retired_dawn12302

Yeah, those Septics certainly know how to do the low-level stuff. :thup:

'Course, they can do loops in the Lynx, you know ?

retired_ks reddy

No pilot ever tried that with us. Thank god they don't have armoured doors seperating crew and passengers, eh?

retired_ks reddy

"Army Air Corps pilots play an amusing game when in the air which involves trying to make their door gunners involuntarily fall out of the aircraft; how they laugh as the grunting neanderthal on the GPMG plummets to his death through the fluffy white clouds, But Lynx pilots are usually fat and full of wind and struggle to do anything other than fly in a straight line therefore no gunner has ever met his maker in this manner."

retired_dawn12302

A looping Lynx.

retired_ks reddy

"Army Air Corps

Truly the creme de la creme of the British Army. Only the best can aspire to join this Corps where they will spend their career figuring out how to spend their vast amounts of flying pay and beating off the women.... (see Send her an AAC beret)

The above is indeed true although Door Gunners and sigs NCOs are the most succesful with the ladies and boast bigger trunks and are far better dancers :-)

Originally formed in WW2 as Air OP and Air Liaison Flights with RAF groundcrew and Royal Artillery pilots/observers, they took over the AAC title from the war grouping of SAS, The Parachute Regiment and Glider Pilot Regiment and became either the "Flying Soldiers" or the "Army's Air Force" - no-one is quite sure, or possible even cares.

For most of the last five decades they have been kept afloat by tranches of dashing, handsome, devil-may-care young volunteers from the Infantry and The Royal Armoured Corps, who have done their "bird" and then returned home to the real army chastened and a tad depressed. The AAC still holds the Army's record for the highest number of officers and SNCO's (as a function of overall manning size) who have been cashiered or otherwise disciplined/"admonished without tea & biscuits" for corruption, bribery, lying and/or thievery - beating even the Household Cavalry (District Champions 1899-1945)"

retired_ks reddy

Bloody lunatic things. :herman:

retired_justin05

Yeah, there were fantastic prospects for school leavers in Southampton in 1986, just as Vospers shut and the construction industry jacked it, and Maggie stopped dole for the under 18s. I sold pies for a bit from the back of a van on St Mary's market, but I couldn't really see a career forming there.

Many of my cohorts were slung out of childrens homes at 16, only for their dole to be stopped. WTF were they supposed to do? The good/lucky ones managed to join the infantry. The rest of the poor bastards ended up in the AAC.

As for those who join today, it may surprise you to know that the recruiting office rather plays down the bummers and people sort of expect that in modern Britain working for the government means decent treatment. Ah, the blissful ignorance of youth. </BLOCKQUOTE>

So you're all a bit thick then? If thick people were getting shafted in any other scenario you'd say tough so quit the whinging cos it's thick soldiers.

retired_dawn12302

Slander

retired_ks reddy

I'm not whinging, much of the UK may have been pretty dismal in the mid 80s but it was still a shitload better than most of the planet.

As for joining up yes, you get treated like crap. Sometimes there's a good reason for it and nobody minds, other times there's no reason at all for it and getting the hump is pretty natural I'd say.

The plus side of playing with machine guns, rockets and huge armoured vehicles makes up for a lot in my book.

retired_ks reddy

Were you blessed with razor sharp Rifles-like wit, you'd know it was actually libel.