Are you ex-military?....no not one of Steve's polls!!

[Lorry thompson]

My grandfather done 26 yr was pto boxed for the army and refereed a couple of fights on tv, got put up for star ref a few times but back in the day Geordies didnt get on tv haha I passed the fitness tests etc for army but bottled it in the end also have small man syndrome and I don't like getting shouted at haha I've worked with a few ex army lads they got into arb as it's a dangerous job and you work as a team but it's a shame when you see these boys on a low wage after the life they've had:(

[JimM]

23 years a Nimrod man. Now awaiting 1st September to find out if they no longer want me. Firmly in the redundancy bracket, cos someone cut up my aircraft with a bigger saw than I have.

 

Just finished the basic chainsaw course at the Scottish School of Forestry by Culloden. Great atmosphere, decent instructor.

 

I took the suggestion on this forum about working for free to gain experience and got a positive response almost immediately. So thanks for that.

[easy-lift guy]

Thanks for your service, I wish you the best for your new chosen field of endeavor.

Best regards

easy-lift guy.

[JimM]

Cheers easy-lift. Your sentiments are appreciated, and not just by me.

[Yorkshireman]

I'm still in armybloke, 2years left (RAF). I think I sent you a message a while back about you going to Belize, did you go in the end. I was there on 25Flt Jun-Nov 2010 it was awsome!!!.

 

I was at Leeming 88-89 3 squadrons of tornados then 11 23 25

[woody1]

RN from 90 to 95. Gulf, NI, West Africa and some other places. Diver/coxswain RIB

[armybloke]

Paul C - Yep I managed a trip out there. i put some of my experience on here under 'My Trip to Belize' if you want a look at it. Awesome tour. Good luck in your last 2 years and hopefully a redundancy package is on the cards to make it a little sweet for you!

[Paul C]

Yorkshireman, worked on 11Sqn as a SE FITT good times. All the Tornados have long gone now though and I occasionally have to pop in there, its changed a lot. Still time moves on, I'm out May next year and with some hard work and a bit of luck will hopefully move into this line of work.

 

Regards

 

Paul

[Pasty Muncher]

I probably should have been. Born at military hospital in Germany, barracks life till I was 13.

Dad Army, older brother Navy, Me at Naval school for secondary ed, me at recruiting office in the strand. Me saying no to the old man and the future career being mapped out in front of me.

 

It didn't turn out to be the end of the world (though Staff Sargeant Humphries would of thought so at the time), I ended up doing this from 16 till now. Not been soooo bad

 

 

Oh what could have been

 

 

 

 

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Naval school? RHS?

 

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[splinters]

im a forces kid. was dragged from one hell hole to another and spent three years in the dump that is Dortmund. my old man ran the jungle school in Belize for a couple of years but i never got to go out there. i was enroled in the TA on my 17 birthday some what against my will. i put up with it for about six months before i got my lip peirced and a big green mohican. they didnt want to keep me after that.