Changing Hedgehog's course thread to funniest insident thread.
One afternoon I spent an afternoon in a bunker in Camp Shamrock as the local DFF decided to shell the HQ for a couple of hours. That night I was speaking with a former team leader of mine and he told me why we had been shelled.
He was on a 77mm mortar course on the piece of grass beside the Stephen Griffin privates mess. It was a Swedish aluminium tube with a quiver base to fire illum bombs. My mate was doing security while the rest of the course went to lunch and here is how he described what happened next.
"An officer came along looking at the mortars and the silver shells (live illum). He then proceeded to wiggle his arse in behind one of the mortars in such a way that I knew instinctively that he was going to do damage. He proceeded to pick up one of the bombs and drop it down the barrel, he seemed highly surprised when it exploded in the air over Total and even more surprised when 2 minutes later the first shell landed at the edge of the camp wall at the engineers yard. "
One afternoon I spent an afternoon in a bunker in Camp Shamrock as the local DFF decided to shell the HQ for a couple of hours. That night I was speaking with a former team leader of mine and he told me why we had been shelled.
He was on a 77mm mortar course on the piece of grass beside the Stephen Griffin privates mess. It was a Swedish aluminium tube with a quiver base to fire illum bombs. My mate was doing security while the rest of the course went to lunch and here is how he described what happened next.
"An officer came along looking at the mortars and the silver shells (live illum). He then proceeded to wiggle his arse in behind one of the mortars in such a way that I knew instinctively that he was going to do damage. He proceeded to pick up one of the bombs and drop it down the barrel, he seemed highly surprised when it exploded in the air over Total and even more surprised when 2 minutes later the first shell landed at the edge of the camp wall at the engineers yard. "
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