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I'm looking for photographs and information to add to the site www.62infantry.com from members of the new 62 Infantry battalion. Any photos of the 20th and 21st battalions are welcome (except ones of people getting locked in the mess etc...)
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Stores, I'd say. The Q concerned probably had a fit. Stores are for storing y'know, not for issuing......
On the issue of riot control training, I've been informed by an uncle or 2 that FCA (as it was, way back then *tears well up in nostalgia*) infantry battalions did riot control. Probably due to the fact that the British army were earning their pay doing the same up north, and the amount of PDF sitting on the border meant that the FCA would probably be the force best able to mobilise quickly and in force. Dire straits indeed, or at least it would be if the same happened today.
Stores, I'd say. The Q concerned probably had a fit. Stores are for storing y'know, not for issuing......
On the issue of riot control training, I've been informed by an uncle or 2 that FCA (as it was, way back then *tears well up in nostalgia*) infantry battalions did riot control. Probably due to the fact that the British army were earning their pay doing the same up north, and the amount of PDF sitting on the border meant that the FCA would probably be the force best able to mobilise quickly and in force. Dire straits indeed, or at least it would be if the same happened today.
They got No1s because they were doing a GOH for the Minister for an officers commission parade. See 2*s in No1s made mee sick when I saw them, we had people passing out as corporals shortly before that who had great difficulty getting them.
The same FCA unit in the pic doing riot control training (21 Inf) also used to practice cordon & search operations and road checkpoints (on public roads).
Notice in the number ones pic, there is a two star in number ones!!!
Tut Tut. And i had trouble getting them before my pots. God bless dublin units. Ain't they well looked after.
Trouble, Trouble, I tried to chase trouble but its chasing me.
Trouble, trouble, trouble with a capitol T
do do do do do do do da do do do. etc etc......
Tut Tut. And i had trouble getting them before my pots. God bless dublin units. Ain't they well looked after.
Dublin units still have problems getting No1s. The usual reason for a mass issue is that someone important is coming along, who might notice that the rabble in front of them aren't wearing No1s like they should be.
Originally posted by Bam Bam
I'm in the premier dublin units[7 BN or is it 65 BN], and I'm still waiting. 3+ years now.
Shouldn't that be premier Dublin infantry battalion?
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