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Subject: 'The Army Chitty Culture'

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 11:23:46 04/27/05 Wed

Everything that you did in them days revolved around paperwork of some discription or other. To be excused duties or excused wearing certain items of clothing or boots, or the old favourite of being excused PT was a sought after chitty. One of the hardest ones to obtain used to be the excused shaving chitty! I can remember this junior Officer giving one of the lads a bollocking for not saluting him, never mind that the lad in question had his right arm in a sling at the time! Due to the fact that he had not obtained a chitty from the M.O stating excused saluting and that he had two arms was evident, that this idiot Rupert was going to pursue this matter regardless! Such was the madness of the system when people such as that take things to extremes! I also had a chitty stating excused wearing those hairy KF shirts. I can remember being one of the first to wear these new SD shirts with collars attached, and bloody comfortable they were too! I think that there must have been a Chitty for just about everything within the Army at that time, and if not then some bright spark would have thought one up!...What say you? Even babysitting for one of the pads needed a Chitty obtained through the Battery office, as they couldn't have single soldiers without permission loitering around any quarters area without one!...OMO packets withstanding of course! Hence, the true reason why we did quarters patrolling and not because of any terrorist activity. Most of the extra marital activity was done usually well off limits so to speak, outside of the quarters areas. And the beauty being that you didn't need a Chitty for that! What say you?.........

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Re: 'The Army Chitty Culture'	Jim Martin	11:44:50 04/27/05 Wed