Ex Military/Still Serving Thread

[ecain63]

Andy says you went to cadets at 14/15 years old. Thats all.

How was your school reunion a couple of weeks back?

Its a really small world!

[ecain63]

Youve been rumbled Steve, emailing Andy to cover your tracks isnt cool.

[thismonkeyhere]

92-93 STAB

93-11 RN

Some of it was fun.

Edited by thismonkeyhere on Wednesday 25th September 12:34

[dai1983]

Joined RM in 2006 and spent time in Hunter due to a broken arm. Started as a grav and did a tour of Afgan before putting my VMs chit in. Been working on and off at CLR since 2009 with some anti piracy in between.

ecain63 said:

Youve been rumbled Steve, emailing Andy to cover your tracks isnt cool.

RM officer training is more closer to 52 weeks too isnt it? Never heard of a trained rank spending time in Hunter either!

A few years ago I was contacted on Facebook by a girl asking about a lad I was friends with and who had wrapped on week 7. She had met him on POF and he had told her he was in the SBS. She did some digging and found he had told another girl he was a PTI Sgt. She wanted to know the score with him so I told her he was a weirdo and best avoided

[98elise]

Joined the RN fresh out of school in 1982 as a Weapons Engineer (823 so one of the last through Fisgard), left in 1990.

Edit...Just found there are a few websites for ex-Fisgard Tiffs, and spotted a friend of mine in a reunion photo wearing a Pistonheads T-Shirt!

Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 25th September 13:59

Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 25th September 17:19

[Asterix]

1 Year with The Royal Anglians (TA)
6 Years REME (Regs)

During that time I also did the Household Cavalry Ceremonial training, got qualified as both JSDSI & JSNSI (and BASI), 2 Ops and a few other things.

I'll never be a civvy, always an ex-squaddie.

[Panda76]

1 Staffords 92-96.
Short spell,got tired of the bullst that came from a senior officer in the company,I.e the OC disliking me and my mate,hence every time we got put forward for promotion by NCOs' , senior NCOs and plt commander he quashed it. So rather Than being unable to advance a military career and put up with that mong for years we both signed off. He really did need a punch in the face and got close to it at company bbqs where beer was involved.

Short term in Chester,2.5 yrs Ballykinler covering South Armagh, 6-7 months of time back in the UK,6 months Hong Kong before handing over to Blackwatch to do the handover duties, followed by a few months wind down time in the UK before checking out for good.

[shouldbworking]

STAB. Current. PJNCO. SENTA.

Upcoming two weeks not going to be fun!

[BruceV8]

Joined the army in 1987. retired in 2011.

if we're doing full career resumes,

Postings:

1987: Junior Parachute Company, Pirbright.
1988-88: Training Battalion & Depot Royal Army ordnance Corps (RAOC), Deepcut.
1988-92: 42 Ordnance Company RAOC, Colchester.
1992-93: Army School of Ammunition, Kineton. (Corps rebadged to Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) in 93).
1993-96: Base Ammunition Depot, Kineton.
1996-98: 921 Squadron 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD Regiment RLC, Herford & Bielefeld, Germany.
1998-2002: 621 Sqn, 11 EOD Regt RLC, Shorncliffe.
2002-2004. Cyprus Service Support Unit, Akrotiri.
2004-2007: EOD Branch, HQ Northern Ireland,Lisburn.
2007-2011: 621 Sqn, 11 EOD Regt RLC, Northolt.

Tours:

1990-91: Op GRANBY - first Gulf War, Saudi, Iraq and Kuwait.
1991: Op HAVEN - Kurdish relief operation, Turkey and Iraq.
1994: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
1997: Op LODESTAR, Bosnia and Croatia.
2001: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
2002: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
2004: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
2006: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
2007: Op BANNER, Northern Ireland.
2007-08 Op TELIC, Iraq.
2010: Op HELVETICA, Northern Ireland.

Its all very dull in list form, I'll admit. Have a look here insted: www.explosiveordinary.com

I haven't got an Aston Martin, though .....

[ellroy]

STAB 89-91.

RMAS 91.

RE 91-96 (38 Engr Regt, 32 Armoured Regt and 1 Training Regt).

Bruce, you didn't run into Vilayama Nanovo did you, a mate of mine who was EOD on your side of the fence?

[lockhart flawse]

Infantry here. Senior platoon commander in the English army 1981-1984. Which unit was I?

[lockhart flawse]

Infantry here. Senior platoon commander in the English army 1981-1984. Which unit was I?

[petop]

Ex Army here.
Joined 1987 Junior Leaders Regt RAOC.
Then trained as a Petrolem Operator which i only did because the careers bloke showed me a picture of a oil rig and said "you can get a job on them when you finish"!! Well that turned out to be a lie as it would of been easier doing that joining as a Chef!
25 years later after spending time in Bosnia, Falklands, Kenya, America, Cyprus, Germany, Uzbekhistan, Afghanistan, Canada and having a great time all the way through i left 19th July this year.
2 weeks later i start my new job in.........Afghanistan as a civvy!! Based in Kandahar but heavily embedded with the mil so much so i have more clearance as a civilian than i did when i was serving and i get to call a General by his first name!
But i drive a Porsche 911 when im not over here and life couldn't be better.

[Ayahuasca]

lockhart flawse said:

Infantry here. Senior platoon commander in the English army 1981-1984. Which unit was I?

Sealed Knot?

[wolf1]

I'm ex Cavalry.

[CaptiV8ted]

Joined RN in 92 as a WEM(R)
Argyll 93-95 States, AUTEC, lots of TAPS!
Hong Kong as main gate hand for 3 months (awful, truly awful)
OM(EW) on Boxer 96,97 WIGS
Leeds Castle 97,98 Falklands
Conrnwall 98,99 WAGS,
LOM(EW) Montrose 99-2000 STANAFORMED
Tiff's course 00-02
RFANSU 02-04 FT George and Ft Vic, Phalanx, TELIC
SRCC, SMCC 04
HMS Echo as section head 04,05 Gulf, gulf, gulf...

Fell ill 06, booted out medical 08. Left as a POWEA, papers raised, chief's due. Not threaders at all...

[ditchvisitor]

Current serving RAF, rotary through and through!, have been in 7 years...

[grenpayne]

Current serving RAF too, been in for almost 16 years. Had a brief go at flying rotary, but have been flying and instructing on C130s for the majority of the time.

[Octoposse]

Infantry. Hated it (apart from the dressing up and the food).

Got me five years of lucrative and enjoyable employment subsequently (working for Americans) as I could find the Balkans on a map and was thus an expert. Also I could talk to people without pissing them off, an apparently unusual knack.

[mikal83]

Every one of the ships I served on are now razor blades.........bugger.