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Originally posted by Goldie fish View PostHow many times a year are they issued to crows?
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Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Postwell you could say about 14,000 times a year because that is how many we recruited into the British Army last year alone
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Originally posted by Goldie fish View PostYou take crows now? Have you no standards?
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Keep it on topic. The next person to post about anything other than a Ford Mk6 armoured car in this thread will get lots of points - and then I'll go look at some of their recent posts and find an excuse to give them even more points. The crap ends now.
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can I mention the Soldier wearing the Cavalry Collar patches on his fatigue shirt..slightly unusual. Any one notice other corps doing something similar?Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe
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"Decorated cavalry corps veteran Art Magennis DSM gives an illustrated first-hand account of fighting in .303 Vickers-armed 4x2 Ford armoured cars against more powerfully armed M8 'Greyhound' 6x6 armd cars in Katanga, Congo, in 1961 as part of the ONUC (UN) mission. The Ford Mk VI armoured car was an updated version of the WWI .303 Vickers-armed Rolls-Royce armoured car. It was designed by the Irish Cavalry Corps and built in Carlow, Ireland in 1941.
Conversation recorded in Art's house in Dublin in 2013. Art was born in Ardglass, Co. Down in 1919. He served in the Cavalry Corps, Irish Defence Forces, from 1940 to1979. Art died on 12/2/2019 in his hundred year.
For more see: 'Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo' by Michael Kennedy and Art Magennis (Four Courts Press, 2014)"
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Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View PostBrave men, going to war in such appalling vehicles, when postwar Europe was crawling with cheap, available and much better vehicles than the Fords. Imagine being intimidated by a 37mm gun, nearly two decades after Ww2.
Remember we got Comet tanks in 1960! A tank that was good in 1945 but by 1960 was well past it use by date. As you said post-1945 there was tons of equipment going cheap, not just armoured vehicles. We took Flower class whalers which where only ever intended as a stop-gap vessel while half decent sloops and frigates where available, enough said!
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Originally posted by EUFighter View PostBut made in Carlow!
Remember we got Comet tanks in 1960! A tank that was good in 1945 but by 1960 was well past it use by date. As you said post-1945 there was tons of equipment going cheap, not just armoured vehicles. We took Flower class whalers which where only ever intended as a stop-gap vessel while half decent sloops and frigates where available, enough said!Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe
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