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, 2 replies)

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)