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You can also see the ladies underwear poking out of the top of the Lycra which is always a giveaway in spotting a bootie.
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You can also see the ladies underwear poking out of the top of the Lycra which is always a giveaway in spotting a bootie.
Velominati
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[QUOTE 4462266, member: 76"]A Marine who can ride a two wheeler eh? I think maybe he was just borrowing the jersey, Marines wouldn't be able to manage balancing on two wheels.[/QUOTE]
The Marines are an okay bunch, its the Paras that I worry about, a finer group of fighting men you will never find but they don't always think things through. A mate of mine is a sergeant in the Paras, he was telling me that they were on exercise once and the Paras were tasked with blowing a bridge, a Para section blew the bridge alright, the problem was that they had crossed the bridge and once it was destroyed they found themselves trapped, they had forgotten to cross back over and return to their platoon. The platoon sergeant was stood on the opposite side of the river yelling at them asking them how they intended to get back....I don't know if the Paras have a cycling team but I would imagine that if they did they would cycle from point A to point B in a straight line, if anything got in their way they would simply cycle through it, garden walls, fences, houses etc.
A few seconds after the Para cycling team passed through Sutton.
The Marines are an okay bunch, its the Paras that I worry about, a finer group of fighting men you will never find but they don't always think things through. A mate of mine is a sergeant in the Paras, he was telling me that they were on exercise once and the Paras were tasked with blowing a bridge, a Para section blew the bridge alright, the problem was that they had crossed the bridge and once it was destroyed they found themselves trapped, they had forgotten to cross back over and return to their platoon. The platoon sergeant was stood on the opposite side of the river yelling at them asking them how they intended to get back....I don't know if the Paras have a cycling team but I would imagine that if they did they would cycle from point A to point B in a straight line, if anything got in their way they would simply cycle through it, garden walls, fences, houses etc.
A few seconds after the Para cycling team passed through Sutton.
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Ajax Bay
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Think it more likely any cycling 'booties' will be going 'Commando'. This would not be a 'giveaway' in lycra wearing cyclists as they(we)'re all at it, or pay the saddle soreness price. It did take me several weeks/rides to persuade a new to cycling Royal Marines retired Brigadier that he really, really should not be wearing pants under his new cycling shorts and if he continued to, he'd 'pay' for it. His daughter's corroboration was key to success, and together they completed end-to-end this spring.
Velominati
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[QUOTE 4462943, member: 76"]They would have loved that. I was involved in a situation once when we were firing artillery rounds over the Paras, a slight miscalculation meant that instead of falling a safe 200m or so in front of them, we were shelling about 50-75m ahead of them. One of the officers made everyone stand up so they could experience proper excitement 
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Those Paras are a remarkable bunch, I did hear that when the Paras were on convoy heading through Bosnia, they came upon a road block, the Bosnian guards that were manning the check point decided to give the CO of the paras a hard time, a Para from Glasgow (I won't name him here) climbed out of the truck, walked up to the Border guards and head-butted the biggest guard, he knocked the guard out cold. He just climbed back into the truck and reported to the CO that they were now allowed through, job done.
Cheddar, that's down my neck of the woods, a cracking place with some nice roads. I guess you watched the Tour of Britain head through there.
[/QUOTE]Those Paras are a remarkable bunch, I did hear that when the Paras were on convoy heading through Bosnia, they came upon a road block, the Bosnian guards that were manning the check point decided to give the CO of the paras a hard time, a Para from Glasgow (I won't name him here) climbed out of the truck, walked up to the Border guards and head-butted the biggest guard, he knocked the guard out cold. He just climbed back into the truck and reported to the CO that they were now allowed through, job done.
Cheddar, that's down my neck of the woods, a cracking place with some nice roads. I guess you watched the Tour of Britain head through there.
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Ajax Bay
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Apochryphal? I can find no record of either 2 PARA or 3 PARA having been on operations in Bosnia.
subaqua
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aaah reminds me of the old joke about a Para on his wedding night and not knowing what to do.
calls his dad and he says put the hardest thing on your body where she pees.
10 minutes later his dad gets a phone call and his daughter in law asks .
how do we get your sons head out of the toilet pan.
we have 1 or 2 ex-paras working for us, greatest respect for any armed forces member who throws themselves out of a servicaeble plane into enemy gunfire !
generally very quiet and unassuming until they get poked by the wrong person.
subaqua
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no definitley wearing ladies undies. only take what you need in't it. so why they can get dresses onboard subs I will never know . thats from a submariner ( not me I hasten to add- I joined Crabair )
Ajax Bay
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Velominati
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Para regiments have specialist troops, Path Finders, not everything that they do is in the public domain. I do know that 2 Para were in and out of that part of the world and that 3 Para formed part of the 16th Air assault Brigade, I think I'm right in saying that the 16th AAB were over there. There is also the 4 Para, reserve regiment, those guys find themselves involved in all sorts of conflicts. It could be that they were posted to Kosovo rather than Bosnia. It could have even been a UN convoy, I only know what I was told..
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Velominati
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Do you ever visit the site ARSSE, Army Rumour Service, they have a very funny spoof write up on the RAF all done wiki style. Its called arssepedia https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/The_Royal_Air_Force#The_Great_War
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subaqua
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That is brilliant. ARSSE is a great site .
Either local lore or reality I am unsure, but...
Allegedly there were two young Naval Officers who had built and were flying an aircraft at Fort Grange in Gosport (now HMS Sultan)
When they started looking at the use of aircraft they were the only service aviators, so the decision was made to send prospective pilots down to Fort Grange to,learn from the Navy Pilots
So the Royal Navy is the Father of the Army Flying Corps and later the Royal Flying Corps, and Fort Grange the "Home" of the RAF
Allegedly there were two young Naval Officers who had built and were flying an aircraft at Fort Grange in Gosport (now HMS Sultan)
When they started looking at the use of aircraft they were the only service aviators, so the decision was made to send prospective pilots down to Fort Grange to,learn from the Navy Pilots
So the Royal Navy is the Father of the Army Flying Corps and later the Royal Flying Corps, and Fort Grange the "Home" of the RAF
Velominati
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The Royal Flying Corps was officially formed on May 13th 1912 and was part of the British Army. Its first commander was Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson and it was spilt into two parts. One part was the Military Wing (of the Army commanded by Major Sykes) while the other was the Naval Wing (of the Navy and commanded by Commander Samson). By 1914, the Naval Wing was put under the direct control of the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Air Service was formed.
The first pilots were indeed from the Navy, there were four of them, they did their training at a private aero club (Isle of Sheppey, Kent) because formal military pilot training wasn't available in the early days. This all means that the earliest pilots were from the Navy but were serving under the army in the RFC. All three services could lay claim to having the first pilots. In my humble opinion, the credit for military flight goes to the Army as the RFC was formed from their ranks by the observers and from the engineers in those rather dangerous hydrogen filled observation balloons.
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Chrisz
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Matelots galore! Lots of sailor boys around but any from the Mens dept of the RN? If so have a look at http://www.royalmarinescycleclub.co.uk/ if you fancy cycling without the saltys
