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Subject: 'Drinking' and Tours of Duty.

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 20:27:48 02/12/05 Sat

Following on from what Terry has said in reply. N.Ireland tours of duty,due to the fact they were'Active Service'or 'Policing Actions'incidenterly so was Vietnam! Where we got fifty-pence extra a day and any amount of 'Comfy-bum'bog paper.Better than the Army crap-paper. The Army boxed clever in them days in giving the lads a bit of luxury,or was it for when the shit hit the fan?....
Booze allowance was two cans of beer per day what I can remember. I can't say that I ever saw any of our lads pissed on the streets. They would'nt dare! We all had too much to loose if our reactions were impaired by alcohol.
The serious drinking was done off duty only. I can remember one tour in particular,in a place called Bally-Kinnler. About the time 'Internment' kicked off in N.Ireland. Had some bloody marvallous nights sitting around tables with the pyramid's of empty beer cans singing like our lives depended on it!...in direct competition with the 'Tick-Tock' Battery or Chayter's seventh Cavalry. Those were the days!....What say you?,,,,,

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