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Subject: Yankee's Go Home!

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 15:22:38 02/25/05 Fri

To continue on regarding our 'Friendly Fire' Allies cock-ups! I remember being in a Convoy Guard basically to protect Nuke or Dummy Rounds,no one knew at our level what! Removing said items from a secure facility to a field Storage Facility somewhere in the middle of nowhere in conjunction with the Yanks! The training was a pain in the arse,bullshit all the way!..Two Yanks and two Brits in the back of a four-tonner protecting these said items that were chained down to the floors of vehicles. The rest of us in the back of another vehicle travelling behind. Rupert in front in his 'Pinky'leading the way! You get the picture!...Convoy stops for whatever reason out we get and throw a cordon around the Convoy with out-of-date rifles and bayonets fixed! Come's the day of Inspection when the Brass Hats come out of the woodwork to test us on all procedures learn't. So they mock up this Gas Attack...We get into our noddy-suits,the Yanks into their womble gear, all with gas masks on. I was put on guard at the only entry point to the convoy at large. Down comes this American brass hat with all his entourage in tow in the same gear that we had on! Went through all the layed down procedures "Advance and be recognised" and all that crap! This guy lays down his I.D card on the deck and steps back! I pick it up and look at it! No way could I Identify who was behind the gas mask in question! So I puts it back and says "If you want to come through take your gas mask off so I can Identify you!" That got him by the old short and curlies!..The Rupert behind me was going ballistic, thinking his career prospects were going down the tube very rapidly because of me!...If this senior Officer wanted to play silly bugger's then so could I! I wasn't having any of it ! To cut a long story short we passed with flying colours,but no thanks to that Rupert nick-named Capt Chaos so called leader of men! What a joke!....Don't you think?........

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