Hard to Believe

Posted by: @bob9739

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Hard to believe that anyone would want to go to war in this! Yet in it's day it was cutting edge technology.

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No way would you get in one of those, tanks and subs are def out, thank fukk the Airborne didn't have any subs.

No fukkin wonder thi named the fukker after a watter tank!

Half the crews died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the internal engine and exhaust before reaching a battlefield! Now of course they've got the latest Ajax APC that they paid some firm billions to produce and it causes hearing loss in the driver and crew along with back injuries from its crap suspension system, but the MOD insists that it's a 'world beating design' and refuse to cancel it!

It's always the same Pat, those who don't experience it don't know what the poor sods that do have to live with later in life. Mind my hearing is crap these days I put that down to using firearms without ear protection, someone on here I believe said you can claim for it, but I've never got round to it. Where do you start?

If you're a British Legion member talk to your branch health rep or similar Bob. They'll usually sort it for you, but be aware the MOD will do its damndest to say it's just age related degeneration. There should be a record of your hearing test when you joined and left the army which would show any hearing loss registered at the time though. Whenever I went to see about my war pension with a RBL rep they told me they would up my pension only if I signed my hearing loss away, which I did but asked them why. They claimed I only had 16% hearing loss which didn't meet their threshold, so I asked what system of measurement they used as when I joined I was H1 in both ears and on leaving I was H4 in my left and H3 in my right, which as the system only goes from 1 to 4 by my understanding it meant 75% loss in one ear and nearly 100% in the other. They refused to tell me their system but upped my pension from 30% to 40% so I was happy enough, but was later told I shouldn't have signed to say I would never claim! The average one off payment is about 8 grand, so worth looking at for anyone who served when the little pink ear plugs were on issue, and some young Maureen recently got hundreds of thousands after being 'forced' to engage in a live firing exercise with 'inadequate' protection!

I claimed in the early 90s and gorra one time payment o 2k, dint know owt about it till one o the lads teld mi at the PRA.

Cheers for that, I better join the Legion quick, Pat I will ask your old buddy Max Houghton he should put me right as to where I go from here! 👍 

If he can hear you of course! 😜 

Talking of really, really, old things, what happened to Pete?

Dunno, he was absent from Brecon as well!

Hope he,s OK.

Has he gone onto Facebook and deserted us then?

 Fukkfacebook? Daves downfall! 🤐 

There are many of us Dave, your not alone there mate, If you can't express yourself why bother with it? Get more joy from a cracked piss pot! 😐