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Subject: "If you go down to the woods today"

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 10:54:06 02/24/05 Thu

"Your in for a big Surprise!"....or so,the song goes!. This happened when we were first posted to Fallingbostel in around 1971. Being that we were new to the 'Big Guns'the 'Powers that Be'decided to send the Gun-subs out to the Range area for a spot of 'Familiarization Training'for about three days. So there we were going through the motions bumming around on these steel Monster's. During the day going through all the drills doing 'Dry-firing etc..And also having a 'Cabbie'driving these long barrelled beast's. At night after the senior ranks buggered off back to camp we were left up to our own device's!...Well that only mean't one thing!....Party Time. We used to stash the booze in the well of the Gun.We had come prepared to enjoy ourselves. The Krauts had kindly left stacks of logs to the side of the tracks,so we helped ourselves as you would do!..Time rolled on...Party was going great guns,everybody getting merrily 'pissed' around a blazing log fire!....We noticed some movement about two hundred metres up the track. There was this bunch of Dutch MP's reversing this 'Honnest John' into a tactical 'Hide'in the same bloody wood that we were in!.....Strange we thought! These guys playing soldiers and us lot getting pissed around a roaring log fire. The cheeky bastards even came over and asked us "What were we doing there?".....Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out!....Another sereal situation,one of many you might say!........

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