Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

----- Forward operating base San Miguel------

Fleet Adm. mandrake: < Reading message from Adm. Lord Sprior> JJ are withdrawing from Kunming.,,,, Well that sounds like a good thing but somebody find out where the hell Kunming is

[sprior]

So today I go in search of HR and find them in Fort Southwick. Now, I've been in a few HR departments but this was Alice in Wonderland stuff. I get to the front gate and there's a Centurion tank:

[sprior]

I drive past a few mines and torpedoes and then see Alpacas, goats and a submarine conning tower. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

[sprior]

Then a couple of 25lb-ers in desert camo:

[FOW]

Where is that? - up on The Hill

[sprior]

A 3.7in AA gun to keep expense claims at bay:

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: FOW

Where is that? - up on The Hill

Yep.

[sprior]

A strange unidentified gun. Anyone got any clues?

[sprior]

I really like this. IKB put his name on this tiny bridge:

[sprior]

And a bloody big moat:

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I drive past a few mines and torpedoes and then see Alpacas, goats and a submarine conning tower. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

Conning tower??? I looked up P246 and the HMS Statesman on wikipedia comes up... The overhead looks like they buried the WHOLE sub there leaving the gun n conning tower aboveground. just sayin...[:D]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... 5&t=h&z=21

[sprior]

And a great view over Portsmouth harbour:

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... 5&t=h&z=21

It's just the conning tower. She was broken up in 1961.

She spent the time between August 1944 and August 1945 with the Eastern Fleet, where she had an eventful career. She sank the Japanese army cargo ship Sugi Maru No.5 (the former Panamanian flagged, Norwegian owned Gran), twenty five Japanese sailing vessels, the Japanese trawler Matsujima Maru No.3, four Japanese coasters, including the Nippon Maru No.19, Nanyo Maru No. 17 and Nippon Maru No.14, a small Japanese tanker, five small unidentified Japanese vessels, ten small Japanese landing craft, three Japanese barges and a derelict wreck drifting in the Straits of Malacca, described as probably a coaster.

[sprior]

And... goats!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

A strange unidentified gun. Anyone got any clues?

150mm Infantry Gun? German maybe? Italian? Looks like desert colors.

[Cap Mandrake]

Does HR mean what it means here? "Human Resources".

In an HR department here you are likely to find a bunch of cubicles with middle-aged women, a portable video player and a bunch sexual harrassment how not to videos.

I have NEVER seen an AA gun or any pieces of artillery at an HR department here.

[sprior]

Yes, I do mean Human Resources. But then how many HR departments do you know of based in a fort?

[sprior]

Actually the SU made his first pun today. "Do you know why those alpacas need all those guns? They're getting ready for the alpacalypse".

[Simonsez]

I'd agree - German 15cm sFH-18M. (A 15cm sFH-18 fitted with a muzzle brake).

German 15cm sFH-18M

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Simonsez

I'd agree - German 15cm sFH-18M. (A 15cm sFH-18 fitted with a muzzle brake).

Thanks!