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glyn · 09-17-2006, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TopHatter

Glyn,
A couple of things.

First of all, welcome to the board

Thank you. I bet you were worried for a while, wondering if I hailed from Florida, or some other frightful place.
Glad to see we have another military person here. Can you tell us a little bit about your service?

Well, I started off in the RAF back in nineteen-canteen. After training on Provosts and Vampires I went on to Hunters. For reasons I needn't go into here (because I would look like the idiot I was accused of being) I was invited (?) to leave the RAF. I went back to college but couldn't settle back into civilian life. Joined the Army as a ranker. Served with the 1st Royal Tank Regt (the first in the world - eat your heart out Yanks!) on Centurion MBTs and Ferret Armoured Cars. Trained as an Army Air Corps pilot, and then transferred to the AAC. Slowly gained promotion, finally getting commissioned (largely due to my great physical beauty, as I had precious little talent). Retired of extreme old age and infirmity after serving over much of the world. Was then in the Intelligence services for a few years. Got fed up and retreated back to my home town of Penzance in Cornwall where I started an Antiques shop specialising in militaria and nauticalia. It was fun when I was fighting for survival, but the shop got too profitable and less fun, so I sold up after 9 years and moved to the countryside. In fact I live in a farm built in 1744, and thus quite modern in this part of the world.

Second, I don't think that RustyBattleship's remark was directed specifically and/or solely at you.

That's bloody disappointing. I enjoy the occasional bout of invective.

Oh, and you wouldn't mind toning down your point size would you, it's just a tad bit intimidating.
Very nice color though

As you can see, I attempt to be agreeable no matter how strange and peculiar the request. This is not to say that I always comply, or succeed even when I do try. Other than my innate modesty, I would say that my near infallibility is my principal characteristic. Oh, and charm.

**TopHatter** · 09-17-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by glyn

Thank you. I bet you were worried for a while, wondering if I hailed from Florida, or some other frightful place.

Not really no, it's pretty obvious from your profile that you're one of those dreadful Pirates of Penzance.

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Originally Posted by glyn

Served with the 1st Royal Tank Regt (the first in the world - eat your heart out Yanks!)

No need to do any eating of hearts, some of us colonials actually know who the Father Of The Tank is...even know a bit about him.

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Originally Posted by glyn

That's bloody disappointing. I enjoy the occasional bout of invective

Oh I should quite agree, a good-natured brawl is always a laugh...unfortunately it can turn ugly pretty fast, especially with a new member such as yourself doing the poking.

And thanks for the smaller point size

Anon · 09-17-2006, 11:58 AM

So Glyn are you an "Air Force Type" or an Army tanker?

glyn · 09-17-2006, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by M21Sniper

So Glyn are you an "Air Force Type" or an Army tanker?

Well dear heart, having been both in my time, I have the luxury of switching allegencies at the drop of a hat. If pressed, I will have to say that flying was always the great love of my mis-spent life, but I did enjoy my time in armour in a lopsided sort of way (even though you get tired and filthy, amass bruises and miss meals etc). All in all, I can only say that my service days, whether spent wearing blue or khaki, were the best of my life. Service humour is unlike any other ( with the possible exception of gallows humour) and the friends you made then are still friends today.Service people are a breed apart in my book. Last week I went to Scarborough in Yorkshire for the 1 RTR re-union. It was as though I had never left, and it was wonderful to see so many dear faces after all the years. What civilian life lacks in these grey PC days is adventure and esprit de Corps.

RustyBattleship · 09-17-2006, 17:17 PM

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Originally Posted by glyn

Well dear heart, having been both in my time, I have the luxury of switching allegencies at the drop of a hat. .[/i]

Aha. Another guy, like me, who can't make up his mind. I worked for the US Navy for 39 years and (for berthing and foreign commissary services had the rank of Lieutenant Commander). But in my earlier years I was in the National Guard for 5 1/2 years. One of my MOS's was Tank Gunner (As well as truck driver, auto mechanic, driving instructor and armorer). I enjoyed the driving part better than the shooting believe it or not. People couldn't believe an M-41 Walker Bulldog could pull a "Brodie" until ***** (a driver from another company) and I showed them how.

Oh, for you non hot-rodders, a Brodie is forcing the rear end of the vehicle to skid as you make a sharp turn. When you do it with a tank, it sends up a cloud of dust big enough to hide in, which is why we practiced it.

As for flying, after divorcing my first wife I took flying lessons and did pretty good with Cessnas but never went to anything bigger. But I'm a horrible passenger on the big jets especially when you are on a 747 bouncing through a storm and in one downdraft the stewardesses went weightless.

RustyBattleship · 09-17-2006, 17:21 PM

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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship
If you only WANT to know, out of idle curiosity, we will NEVER give you a straight or honest answer.

Does this mean you've been telling lies about BB's.....

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I'll never tell. Especially since the truth is stranger than fiction and less believable than lies.

RAL's_pal? · 09-17-2006, 18:44 PM

"One of my MOS's was Tank Gunner (As well as truck driver, auto mechanic, driving instructor and armorer). I enjoyed the driving part better than the shooting believe it or not."

I guess some people show more ill effects than others, in riding around in a tank without a helmet, eh?

Ready for the picnic Comrade? Have you hired the slave labor for unloading the "merchandise?"

RustyBattleship · 09-17-2006, 19:36 PM

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Originally Posted by RAL's_pal?

"One of my MOS's was Tank Gunner (As well as truck driver, auto mechanic, driving instructor and armorer). I enjoyed the driving part better than the shooting believe it or not."

I guess some people show more ill effects than others, in riding around in a tank without a helmet, eh?

Ready for the picnic Comrade? Have you hired the slave labor for unloading the "merchandise?"

That's true about no helmet. The Army had discontinued the leather football helmet worn in WW II. The Mk-1 Steel Pot was useless as it wouldn't fit over our earphone headsets. We bought some suplus jet fighter pilot helmets and tried to adapt the Army earphones and microphone to them but not all of us were electronically enough inclined to make it work right. So we usually just turned our Ridgeway caps backwards and squashed it down with the head set.

You could always tell who were tankers because of the way the Ridgway hat was squashed.

As for the picnic, I got a guy who lives one block from me that said he will help me load up if he is home. There are usually people there to help unload and reload.

Unloading will be hectic as I'm leaving the following Monday morning for another inspection of the Iowa in Benicia.

RAL's_pal? · 09-17-2006, 23:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

As for the picnic, I got a guy who lives one block from me that said he will help me load up if he is home. There are usually people there to help unload and reload.

Who is going to help you unload the other "stuff" you were planning on selling in that other "location" after the picnic? "Pssst, buddy, want to buy some pictures?"

We used to have a former tank captain in our shop, but it wouldn't be fair to compare him against anyone or anything. He used to hang out at MTC all the time and when he finally left the yard, at least one account was "light."

Dreadnought · 09-18-2006, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

That's true about no helmet. The Army had discontinued the leather football helmet worn in WW II. The Mk-1 Steel Pot was useless as it wouldn't fit over our earphone headsets. We bought some suplus jet fighter pilot helmets and tried to adapt the Army earphones and microphone to them but not all of us were electronically enough inclined to make it work right. So we usually just turned our Ridgeway caps backwards and squashed it down with the head set.

You could always tell who were tankers because of the way the Ridgway hat was squashed.

As for the picnic, I got a guy who lives one block from me that said he will help me load up if he is home. There are usually people there to help unload and reload.

Unloading will be hectic as I'm leaving the following Monday morning for another inspection of the Iowa in Benicia.

Dick is she still tied pierside is she tied up beside another vessel... Can you post any pics?

RustyBattleship · 09-18-2006, 18:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Dick is she still tied pierside is she tied up beside another vessel... Can you post any pics?

I took some 35 mm slide shots of her and even if I used digital I don't know how to post pics on this board. Too many other things to do such as printing out the last 4 of 12 copies of my report.

She is sitting out in the bay at the end of line of other ships left to wither and die. And they have several lines of old ships out there, mostly Auxiliary classes. MARAD was doing their best to keep her up such as painting and fixing some plugged deck drains.

**TopHatter** · 09-18-2006, 18:46 PM

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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

I took some 35 mm slide shots of her and even if I used digital I don't know how to post pics on this board. Too many other things to do such as printing out the last 4 of 12 copies of my report.

If you can get 'em scanned, I'll be happy to post them here.

RustyBattleship · 09-19-2006, 00:31 AM

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Originally Posted by TopHatter

If you can get 'em scanned, I'll be happy to post them here.

I have a 35 mm slide attachment for my scanner. But time is my problem now. You have no idea how much time is taken up trying to take care of a wife who broke both Tibia and Fibia and is in an orthopedic boot. Trips to physical therapist, orthopedists, etc.

gunnut · 09-19-2006, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by rickusn

Sorry to be so long or worse less than illuminating.

Not at all Rick. You probably have forgotten more about the navy than most here will ever know. I absolutely love your ramblings.

I have learned more from you than all of the articles I've read and TV shows I've watched combined.

If you don't mind, keep on ramblin'.

SnowLeopard · 09-19-2006, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

I took some 35 mm slide shots of her and even if I used digital I don't know how to post pics on this board. Too many other things to do such as printing out the last 4 of 12 copies of my report.

She is sitting out in the bay at the end of line of other ships left to wither and die. And they have several lines of old ships out there, mostly Auxiliary classes. MARAD was doing their best to keep her up such as painting and fixing some plugged deck drains.

Are we talking about the BB in Suisun Bay? If so, give me a week and I can do the satellite imagery (the software, civilian, is not on the machine I'm at this week).

Of course, now that it is mentioned, I'm sure someone will beat me to that punch ......... but that's a past time of mine, going around the world and looking down on ships and breakers, like the America, like Alang, etc..
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RAL's_pal? *Defense Professional* Join Date: 01-22-06 Posts: 562	"One of my MOS's was Tank Gunner (As well as truck driver, auto mechanic, driving instructor and armorer). I enjoyed the driving part better than the shooting believe it or not." I guess some people show more ill effects than others, in riding around in a tank without a helmet, eh? Ready for the picnic Comrade? Have you hired the slave labor for unloading the "merchandise?" Last edited by RAL's_pal? : 09-17-2006 at 18:46 PM.

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