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[RAB]

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Hair?

[treeman]

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I remember the boots squeaking when walking on the lino.
When getting on parade, the stamping just outside the front, to ensure your og's covered your elastics

I still stamp my feet when I get out of the car, to make sure my trouser bottoms are not hung up on the back of my shoe; making me look a divvy when I'm walking round Asda. Well, less of a divvy than usual.

[standinthedoor]

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Do a lot of distance walking over the Pennine, bit dodgy in freezing weather, came across an old guy couple of years ago who was dazed and wandering about, gave him a hot drink and put space blanket round him and called local mountain rescue (well police did) had him off in about 1 hour, he had left his bergen on the moors when he started to feel ill, so I could not find any means of ident on him. Came down and thought same could happen to me so had some dog tags made with essential info on, blood group, contact number, my home address, unlike the army dog tags i do not need one for mi body and one for mi body bag, just one disc, wear it when I walk or run, hardly leaves mi neck, only cost £6 including para cord. Army had some sensible stuff, also put mi compo can opener on cord if a full day out. Airborne or what?

[trubrit2411]

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Do a lot of distance walking over the Pennine, bit dodgy in freezing weather, came across an old guy couple of years ago who was dazed and wandering about, gave him a hot drink and put space blanket round him and called local mountain rescue (well police did) had him off in about 1 hour, he had left his bergen on the moors when he started to feel ill, so I could not find any means of ident on him. Came down and thought same could happen to me so had some dog tags made with essential info on, blood group, contact number, my home address, unlike the army dog tags i do not need one for mi body and one for mi body bag, just one disc, wear it when I walk or run, hardly leaves mi neck, only cost £6 including para cord. Army had some sensible stuff, also put mi compo can opener on cord if a full day out. Airborne or what?

You probably saved the old blokes life Wig. Don't take long to die in the cold neever. As well we all know.

We get a ton die here in the desert. About four years ago my son's mate left a party of buddies and walked out of view round a couple of cactus. Got lost. Musta got disorientated Search party found him two or three days later under a bench at a picnic area not far away. Dead of dehydration. He was a nice lad about twenty eight. Thought of him out there dying hurt my lad. Secret to getting out alive is ....Fire. Smoke. The ability to create fire and a smoke column is crucial. Thats why you need paper hankies and a box of matches on you. If you are in a car. Burn your spare. No spare and spanners. Burn the car. They will come. (In a civvy area anyway.)

[standinthedoor]

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You probably saved the old blokes life Wig. Don't take long to die in the cold neever. As well we all know.

We get a ton die here in the desert. About four years ago my son's mate left a party of buddies and walked out of view round a couple of cactus. Got lost. Musta got disorientated Search party found him two or three days later under a bench at a picnic area not far away. Dead of dehydration. He was a nice lad about twenty eight. Thought of him out there dying hurt my lad. Secret to getting out alive is ....Fire. Smoke. The ability to create fire and a smoke column is crucial. Thats why you need paper hankies and a box of matches on you. If you are in a car. Burn your spare. No spare and spanners. Burn the car. They will come. (In a civvy area anyway.)

Good idea if I burn summat to attract attention, is it ok if I burn some other c**ts car?

[trubrit2411]

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Well wig, if there's other cars around you ain't in that much trouble.... Plus there water up on the moors and it never gets 114 degrees does it ?.... so you got a bit more time.

[standinthedoor]

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Well wig, if theres other cars around you ain't in that much trouble.... Plus it never guts 114 degrees up on the moors does it ?.... so you got a bit more time.

F**k!!

[trubrit2411]

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Here you go Wig...One of many... I remember this. USMC. Never figured this out. Lad made it to within two miles from camp when he expired

"1st Lt Allen Lawson, a native of Flint, Michigan, was assigned the task of posting road guards on the night of August 30, 1988, along the route position of a battalion night movement exercise. Lawson disobeyed the order to place road guards in pairs, got lost, forgot where he had placed LCpl Rother, and upon the completion of the exercise failed to mention that Rother was missing, as did two sergeants responsible for LCpl Rother, Sgts Thomas Turnell and Christopher Clyde. It was over 40 hours before anyone in the battalion knew, or said, that Rother was missing. Several searches were launched with over 1,000 Marines on foot, helicopters, and thermal imaging gear. Rother was not carrying a map or compass, had very little water, and weighed only 135 lbs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rother_incident

[Pat Harley]

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Going to the other extreme,I was left lying in a ditch for 3 days,after being clipped by a car in the fog,shortly after parachuting into an exercise in Germany November '79.Knocked unconcious I woke covered in snow,and unable to move due to a damaged back.At the conclusion of the task,I was able to attract the attention of a bunch of Hats passing the end of the road in their 432's by firing my GPMG.Shipped by chopper to Rinteln hospital,I got back to 3 Para a few days later,to find they were trying to charge me with being AWOL!Because a top Medical Corps General from England was on the exercise,and asked questions about why I hadn't been found sooner,the powers that be in Battalion had concocted a story that I had dumped my gear in a farmers barn,and gone off to Hamburg on the piss!Luckily the American major who was OC A Coy at the time saw the absurdity of it,and quashed the charge,but no idea what they told the General!3 days lying under several inches of snow in minus temperatures has ensured that I'm still immune to cold though!

[treeman]

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Well Pat, after a harrowing ordeal like that, it's now understandable why you like to keep plenty of bodyfat around your slim frame. Nowt to do with being a glutton after all.

[trubrit2411]

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Pat...Its a wonder you did not freeze to death. Must have been a bastard.

[Kit Karson]

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I started a drunken ...

[Don the Mod]

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The snow insulated you.

[Pat Harley]

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Correct Don,if I'd been laying out on the ground with no covering of snow,instead of covered in it down in the shallow ditch,I'd have been an icicle by the time they found me.The best of it was,each morning a farmer passed on a tractor,towing a trailer of turnips for his cattle.My frantic waving and shouting only resulted in a wave back,and a friendly "Guten morgen" from him!My defence when marched into the Yank OC's office was,"If I was meant to be pissing it up in Hamburg,go back to that junction tomorrow morning,and meet the retard farmer,who saw me 3 mornings on the trot,and figure out how I got the 300 kms from Hamburg to there each day!"Case dismissed!

[Dave Burgess]

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Reight about the insulation qualities of snow. Az tha seen them bin lids in snow block built igloos runnin around as healthy az owt wearing fukk all burra smile.