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Subject: Yanks

Author:
Dave Parker

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Date Posted: 19:36:28 02/24/05 Thu

Talking, as we where, about our colonial cousins I remember the time we went to Vilsec(spelling?) in the American zone when we had the M109. There are a of of memorable events relating to that visit, to mention a couple. Again, in keeping with the toilet theme, I remember the first time I visited their toilets and was confronted with an open-plan room, some 60ft long and lined with urinals. Down the centre of the room was a double row of thunder boxes, back to back and about 10" of space between 'sitters'. Not exactly conducive to a good 'strain' when everybody and his neighbour was watching you. Came in handy though if you had forgotten to bring reading material. No wonder there was a rush for the woods at the first gun position on every exercise.

Another eye-opener, for me, was the size of the portions of food they ate. On one visit to their PX, I ordered a 'T' bone steak and when asked if I wanted the 'works' and replied "yes please", couldn't figure out why I got the funny looks from everybody. I soon saw the reason why when my order was served. A 15" plate covered by a 32oz steak and mounded with chips, onion rings and salad. Enough to feed half the Bty! Needless to say, I didn't finish it and the next shock came with the price, $4.50 (about the equivalent then of DM15 or �1.25. In those days the yanks where paid in dollars, we where paid in DM (roughly 11 to the pound)) which made for some nifty little scams but that's another story.................

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Yanks	Jim Martin	12:09:01 02/25/05 Fri