What`s stuck in your field?

[Boysground]

Last year I had a couple of Gurkhas with land rovers large tents and an entire communication system set up in one of my fields. An officer had put them there in the night. I wasn’t that worried but suggested that they might like to get back on the training area, which was a 20 yard move. Problem was that to do it they had to shut down the whole exercise happening on most of Salisbury Plain. It took a while, Gurkhas are the politest soldiers I have met.

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[Dry Rot]

...a few feet of garden hose and some cans while no one's looking.... They'll never notice!

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

@silverfox may be able to equal a helicopter in a field . [emoji849]

 

[Hindsight]

Teleporters with forks either side - bit of a lift and away we go. If only.

 

[Red Fred]

Last year I had a couple of Gurkhas with land rovers large tents and an entire communication system set up in one of my fields. An officer had put them there in the night. I wasn’t that worried but suggested that they might like to get back on the training area, which was a 20 yard move. Problem was that to do it they had to shut down the whole exercise happening on most of Salisbury Plain. It took a while, Gurkhas are the politest soldiers I have met.

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I found a similar set up a few years ago, turned out they were signallers from Blandford, but their navigation can't have been too good as we're miles from a training area. I left them to it as they weren't hurting.

 

[thorpe]

Teleporters with forks either side - bit of a lift and away we go. If only.

the tele loaders would get stuck getting there.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

An officer had put them there in the night

That explains it. Most clueless thing in the army is a junior officer with a map

 

[Paddington]

We had Chinooks flying low past our house on night exercises most Tuesday nights when we lived dahn sarf. They would carry large cement blocks to recreate a stripped down Land Rover ,drop them in a clearing and fly off. The paras would emerge from the undergrowth and do what they had to do before the Chinook returned to take the thing away again. I used to make a retreat during this and often imagined a Cpl Jones sat on the block "engine running, sir, we're driving down the road nmm, nmm, nmm. ".

 

[robs1]

Dont get as many Hercules over us since lyneham closed as they dont drop at a nearby airfield so much, still get the occasional copter though, good few years ago had one nearly land in one of my fields, was working in the next one at the time thought perhaps they had a mechanical problem but then saw a chap.jump.out have a pee, get back in and they flew off, when you got to go you've got to.go

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Down chopper , out chopper , empty chopper , hop in chopper , chopper off

 

[Boysground]

We had Chinooks flying low past our house on night exercises most Tuesday nights when we lived dahn sarf. They would carry large cement blocks to recreate a stripped down Land Rover ,drop them in a clearing and fly off. The paras would emerge from the undergrowth and do what they had to do before the Chinook returned to take the thing away again. I used to make a retreat during this and often imagined a Cpl Jones sat on the block "engine running, sir, we're driving down the road nmm, nmm, nmm. ".

Chinooks make my house shake, they are usually landing at the camp up the road

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[steveR]

That explains it. Most clueless thing in the army is a junior officer with a map

My Lad would take exception to that, however, I suspect from the Tales he has got of some fellow JO's in training, there is some/ a lot of truth in that....

 

[Sonoftheheir]

It’s got silly wheels on it, they should have put the floats on!

 

[unlacedgecko]

Last year I had a couple of Gurkhas with land rovers large tents and an entire communication system set up in one of my fields. An officer had put them there in the night. I wasn’t that worried but suggested that they might like to get back on the training area, which was a 20 yard move. Problem was that to do it they had to shut down the whole exercise happening on most of Salisbury Plain. It took a while, Gurkhas are the politest soldiers I have met.

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They really are lovely.

 

[Drillman]

Is that for the Fendt owner who has everything?
maybe a new type of experimental DD ?

just wait till it dries up a bit then a telehandler and a couple of scabby rachet straps will soon sort it?

 

[thorpe]

It’s got silly wheels on it, they should have put the floats on!

yea we have to.

 

[thorpe]

Is that for the Fendt owner who has everything?
maybe a new type of experimental DD ?

just wait till it dries up a bit then a telehandler and a couple of scabby rachet straps will soon sort it?

twit it weighs 11t

 

[Drillman]

twit it weighs 11t

Don’t be such a defeatist

 

[Red Fred]

My mate's dad drove Churchill tanks in Korea, and he said the crews used to sleep underneath them for protection, until one night the ground thawed out and a tank sank up to its belly.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

My Lad would take exception to that, however, I suspect from the Tales he has got of some fellow JO's in training, there is some/ a lot of truth in that....

Many a time have I see a stripey subtly help a one pip wonder with their map reading skills. The best ones could do it so subtly that the JO didn't even realise they were being helped lol