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Part o the job description Bob!

Never posted here may be of interest to Pat although this guy is RA the camp starts at 20.00 they feature  the town 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M3pGqZLvbs

Rarely in Roberts Barracks when 7RHA were there, apart from doing the swimming test in the outside swimming pool, when we had to break the thin skin of ice to get in, f,ckin' freezing. We were in Quebec Barracks outside the town, needing taxi rides to go on the piss unlike 7 who were lucky enough to be more or less in the town itself, and also had battery bars, something we were never trusted with for some reason! 🙄 

Most units in my era (BAOR late 60's) had a unit bar, I seem to recall a few fatalities through drink. The last club I was in was "The Turtle club" in Poole no one was using it they may have been on ops 

There were always newspaper articles about Hats dying of alcohol poisoning in Germany, but we never seemed to have a problem. At one point they banned Pernod in all NAAFI bars as that seemed to be the culprit, but anyone with a taste for it could go to the main NAAFI shop on Sedanstrasse and buy a bottle on the ration card. Blackie Robin's (Blackie3 on here) missus was manager there at the time.

Al Baxter a Cpl in A Coy once staggered into my room and collapsed on a bed, and after a while we noticed he'd turned a funny colour and wasn't breathing. He'd swallowed his tongue and was fine after we dragged it out and gave him a few breaths before putting him in the recovery position, but I suppose it could've been worse if he was on his own in his bunk! He once fell over in a hole in the snow on his way back to the billet from a bar tent in Saltau on exercise with the Yanks and their nuclear mines and slept there all night in minus 30 or so. They reckoned that the alcohol content of his blood was the only reason he didn't freeze to death, and as far as I know he's still going today so alcohol's not as bad as some think! 🍺 

I reckon we had the best bar in the brigade, the Aviary.  It was always packed at the w/e with us, mostly reg and other AA's.

spent ABF(1998) week end in 9 Sqn what a night

9 Sqn had a brilliant club Jack, the only thing that pissed me of one ABF Day was when they ruled nobody could come in without a tie. I had to dig in and buy one, knowing I had an old one covered in snot and other fluids which I last purchased in 1966! Twats.

Boosting the squadron's funds never a bad thing though Bob! Had a few good sessions in there myself over the years.

Happy days Pat, a place where you could voice your opinions without fear of the political correct mob !

Same az slaggin the kunts who run the country on ere Bob. 😜 

Free ticket closing ceremony parade then down the pub 

Fine group of Airborne Warriors Jack!

I had a free ticket but...had to parade at the end must have walked 5 odd miles during the day my legs are stiff today no problems doing the cycling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9tWlwWT6ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXD2mv3SQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN007J4DuVU

there are two others 

Good day out that Jack and scoff looked Beautytash!