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RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:06 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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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
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:27 pm
by 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:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:29 pm
by 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?

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:31 pm
by sprior
Then a couple of 25lb-ers in desert camo:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:32 pm
by FOW
Where is that? - up on The Hill
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:32 pm
by sprior
A 3.7in AA gun to keep expense claims at bay:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:33 pm
by sprior
ORIGINAL: FOW
Where is that? - up on The Hill
Yep.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:34 pm
by sprior
A strange unidentified gun. Anyone got any clues?

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:37 pm
by sprior
I really like this. IKB put his name on this tiny bridge:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:38 pm
by sprior
And a bloody big moat:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:39 pm
by 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
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:39 pm
by sprior
And a great view over Portsmouth harbour:

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:42 pm
by sprior
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.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:50 pm
by sprior
And... goats!

RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:02 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
A strange unidentified gun. Anyone got any clues?
150mm Infantry Gun? German maybe? Italian? Looks like desert colors.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:13 pm
by 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.
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:17 pm
by sprior
Yes, I do mean Human Resources. But then how many HR departments do you know of based in a fort?
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:20 pm
by 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".
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:23 pm
by Simonsez
I'd agree - German 15cm sFH-18M. (A 15cm sFH-18 fitted with a muzzle brake).
German 15cm sFH-18M
RE: Get your kicks..on route 66
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:25 pm
by sprior
ORIGINAL: Simonsez
I'd agree - German 15cm sFH-18M. (A 15cm sFH-18 fitted with a muzzle brake).
Thanks!