Ex Service persons

[andym]

Having found out that there is a RN Tiffy on site,i wondered how many ex servicemen/women are also on the site?

[sprior]

Ex-tiffy. RN from 77 - 93. It came off in me 'and chief!

[Halsey]

A bunch![;)]

[Jevhaddah_Slitherine]

Lots of us RN- Stoker (we know more than the Tiffys, wheres me hammer) [:D]

"It was like that when I got here Chief"
" Oh well, just scrub round it "

Cheers

Jev

[FreeBird]

I think that there are quite a few of us on this forum.

[FlashfyreSP]

As you can see by my avatar, I "did my time in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club". 1983-1989, West Coast.

[Doggie]

There's plenty of us, but we don't know near as much about the U.S. military as European college students.[8|]

[andym]

ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

Lots of us RN- Stoker (we know more than the Tiffys, wheres me hammer) [:D]

"It was like that when I got here Chief"
" Oh well, just scrub round it "

Cheers

Jev

nice to see a bit of lower deck humour there shippers![;)][;)][;)]

[chief]

Guess my Nic gives me away.....USN 1949-1968, yeah me were a "lifer".

[Jevhaddah_Slitherine]

@andym They were good days AND nights [:D]

Once saw a rather obnoxious PO get a team to unbolt a railing while he shouted and cussed at em, only to then lean on said railing and dissapear with it into Gib harbour [:D]

Cheers

Jev

[USSAmerica]

Well, I'm somewhere in the crowd on the bow of my avatar pic.  '88 - '97 in the USN as an AT.  3 deployments on board USS America, including Desert Storm, and 6 trips like the one in the pic through the Suez Canal.  [8D]

[Terl]

Well, no Navy for me, but I am a retired Infantry officer from US Army [:)]

[tc464]

My first year in the Air Force was spent in a Navy school.       Former bomb disposal type here.

[reg113]

Also, USN as an AT. '70 - '76. 3 deployments on USS Enterprise.

[Sarge]

Does the US Army count [:D]

[rolfyd]

Wanted to go navy , but colour blind . Ended up in the Canadian combat engineers
mech troop . demolitions bridge building ( ah the great British invention THE BAILEY BRIDGE !![:@] )

[Riun T]

Canadian infantry 83-89 North saskatchewan Regiment also qualified DEM-TEC.

[watchtower]

LOL -Jevhaddah -----

MY old GUV on minesweepers 41-43 watched a couple of silly buggers drinking beers whilst priming grenades in Alex harbour. Both in a small boat...well you can guess the rest ......lots of small fish for tea. Some very hard letters for the Guv to send [8|]

BTW I was not on M/S then!! He was my GOV in my first land job - photo shop. That old boy had done 3 Russian convoys in a lend-lease destroyer...Bravery...that’s bravery! 5 foot dead he is and at 87 he will still knock your teeth out.

.......But only if you take the piss out of the mine sweepers....The lend lease destroyers!!! He will kick any yank in the ball's that had anything to do with them.

I will always remember his account's of blokes going in the artic sea. “Take a long breath and think of everyone you love - and then dive deep to the icy depth"

That was the advice of his CO if the ship sank!!

[andym]

I just love the Sea dits that start to flood in.Being a scabbie i never had the joy of a smelly messdeck full of stokers,all shorebased i was.When i was seconded to the Blues&Royals for the Ambulance strike in 82,we were coming back from the galley(cookhouse for the pongoes among us)after a terrible army breakfast.One of our blokes Tom Sneade was ambling across the  Parade Square,beret on the back of his head,fag in mouth and hnds in pockets,when, from nowhere a voice thunderd
"Oi!Get your hands out of your pockets,you filthy little matelot!"We were rooted to the spot,noone in sight at all except us and poor Tom,whose immediate response was to look towards Heaven!!!!!!We wet ourselves!!!!We never did find out who it was.[:D][:D][:D]
 
 
(p.s. have you seen www.rumration.co.uk  )
 

[JWW]

Like Terl, I didn't work for a living either.  Retired US Army officer, 92.   Infantry and then remf.  In about 7 years I can be a retired teacher unless I decide retirement is too boring.