I remember my military ID from 10yrs ago, but then you never forget that.
it's fun catching out wannabe soldiers in the pub, just ask them theirs and watch them fluster

two five 'ZERO' six four six nine four.

(for fucks sake don't say 0, as in oh) beasty beast, not that that happens any more of course.)

oh and the phonetic alphabet.
(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:29, 25 replies)

And backwards
because they'd always expect you to recite your number backwards in the NBC tests with CS pellets.

Also, if someone asks me my service number, there's always a very strong urge to recite it, at volume, with a Sir! or Sgt! at the end.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:34, closed)

I actually typed 'Sir' on the end and deleted it cause I thought people would think I was sad

(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:37, closed)

I
don't think it's actually possible to recite your number without SAH! at the end....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:38, closed)

Had to stop using it as my security number for phone banking
as I was always on the verge of shouting it and asying Sah! Was quite embarrasing when one day I actually mumbled a sir at the end. The young girl at the bank thought I was mad
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:42, closed)

We Had A Guy
in our unit who was immune to CS. Weird as fuck. We'd all be choking and spluttering and he got slightly sore eyes. They kept him in that hut thingy where they do the NBC tests for 30 minutes without a gas-mask and it didn't bother him in the slightest.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:37, closed)

There was always one
Ours was Sgt Mitch Mitchell. Used to sit with his face over the pellets, smugly ignoring everyone else coughing lungs up.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:40, closed)

Yep
We had one of these too.
Whilst the rest of us were going through pissing and shiting drills (remember CS on sweaty bits?), there would be this mong in corner grinning away like he loved the stuff.

I got on so well with my staff sgt that he arranged for the whole sqn to have a cft followed by respirator drills on my last day. I got 200 yards down the road along with everyone else, did a bit of limping and sat out the rest of the cft in the sicky wagon.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 11:04, closed)

Err
I remember my military ID from 30 years ago. And I was only in for 7 months and 1 day. I was fucking useless as a soldier.

24477854 Sig Legless SAH!

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:34, closed)

I'm sure I will too, when I'm your age me old fruit

(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:38, closed)

Huh?
You're a scaly-back as well?
Ah, Signals... The Bullshit Corp.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 11:05, closed)

Signals

Better a scaly-back than a bullet stopper...

"You there! That man! Stop that bullet!"

Infantryman throws himself heroically in front of the Rupert.

Thump!

"Bullet stopped SAH!"

*dies*


We just sat 20 miles behind the action, drinking beer from our fridges, making sure that you all had comms. Well, kind of. The infantry radio of the time was the Clansman. The fuckers never worked.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:08, closed)

Certa Blotto
REMFs FTW!
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:13, closed)

Feckers used to put me out on a Rebro in the middle of nowhere
I didn't mind though, I was away from all the bullshit.
Only problem was that it was on a great big mountain near Pale in Bosnia...
Can't have it all ways.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:29, closed)

er,
they don't have them in the SAS. For security. Yeah.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:37, closed)

I saw
that ninja-edit.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:40, closed)

I've
just calculated that there have been only 586840 soldiers between the first day of my enlistment and the first day of yours. I would have though there'd be more..

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:51, closed)

when did you join?

(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:52, closed)

Feb 1978

( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 9:55, closed)

blimey, I was almost 4ys old,
23rd June 1997
ATR Winchester, Sir John Moore Barracks
(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:02, closed)

.
16 Sigs, Helles Barracks, Catterick
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:05, closed)

I've just found the facebook group for it, memories!!
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15108252335

The latest photo is of me and Phil
(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:20, closed)

My old man..
Was in the forces, based in Catterick before Gibraltar, we lived on Hambleton Crescent, or was it drive? - can't remember, I was only a kid..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:50, closed)

My first married quarter
was 4 Brittania Way at RAF Wildenrath in Germany. The place has since been taken over by a company that builds and tests railway locomotives, but the British street names sit there surrounded by German names as a mute reminder of the cold war. Check it out on Google Maps and you'll see what I mean.
(ianisme, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 14:52, closed)

I remember mine too
and from pretty much the same time!

Of course though as an officer it was shorter (to make it easier for the Ruperts...)

I had a brain freeze one day (think I must have been having some sort of TIA for the medics out there...), and could I fuck remember it? When I visiting another unit for the first time and so looked like a Major Twat, instead of just a Captain Bob.
(jugglinbob Not giving a damn since:, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:41, closed)

My lovely Mum-in-law
Served in WW2, and she still remembers hers. Mind you she's got a memory like an elephant anyways, so I'm not surprised..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 19:23, closed)