Peter OT question

[Paul S.]

Note that the guardsman in the pic has fainted to "attention" or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

... Standard training was to do little isometric exercised (muscle against muscle) to maintain blood-flow and alertness (and perpendicularity).

And not lock your bl**dy knees!

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[Macca]

Well,i’ll admit it.
After a godawful night until sparrows drinking port-after everything else ran out & playing cards,I apparently went down like an iron bark post.
No recollection of the event whatsoever,no charges,not even a hint,though I did hear later it was the fact I went down in the attention position & stayed in it that swayed the normally curmudgeon like RSM.

[Gil Boyd]

It does have a great deal to do with the mental pressure and the archaic uniforms worn for long periods with over tight belts/braces and boots on in hot temperatures.
Always told my guys to wiggle their toes to keep circulation going.
If you watch any footage of the Guards Division on parade waiting for Royalty, they will always get the attention/stand at ease/change arms thrown in on a regular basis.

Perhaps sometimes its not enough after 10 pints of Guinness

[Peter Laidler]

I cannot, for the life of me, see what on earth the Guards and others are still wearing high stiff collars for. It simply beggars belief. Mind you, I see no point in bright red uniforms and bear skins for ceremonial. Or even a ceremonial uniform. What's the matter with the standard REME types in a BEST uniform for parades. Anyway, rainy afternoon here in overcast Oxfordshire

[browningautorifle]

Some of the old RSMs are holding onto the old ways just because...

[Gil Boyd]

Oops.....thats me then Jim............tradition my son, tradition!!

Peter, Better than having a white cross across the red tunic to give them Colonial types a better aiming patch

[browningautorifle]

thats me then

I was there too, and to think the old RSMs are younger than we are now...

[Gil Boyd]

Ha Ha............could still show them a thing or two hey Jim?

[browningautorifle]

could still show them a thing or two

Some days I'm not too sure.