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LOOKING FOR AN ARMY TRUCK TO HIRE TOMORROW -12th Sept
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Originally posted by paul g View PostIt actually makes perfect sense, there is no reason for troops to drive hundreds of miles along a motorway in the rain or wet in a TCV to get to a training area. I'd rather the fun police get in the way then have a few soldiers killed in a RTA.
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Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Postget it right folks - we [The British Army] CAN and we DO drive troops in the backs of TCV's (Troop Carrying Vehicles i.e. 4 Tonner / Bedford / DAF / MAN) on normal public roads.
It's just something I saw last year.
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Originally posted by pmtts View PostJust of of curiosity, have they ever used trains?
It's just something I saw last year.
however 'Train Driver' is still an active trade in the British Army with the Royal Logistics Corps and we still have our own trains:
www - Army Train Driver
the Royal Anglian Regiment also have a train named after them!Last edited by RoyalGreenJacket; 23 September 2009, 00:57.
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Imagine being in the Thomas the Tank Engine CorpsThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post30 miles - is that it? been there done that for breakfast - try being in the back of a Bedford from Dover to Edinburgh (total of 490 miles each way) - took us about 13 hours each way from what i remember.Without supplies no army is brave.
—Frederick the Great,
Instructions to his Generals, 1747
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Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Postsometimes we transport vehicles by train in the UK (i've driven my Saxon onto a rail carriage) but i've only ever travelled 'as a unit' by train when we were in Germany headed to Poland, never in the UK.
however 'Train Driver' is still an active trade in the British Army with the Royal Logistics Corps and we still have our own trains:
www - Army Train Driver
the Royal Anglian Regiment also have a train named after them!
There used to be an Ambulance Train in the RAMC (I did a few exercises with them - a strange lot! I believe they are now 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment). ISTR that the engine that pulled it in Germany was rumoured to have been used at Auschwitz!'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostSo do REME, a First Great Western HST.
There used to be an Ambulance Train in the RAMC (I did a few exercises with them - a strange lot! I believe they are now 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment). ISTR that the engine that pulled it in Germany was rumoured to have been used at Auschwitz!
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your not tommy tiernan by any chanceThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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no!'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post30 miles - is that it? been there done that for breakfast - try being in the back of a Bedford from Dover to Edinburgh (total of 490 miles each way) - took us about 13 hours each way from what I remember."Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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"Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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Originally posted by hedgehog View PostImagine being in the Thomas the Tank Engine Corps
average Brit squaddie cannot serve to 60 years old..."Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"
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