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Subject: Dedicated scruff! Author: Dave P. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:54:46 04/15/05 Fri Jim, I don't remember 'doctoring' my kit in any particular way (perhaps that was why I was always a scruffy twat?). My beret was almost naturally adapted to the 'tanky' look, as being a signaler, I seemed to have a pair of headphones permanently transplanted to my head. The one thing I could never understand though, was the almost manic aversion by the senior NCO's to gaiter elastics and weights. Nothing looked so pathetic as a pair of trousers tucked directly into a pair of gaiters. For f**s sake, how 'niggy' could you get? Applied properly, just covering a half of the gaiter and evened off all round, they looked so smart but for some reason the SNCO'c hated them. I lost count of the times I did guard because of elastics, never mind weights. The only time I tried to slash the peak of my No2 forage cap, it was so obvious that the Orderly Officer took it off my head, pulled the peak out and threw it away and put the cap back on my head. Needless to say, I was charged, paid for a new cap and did about two hundred guards. That was one good thing about us scruffy twats! we did so many guard duties, you smart bastards hardly did any. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]