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Subject: 'Dry Firing Blues and Camouflage Boogie'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 13:31:53 04/02/05 Sat

Contrary to popular belief Practice does not make perfect! It only leads to fatique and monotony. Constantly being moved from Gun position to alternate positions were always a pain to endure. Moving into a 'Hide'and night manoeuvres were always stressful to a certain degree. Always had a little 'nip'so to speak of the Brandy not to get drunk you understand, but to keep you going especially when you were on your chinstrap!...I suppose its like an athlete who reaches a peak then is on the downward slope afterwards. Did you ever wonder why a lot of breakdowns occurred with the equipment as some were genuine and others were not as the majority of the Number One's realised that to continue on beasting the lads would not be benifical to nobody so a fault would develope that would ensue that your crew would have to drop out of the exercise for repairs and maintenance of the vehicle. This would conveniently occur not too far from a Guesthouse usually!..The object would be to go non-tactical for a limited period of time to catch up on much needed sleep and recouperation. Another pain used to be Camouflage netting putting it up and taking it down especially when it was wet and filled with broken twigs and the like, catching on all the equipment causing no end of guys losing the plot and fighting and struggling with these nets. Bloody funny watching these antics and hysterical laughter would reverberate around the position. Squaddie humour is priceless!....Don't you think?

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