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  • #16
    Originally posted by Snacker View Post
    Eh the RDF man???
    When was the last time you put your training to "use"?
    Zing!!!!


    Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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    • #17
      He is a top bloke

      he is not averse to going on the ground with the troops

      and he is not afraid to get his feet wet
      Things 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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      • #18
        I remember reading about a Royal Navy chaplain who was getting posted to the Royal Marines & who went on the All Arms course. The tests call for candidates to carry a rifle, but chaplains don't carry so he had some fitter knock up a crozier the same weight & length as the SLR.
        "The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land, walked back to the water, went back from the sand."

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        • #19
          Really?? I have seen it but can't remember it, been a while. I got the impression they stayed in barracks or camp, but I stand corrected. Fair play to them for doing that
          John Gregson played the part of the Chaplain who lost his comunion set when they landed ina river although in this case I believe they were Glider borne as opposed to Paratroops.
          Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Snacker View Post
            Eh the RDF man???
            When was the last time you put your training to "use"?
            ARPs, assessments, GoH etc

            Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post
            I thought a priest is just a priest with no military training??
            They do a short course in the DFTC (I think it is the one for DE officers). They don't carry weapons.

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            • #21
              The same man has also 4 tours of duty with U.N.I.F.I.L.

              and two NATO Missions under his belt,

              as a matter of interest what overseas service do you have?

              Connaught Stranger.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by DeV View Post
                ARPs, assessments, GoH etc



                They do a short course in the DFTC (I think it is the one for DE officers). They don't carry weapons.
                He did his course in the then CTD(e)

                there were a few Priests and various DE's

                I know one of the lads who trained him.

                There was also a Priest who was in the work experience version of the seminary

                and they put him in with a recruit platoon- he did the whole recruit/3 star training.

                Some of the God botherers are really really good

                while some would attend the offical opening of an email in dress uniform.

                and that lad is a miserable bollix
                Things 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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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post
                  I got the impression they stayed in barracks or camp, but I stand corrected. Fair play to them for doing that
                  i don't think i have ever been on an exercise where a 'Kev the Rev' hasn't visited us in the trenches or been brought in the resupply to visit the troops and dish out the Haribo.

                  i even had one dug-in with me at the end of the runway in the Falkland Islands - praying for each Tornado as it approached for landing, and in Bosnia the padre managed to shepherd the Fijians together to form a choir who later went on to represent the Army in some competition in the UK.

                  they are usually very funny and eccentric blokes of great character. the more military training they do the better in my opinion. let them get stuck in to what we get stuck into.

                  fair play to the Irish DF chaplain / padre in the pic, his uniform also looks Gucci.
                  RGJ

                  ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

                  The Rifles

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by hptmurphy View Post
                    John Gregson played the part of the Chaplain who lost his comunion set when they landed ina river although in this case I believe they were Glider borne as opposed to Paratroops.
                    And then went on "to do God's work"

                    :D

                    That was a class bit in the film
                    I knew a simple soldier boy.....
                    Who grinned at life in empty joy,
                    Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
                    And whistled early with the lark.

                    In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
                    With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
                    He put a bullet through his brain.
                    And no one spoke of him again.

                    You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
                    Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
                    Sneak home and pray you'll never know
                    The hell where youth and laughter go.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                      fair play to the Irish DF chaplain / padre in the pic, his uniform also looks Gucci.
                      was thinking that myself
                      I knew a simple soldier boy.....
                      Who grinned at life in empty joy,
                      Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
                      And whistled early with the lark.

                      In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
                      With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
                      He put a bullet through his brain.
                      And no one spoke of him again.

                      You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
                      Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
                      Sneak home and pray you'll never know
                      The hell where youth and laughter go.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post
                        So priests with in the df can any course they want?
                        I heard one lost a eye during a diving course.?

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Connaught Stranger View Post
                          The same man has also 4 tours of duty with U.N.I.F.I.L.

                          and two NATO Missions under his belt,

                          as a matter of interest what overseas service do you have?

                          Connaught Stranger.
                          None, yet. Only 20 but I intend on a long full time career after collage.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post
                            None, yet. Only 20 but I intend on a long full time career after collage.
                            full time career doing what with who?
                            RGJ

                            ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

                            The Rifles

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post
                              None, yet. Only 20 but I intend on a long full time career after collage.
                              Mate every one of us started as the red arsest recruit,

                              Eoin the Padre is a really good genuine bloke,

                              and your right to bring something you consider odd to the surface

                              after all the DF whether its PDF or RDF is going to be your DF

                              while old soldiers(but handsome farts like moi) have had our time
                              Things 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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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by DeV View Post

                                Originally posted by Snacker View Post

                                Originally posted by Vamp369 View Post

                                I think it's a waste of training resources to train someone who wont put the training to use.
                                Eh the RDF man???
                                When was the last time you put your training to "use"?
                                ARPs, assessments, GoH etc
                                Exactly my point.... The RDF adds nothing useful to the DF!

                                Padres however add vast ammounts to every unit they serve with, except the Naval Service I assume (but I'm open to correction), in respect to morale and cohesion etc. I would genuinely advocate more of them.


                                Originally posted by sofa View Post
                                I heard one lost a eye during a diving course.?
                                +1
                                WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that ex-lovers are really dying for you to ring them at 4am!!

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