will get you a pint it is possible, in themean time enjoy keep your head down and one day it all becomes a bad dream and then the fun starts. |
Spoken like a true Englishman that lives in Spain........
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sticky blue
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Do'es that make him Spinglish -
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Hornblower
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Nope - it makes him warm.
Best 'o luck Shelters!!!! (Harry or bus for short)
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sticky blue
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I'ts warm in a sauna in the middle of winter in the north of Sweden -
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MJ
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Good luck with your training!
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MusnShelton
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Hey all, just to let you know I'm still alive,
The troop I'm in is huge, the morale is high and things are going well.
I've just about got over the week 2 homesickness and starting to enjoy it!
Although a SGT did pass me yesterday and told me that " the Aardvark says hi"
I'm assuming that's you Andy? Are you
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sticky blue
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the plot thickens - who is Mr Aardvark?
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Hornblower
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Who cares?
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MrJpig
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| Hornblower wrote: | | Who cares? |
Quite !!
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MrJpig
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| MusnShelton wrote: |
I'm assuming that's you Andy? Are you |
Am I what?? Who was the SGT??
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Aaron Aardvark
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| MusnShelton wrote: |
I'm assuming that's you Andy? Are you |
No. Im Aaron since when has a Jumpig been an aardvark?? 
Im watching you Shelton 
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FFoglamp
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er, Andy ! are you a SGT now ? congratulations !
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Mr Bass Trombone
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Mr Ardvaark the invisible man no one will never know who he is he could be a Russian spy or Mi5 beware the hidden force, home sickness only one cure, enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the pain, the pleasure is yet to come, there is no easy way, just grit ya teefff and survive and at the end of the day all will be well, I survived 25 years and I aint got no visible scars, lots of good memories though, chin up young mucker you can do it.ENJOY.
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bootybandy
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| FFoglamp wrote: | | er, Andy ! are you a SGT now ? congratulations ! |
Is that Aandy Aardvark?
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Aaron Aardvark
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is what 'andy. All aardvarks are 'andy. Thats why we are mascots. Jolly useful creatures we are.
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Co-admin
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The hand of the forum (and Varkism) is wide reaching...
| MusnShelton wrote: | | Although a SGT did pass me yesterday and told me that " the Aardvark says hi" |
From Australia to America, in civvies and uniform, musician to Lt Col, Tri-service and the emergency services, we have agents all over the kingdom and world! Hope you enjoy your first field exercise this week and good of you to pop in and give a quick sit rep BZ.
I'm sure the Sergeant who said that to you would be better described as having stunning good looks, natural charm and as smart as a highly polished smart thing from Smartchester
Keep smiling, it makes the training team wonder what you have been doing!
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General Melchett
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Yes Deli, obviously a modest man too. Smart as a guard but twice as.......
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FFoglamp
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Twice as .................................
what , Melch ?
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General Melchett
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A. Tall
B. Horny
C. Shiny
You decide!
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RAB
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| General Melchett wrote: | A. Tall
B. Horny
C. Shiny
You decide! |
Errrrrrrrrrrrrr.. ..I'll go for You decide...
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sticky blue
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| admin@home wrote: | .
I'm sure the Sergeant who said that to you would be better described as having stunning good looks, natural charm and as smart as a highly polished smart thing from Smartchester
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Can't think who that is.....
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greenfairy
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Can't be anyone we know!
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A
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Definitely not!
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