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Originally Posted by
Bruce_in_Oz
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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11-18-2017 12:15 AM
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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.
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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
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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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
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Some of the old RSMs are holding onto the old ways just because...
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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
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
thats me then
I was there too, and to think the old RSMs are younger than we are now...
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Ha Ha............could still show them a thing or two hey Jim?
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
could still show them a thing or two
Some days I'm not too sure.
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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