How do you clean tarnished military cartridges ??

[Peter Laidler]

It's funny how you laugh about these things but I've seen melted chocolate or toffee bars still in the split open wrappers, squeezed between the grille bars of compasses and into the ocular lenses of binos.......... I used wonder '.........what are the xxxxxxx DS doing at the end of these exercises? Don't they inspect their kit?' Mind you as Warminster, the students were all young Officers!!!!!!!!!

[browningautorifle]

Soft melted chocolate bars squeezed everywhere was another nightmare.

I had scads of them in Gagetown NB and there was everything in their kit...because they were kids. I even had our current PM's brother as Offr Cadet... Oranges and sandwiches in the mask protective case were good for later inspections... Usually decaying when found.

[Sentryduty]

Oranges and sandwiches in the mask protective case were good for later inspections... Usually decaying when found.

That may not have entirely been the candidate's fault, us troops were well known for hiding perishables in various secret places on other's kit.

There is nothing quite as satisfying as a cottage cheese filled gortex jacket, boiled eggs in a map pocket, roast beef in a field cap or wet Wainwright cow dung in an empty ballistic plate carrier.

Ah, S**t that makes me laugh, and yes, I was one of those guys...

That small pack looks a little light, better fill it with rocks, hmm, canteen is empty? Better fill it with rocks too, rifle unattended? Best to remove the bolt and replace the full magazine of blanks back int he weapon just to be safe...

LOL, I miss those days, the civilian sector just doesn't have the same sense of humour as the Infantry...

[browningautorifle]

us troops were well known for hiding perishables in various secret places on other's kit.

Now that I didn't know, but these things also go back to Bde Comd insp on the square in Work Point and an orange rolling across the square after Gas, Gas, Gas!...or, a blue colored orange that is...

[vintage hunter]

the civilian sector just doesn't have the same sense of humour as the Infantry...

You ain't never been on a construction job have you?

[Sentryduty]

You ain't never been on a construction job have you?

I actually spent the first 2 years post Army on construction sites. However they were all oil industry builds where safety rules, shenanigans meant the loss of a 6 figure income, and customary blacklisting from all area sites.

[vintage hunter]

However they were all oil industry builds where safety rules, shenanigans meant the loss of a 6 figure income, and customary blacklisting from all area sites.

I spent 8 years at a nuclear weapon facility. We had ultra strict rules concerning safety and horse play too, but pranks still happened at fairly regular intervals.

[TDH]

I remember one guy looking for his toolbox for hours only to find it hanging from the crain which had been moved all the way to the back corner. He was a bit perturbed and less than an hour later anther one of the guys in the shop called to the culprit and said he needed to see something. When the culprit came around the corner their was his prank victim squatting over the culprits open box with his britches down trying as hard as he could to fill it up. He was stopped before he could.
Years before that one practical joker went on vacation and returned to find his box tack welded shut before a zerk was installed and his box pumped full of grease.

I believe it was Heinlein who used Lazurus Long to say practical jokes should be rewarded according to their wit with hamstringing and castration reserved for the wittiest. Or something in that vain.

[Gil Boyd]

Now that takes me back to returning from and exercise in Denmark in 1974 when Anti Tank lads packed the barrels of the Wombats with porno mags and then put the canvas barrel cover over the tip expecting them not to be found..............ha ha they were, first place Customs looked, expecting to find booze of course!!.
The lads blamed the Danes who were mysteriously loaned the guns.........Not

[CINDERS]

After 11 years in construction laboring then 17 years crane operating in the hire crane industry across oil/gas/earthworks/steelwork and tilt up panels then there was the years I was employed as a farm hand (no animals were hurt, some human feelings were) I have some crackers to tell but maybe later.....................