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Subject: Initiative Tests Author: Dave P. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:08:05 05/09/05 Mon Does anyone remember those 'Initiative Tests' we used to get sent on, when things got a bit 'slow'? I have a vague memory of one such test that must have taken place fairly early in 1966. I can't remember a lot about it but I do remember that Collin Harris and myself were paired up to do various tasks. The trouble is, I also remember doing an initiative test as a boy soldier but I can't distinguish the tasks that I remember being given, between the two. Does that make sense? What I do remember about the test that Collin Harris and I undertook, is that it led us to spending a night as guests of a German Submarine Base at Kiel. The only accommodation that they could fit us into, was a cell in their guardroom but they, kindly, left the door open for us and kept us pretty much entertained, well into the wee small hours. The next morning they took us off to their cookhouse for breakfast before setting us on the road again. We helped ourselves to a cup of coffee and a couple of slices of hard black bread, which we tucked away in haste, ready for the cooked bit (you know, eggs, bacon, fried bread, tomatoes etc!) only to be very disappointed to find that that was IT! I seem to recall that, as we had no money and were starving by mid-day, we abandoned the exercise and headed straight back to Lippstadt for a square meal. The journey back was greatly assisted by us getting a lift with a German Kamikaze Pilot in training. He was driving a Porsche, 2 seater, and I was unfortunately squeezed into the space behind the driver. He took great delight in demonstrating the acceleration of his beast by pulling out into the left hand lane, suddenly and usually when a bloody great truck was coming the other way, and 'racing' it to the next gap in the traffic. I think that's when I got my first grey hairs!.................... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]