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Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly a good friend on that first video ..........."now you don't."
Not one man wounded, who entered the whaling station where he had set up his surgical team died........thats the credit down to the man and his medics!
'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 suspect that was a lad from the regiment that took over from us in Hohne.
We only lost one lad and that was in 1976, I believe he was the first soldier to murdered by an M60 machine gun in the province.
I thought you would like to see this, I took it in 1973 and it shows 3 lads from 3 RGJ training 143 Bty RA in Hohne.
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Chosenman thanks for the photo, nice shot of night fire with IWS. Do you know when the tape, was adopted over the traditional scrim and hessian? It seems the norm from 76 onwards. Thanks for sharing these photos, for me it's nice to see them in action. As "my age group" grew up with L96, and I have had the misfortune too miss out on this era.
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Strangely Brown, we only went to Hohne to the Roundhouse NAAFI to get our yellow handbags!
DanL96a1, we were taping our L42's up from early 1980's, but it was probably being done long before my time and was standard practice right up to when they went out of service with us in 1988. In all honesty you didn't miss much. You can ask any guy who trained on the L42 and then experienced the transition to L96 and most don't have a good word to say about it. They were a brut to shoot and they broke down, a lot! My battalion never had the same eight rifles from one month to the next.
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That's a .30 Browning with a BFA that's lost its yellow paint. Mind you, the notion that ANY paint could cope with the heat output of a Browning was pure wishful thinking! We got rid of the UK
's last service Browning .30's when the last Centurion funnies and Ferrets went and a couple of years after that they were used as an 'exercise tool' just to use up the large stocks of blank. GREAT guns and probably the last of the true fitters guns
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That's a .30 Browning with a BFA that's lost its yellow paint.
Yes it is, and he looks like he's fumbling...cover part open and bolt not fully forward. Can't even imagine what's he's doing.
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