Ex servicemen

[Monkey Spanker]

You took your Swaro's to the nasty scratchy sand filled desert!!!???
Don't tell me they are issued either!
MS

Once upon a time he says wistfully.......

 

[bobjs]

You took your Swaro's to the nasty scratchy sand filled desert!!!???
Don't tell me they are issued either!
MS

he was looking for long range sand gophers, can't you see the mounds in the distance.

bob.

 

[Harry mac]

Add another screech drinker

(Said with a squint) Screeeeech, the taste of fresh fruit!!!!! LoL.

 

[digger9523]

You took your Swaro's to the nasty scratchy sand filled desert!!!???
Don't tell me they are issued either!
MS

Why not? 10x is much better for spotting "Suspicious characters" than a 4x SUSAT. Spotted IED's and the james blunts that were laying them with those bins as well. They could possibly be credited with saving a life or two, and on the other side of the coin helped Take some of the right ones.

Nasty scratchy sand can be kept away with a case after all. They looked as good at the end of that tour as they did at the start.

Imagine trying to spot some **** creeping around in this sort of terrain with the Mk 1 eyeball or SUSAT:

Sometimes you just have to use what's available to you, and they were mine to use

 

[Monkey Spanker]

Mate, you should send them piccies to Swarovski and tell them how great they are, but you could do with another pair of 8.5 x 42's for stalking!!!
Great advert for them!

 

[Pirate hunter]

Once a Marine always a Marine! - anyone else out there?

I think there's a few bootnecks on here pal.

Atb

Andy

 

[Tackleberry270]

Why not? 10x is much better for spotting "Suspicious characters" than a 4x SUSAT. Spotted IED's and the james blunts that were laying them with those bins as well. They could possibly be credited with saving a life or two, and on the other side of the coin helped Take some of the right ones.

Nasty scratchy sand can be kept away with a case after all. They looked as good at the end of that tour as they did at the start.

Imagine trying to spot some **** creeping around in this sort of terrain with the Mk 1 eyeball or SUSAT:

Sometimes you just have to use what's available to you, and they were mine to use

That will be Safwan Hill, Southern Iraq then! Spent a fair amount of time in that OP myself.

 

[digger9523]

That will be Safwan Hill, Southern Iraq then! Spent a fair amount of time in that OP myself.

REBRO stag! Had some good fun on that mound

 

[Tackleberry270]

REBRO stag! Had some good fun on that mound

That'll be the one. We were colocated with a yank MP detatchment. They seemed to have an endless supply of ammo which I was all too willing to expend through there various weapon systems.

 

[digger9523]

That'll be the one. We were colocated with a yank MP detatchment. They seemed to have an endless supply of ammo which I was all too willing to expend through there various weapon systems.

You were either Telic 2 or 3 then? I used to 'Help' the same yanks get rid of some of that pesky ammo

 

[Tackleberry270]

You were either Telic 2 or 3 then? I used to 'Help' the same yanks get rid of some of that pesky ammo

Telic 1.

 

[Monkey Spanker]

Telic 1 and OP Gramby (1991) for me!!

 

[digger9523]

Telic 1 and OP Gramby (1991) for me!!

You old barsteward! I was in primary school when you were chilling out in Kuwait!

 

[Wilf102]

Left after OP Granby (who thinks up these names anyway!)and nine years. Getting drunk on the Rhine and pretending the Russians were coming and chasing psychopaths in N.I. was a picnic in comparison to those who served afterwards. Compo...gone but not forgotten and golden currency for trading with the Yanks.

 

[bigmick11]

I did 26 1/2 years as an aircraft engine fitter in the RAF, left in 1994.

 

[teabag_46]

I don't want to sound like a Jimmy Saville, but my (current) wife was in primary school when I was 'sunbathing' in Kuwait!

 

[Sika14]

I clocked it as Safwan too, went there a few times

 

[digger9523]

I clocked it as Safwan too, went there a few times

For all the Safwan Hill (Jebel Sanam) vets:

And finally, a scene that anybody that stayed there more than a day will be intimately familiar with:

 

[DaveK]

Compo...gone but not forgotten and golden currency for trading with the Yanks.

Specially on site guard. Phone rings - "hey man, you got any mock turtle soup you wanna trade for some eggs"? Well why not, we're only having a rest guarding some nuclear free concrete.

 

[bobjs]

xl chewing gun and a steel mug, none of those crap green plastic ones.

site guard at 50 missile in heimer was pain-full until mac shot himself in the leg with a smg..................... laugh i wet myself.

bob.

forgot chicken goulash and tined sausages, compo cheese and jam on digestive biscuits dead fly cake and chips cooking on om 13 brake fluid.( made 12 men very very poorly)