I should probably get mine out and top them up, will probably put a Connery Bond because why not
You only live twice…
Because you know it makes sense.
Or thunderball.
In fact, sod it. In this priority order.
YOLT
Thunderball
Goldfinger
Dr No
Never say never
From Russia with love
Diamonds are forever
Never say ‘Never Say Never’…
Take a butchers at fill your boots, combat boot, and spicystaffofficermemes on twitter for more incisive commentary on this event…
Something similar happened at JL once. The section I was assessing were dropped on the wrong side of small river, I then had to wait for longer than it should have taken for the cadets navigating to work out that the river, which should have been to the north, was now to the south.
You see, the one thing they just couldn’t factor into the situation was the prospect that their heroes piloting the Merlin would have made a mistake!
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One time at band camp
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does that jacket look light than the trousers?? ie not a matching set?
or is it the light/visual trick?
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We managed to coordinate quite a few heli pickups when running the Cranditz leadership camps. Everyone had the safety brief before each camp.
Two main issues, having being briefed as part of their lead to lay out a heli landing area for their “transport” pick, there was often an incredulous “Huh??!!l when a Puma or Chinook arrived. Had to ask team leader if they wanted the flight or the walk - sometimes more than once!
Then the time appreciation - plod along at 6k / hr - ah, now dropped off in 5 mins! Brain could not compute! 
Same for getting Hercs to drop off rations…
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Yeah, because throughout the rest of the course they’ll have laid out 50-odd of the buggers only for a landie to turn up…
In about 18 months of IOT (I got injured) there was only one ex where ‘real’ helicopters turned up.
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Bad org by the sqn adj team - on one of the tactical camps, managed 3 heli flights in one day - had to walk the students longer to get them tired. 
Never got a sniff of any trips like that…
…but was because the Adj was so well connected the Wx for the 12 days at Catterick was booked and was so filthy even the birds were walking
Bus doors open - clouds opened
Bus doors shut 12 days later - rain stopped…Heaven!!
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Ah, Catterick. Great trg area. I would tell the students that I would run down down hills all day, running up hills was a pointless exercise & NOT encouraged. 
Went there first as a cadet - a pre-Bisley shooting camp, brand new .303s straight from the packaging!
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Ah! Catterick! Fond memories of Gandale and the farmhouse. Last few times I was at the College of Knowledge was in '92 on my FT1 and '93 on FT Spt.
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lol
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The madness continues. Ted Hughes former Poet Laureate is having books blacklisted by the British Library as an ancestor from the late 16th century appears to have had a link to British colonialism and or the slave trade. Their list of heinous individuals include Byron, Orwell, Kipling and Wilde all through tenuous long past and or convoluted links.
I’d lay money most of us with a British family history going back 500 years would find a tenuous link to the slave trade/colonialism. But it happened, was of its time and nothing we can do about it.
It’s hardly a “blacklist” it’s a dossier of authors with links to colonialism or slavery.
Yesterday you were complaining about tippexing history, now you’re complaining about organisations pointing it out?
I don’t like replying to your posts, but now I know how Twitter feels when it decided to put fact checks under everything Trump writes.
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Like the poorly written newspaper articles that you’re mis-quoting from there’s a kernal of truth that’s been completely misinterpreted and spun by the newspaper writers.
He’s not blacklisted, the Library have just provided some additional background information about him. Whether it’s relevant could be debatable, but if he (or anyone else) directly benefitted by inheritance from the cruelty and horrors of slavery, I think that’s worth highlighting.
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