lol funny enough some people who resold there smokes in WW2 where sometimes labeled as extreme addicts as they would try to get there hands on all and any for resale even German tobacco products (disliked turkish tobacco) non-smokers who were rare during the war made a good amount of money from the stories from here in Canada.
There was a whole resale market going on among the commonwealth troops apparently. (how large is up to discussion)
Rock or Something lol you better not use you leg.
they are worse than MREs?!
As an army cadet we used to get british ration pack (MRE) and they were full of miserable bland currys and flavourless potato and bean slops.
French MREs are very good tho, they know how to make a good rat pack
French MREs are the best in the world.
Still looking for that “something”.
https://www.army.mil/article/104094/between_a_rock_or_something_and_an_mre
The only offence to the French in a French MRE is the wine is in a plastic bottle but you have to do what you have to do.
FYI the MRE decoration for UK and France is coming after I finish Carrier Ulyanovsk suggestion.
Pic of my kids “enjoying” a US MRE “several” years ago:
We also tried French, Russian, and Canadian ones. All of which are “better” than US ones in the frills they throw into them.
I would not post that here there are some pretty bad people who will geolocate people on the forum.
Thanks but good luck geolocating that and from that long ago.
now that means it was a apocalyptic event. Waffle House never closes.
oh i was just a cadet, not a serviceman, works a little different over here. Army cadets is kinda like JROTC but a little more militarised and infantry centric than generic ROTC, was part of that as an NCO for 5 years. Met my missus before i had the chance to enlist as a regular or reservist so i never ended up taking the King’s shilling, probably would have joined the Royal Navy, they have better opportunities for what i want to do in life.
If things hit the fan right now i dont think we would even be capable of setting up a mandatory service system… UKs military is in a rough spot at the mo
i know. Over here in the army cadet force we actually go on camps, do shoots at ranges and blankfire training while learning bushcraft and actual combat tactics used by the army. Its not officer centric at all, it focuses on the world of the private and low rank NCO.
best of luck to you. Farmers need all the help they can get, they are the foundation of a civilisation more than a government or any other trade could ever be
Personal highlight for me was when another platoon got chased out of a field by a herd of cows, one of which had their MTP trousers shredded by the barbed wire fence they vaulted.
agreed. My time in the ACF made me a much more confident individual. Admittedly i still suffer from being far too stressed in life for a number of reasons, but i am far more confident in what i can do. Such organisations for young people are great, even if waking up at 5am to a “STAND TO!!” call in a moist cold ditch isnt the most enjoyable in the moment.
no way that happens in band of brothers? never watched it but maybe it is as real as people claim it is if they have that in there