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Subject: JLRRA 'The Power behind the throne'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 14:48:37 04/20/05 Wed

For a time at Bramcote I was suckered into driving the C.O about, as it was put to me that this was a step in the right direction for promotion. Plus the opportunity to travel all over the country. Bombing up and down motorways had some advantages. The travelling expenses and overnight claims would come in very handy. I've always thought that Rank you wear and Respect you have to earn! This officer abused all privileges and perks associated with his Rank as far as I was concerned. His lady wife was something else entirely. You know the type, used to fart through silk! She had him by the old short and curlies. Whatever she wanted she got, including me at her beck and call, running her and her cronies about on shopping expeditions in the staff car no less! The colonel was a strange and uncommunitive type to a degree. He once asked me to go to the stables across from Camp and pick up a couple of bags of manure in the staff car! When asked what he wanted them for! He replied "I'd like them on my tomatoes" To which I replied "Really Sir, I prefer salad cream on mine"...This man had no sense of humour whatsoever!
I once had to explain to this man that I was his driver and not his batman, gardener, waiter or chief cook and bottle washer, and whatever I did for him beyond my duties was a courtesy not to be abused. I don't think anybody else had ever had the balls to speak to him like that! It was something that needed to be said afterall, I was a soldier an not a skivvy! Somethings are well beyond the call of duty!......Don't you think?

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Re: JLRRA 'The Power behind the throne'	Dave P.	15:15:04 04/20/05 Wed