EVE General Discussion

Hello all

As anyone in the commonwealth knows Remembrance Day is approaching and this year it will be a few days before the parades which are always held on Sunday.

As an ex-serviceman myself I thought this year lets have a free for all of anything funny that brings up service, it can be EVE based, or anything at all, clips from favourite TV shows, films, songs, sketches, whatever to give us a light hearted look at what we are to remember.

No posts after 11/11/11 please.

I left early after some muppet para broke my knee when I was clearing a pub, but back in the old days we were encouraged to keep pen pals, all five of mine passed away in service, 2 in Northern Ireland and 3 in Iraq. Anytime one of them came to mine back in Wales we had a lot of drink and above all a good laugh.

Friday is the day to start thinking the sad thoughts, until then lets go for a bit of mad fun and above all remembering.

This is an old clip but I find funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgreYNCTB4

or it could be a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

This is not any sort of a troll, I lost 3 great-grandparents in WW1 and a lot of relatives in WW2, but as my gran used to say, sometimes if you don't laugh you'd just cry, lets get some jollies going.

...No posts after... novermber 11th, 2011?

Great thread Choo Mi.
I will always remember the Blackadder series, following Baldrick and Edmund through history. I will also never forget watching the final episode, those final 3 minutes were amazing. It summed up the bravery, stupidity and needless anguish of the trenches in a way only Elton and Curtiss could.

Going from laughter to tears in 30 seconds. Wonderful TV.

Death Of A Soldier

I glanced him first upon that day
Stepping smartly down the path
A young man, battles finest
Unaware of war's untold wrath
I saw him next drenched in muck
Battle hard and oh so sad
I pity him to this day
What a fine, fine young lad
I saw him last on that field of blood
The price of freedom he had borne
Now in death's hand he lay
His body bruised, black and torn
I ask that we not forget
The price that he did pay
For God, country and what was right
On the field that day


- one of mine from yesteryears

I've been rather lucky to know that most that I served with that I keep up with are still around, so I'll give a few humorous anecdotes.

At one of my duty stations I supported the training of US Marine officer candidates at OCS in Quantico, VA. By tradition, the physical component of the regimen is led by a British Royal Marine, at the time a *Colour Sergeant from Wales with a very thick brogue. One day during a 'mandatory fun' event, I found myself playing a few rounds of golf with the XO, the Colour Sergeant, a fellow Corporal, and three of our young non-rated Marines. Since this was a mixed-rank group in a "relaxed" setting, we were encouraged to speak more-or-less freely to each other.

At some point, the discussion turned to deployments and getting used to being in a foreign country - specifically getting used to local color and languages. One of my young Lance Corporals turned to the Colour Sergeant and asked him how long it took him to get used to using the language here in Virginia. I never know what 'pole-axed' looked like on a living person, but the Colour Sergeant stood there for a bit with a slow blink, then turned to the hapless Marine and told him, "Well, since we invented the language, it didn't take me very long at all. You're the ones who keep mucking it up." Complete with cheeky grin.

A good laugh was had by all... even the red-faced LCpl.




*Notice that random 'U', it's important. Colour Sergeant is a RM rank, while Color Sergeant is a USMC billet. Yes... at one point the Colour Sergeant served as our unit's Color Sergeant. I'm sure it gave those writing the orders a fit.


(hit quote by accident rather than edit...oops.)

--Gadget

As a squaddie brat and an ex-crab (RAF for those unfamiliar with HM Forces inter service slang), this one makes me laugh every time.