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[tankhunter]

Hiya Jim,

The SASC is the smallest Corps in the British Army. When I was at the School of Infantry (Now renamed the Land Warfare Centre) They were the Bain of my life there!
CONSTANTY coming into my Armourers Workshop to pick my Brains. On what ever technical detail they wanted to ferret out.
You see they write the Army User handbooks, used in service by All Arms.
And there is CONSTANT Competition amongst themselves to vie for a better Document Etc write up.

Because the Cops Is so small. Competition amongst themselves is fierce.
And with them it's all about promotion! The better a Technical Book/ point/ Review of a Publication. The Better ACR (Annual Confidential Report) They get, severely enhances their chances of promotion, Ouicker!......

There were one or two good ones. But most were only interested in self enhancement rank wise. To Me, they were a Pain in the Arse!

Peter of course, being more of a Diplomat & a 'H'officer & a Gentleman. Is far too Polite to stoop to my Level of 'Technical Discription' of these Fine 'Upstanding' (?) Members of their Corps!.......

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[browningautorifle]

They were a bit of a pain where we were also. They had nothing to do with us overall, rankwise or militarily but they'd flap on about things. One assessed a class about GPMG and failed the instructor for his description on gas adjustment...saying there were 11 positions of gas adjustment, check the book. No Sir, we only have 6. Check the book. We too write the books, and that was another whole painful story. Most of us just wanted to get out of that camp...back to real life.

[Peter Laidler]

Phew..... I'm glad it was you two wot said that! Admittedly, they could be a tad pedantic but being the Engineering Officer type, I made it my business to advise the up and coming young thrusters that THEY were the instructors teachers and NOT the technical bods. As I know from experience, when it comes to technicalities, you can be NEARLY right but hopelessly wrong. If you need technical help, speak to the technical people - But all in all, they were a nice bunch!

The Technical publications people (Geoff Xxxxx etc etc) down the road would quickly pick up on cock-ups or suggestions for amendments/apparent mistakes and ask for tech advice. As did the EMER/AESP reviewers at Andover. Are there still any EMER's left Skippy or all AESP's now?

Another thing was...... No....... for another day!

[browningautorifle]

We almost need to open a thread about this, I'd say we're effectively off topic now, and I have so much more on this wandering discussion...

[TactAdv]

We almost need to open a thread about this, I'd say we're effectively off topic now, and I have so much more on this wandering discussion...

So, you're saying it's time to invoke Godwin's Law?? ;-))

-TomH

[browningautorifle]

Godwin's Law

Pretty funny...

That's neat Brian, never have I seen one of those. They look like a nightmare to stow in transit.

[Brian Dick]

The Mk.III GAP was introduced in the LoC in 1937 and apparently served until 1968 or thereabouts. These came out of Canada in the 1990's but have no distinct manufacturer's markings present. Peter said they're identical to British ones. Maybe they are British manufacture. They are painted in both the early olive and later dark olive paint spanning decades of service!

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I know exactly what you mean about stowing them for transit. They're going to poke a hole in something for sure!

[Peter Laidler]

But as rare as rocking horse sh........, er........, manure!

I've got a funny feeling that the spiked bases fitted into wooden blocks in the canvas holdall that contained the lamp boxes. The lamp box had a shielded lamp, switch and leads powered by two 1.5 wax covered waterproof batteries, 1.5" x 1.5" x 4" tall. With + and - brass screw-on terminals on the top. Seems strange seeing the GAP's again!