| Subject: Cam nets and digging! |
Author:
Dave Parker
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Date Posted: 19:58:44 04/02/05 Sat
Jim, I too, used to hate bloody camouflage nets. When I left school at fifteen and joined the Junior Bleeders, my Dad brought me a gold signet ring. On one exercise, during a bitter cold winter, the ring cracked. I only found out when, erecting a cam net, the ring became entangled in the scrim and it was pulled off my finger, with the accompanying damage to the said digit. I still wear the ring today (though it's a lot thinner) and it's still broken! though the finger, happily mended well. I have to admit that camouflaging a Saracen was a lot easier than a Gun but, I still cursed the manufacturers for all the little bits that where guaranteed to snag on the net.
Another chore I hated was DIGGING! Be it a gun pit or a slit trench, it seemed as if we had just finished it and we would be off on another move. I never thought for one minute that a slit trench would save us from much harm in time of conflict, until that time, I mentioned before, of the Divisional shoot. When I saw the impact area afterwards and was told that that was a typical bombardment as experienced by troops in the Great War and WW2 and that the majority of troops, if well dug-in, survived! I was a convert. In fact, I spent the majority of my twenty first birthday, sitting in a slit trench, half filled with cold water, persisting down, freezing and half starved (well it felt like I was half starved!) singing to myself, "I'm twenty one today, twenty one today...................".
As I write this post, it's just been announced that the Pope has lost his fight for life. I'm not a religious person but I salute the passing of a very great man. He fought the good fight to the bitter end. Sad.
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