Off Again
After the exercise in Canada and the small matter of proposing to Mrs Soldier I'd returned to Germany. We'd then spent a few months not doing very much. A little bit of looking after vehicles, or pretending to at any rate. But then it was time for the off again.
The end of the Cold War had left the British army with something of a problem. The absence of a ravening horde of Soviet soldiers on their borders had led some of the Germans to having a change of heart.
No longer did they want scores of British squaddies trooping across their farm land, knocking down their hedges, nicking eggs from their chickens and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
I can't think why.
This had left the army with a bit of a problem over where to practice being at war.
So they did the sensible thing and went and borrowed a bit of real estate from one of our former opponents.
When the British army first turned up at the Drawsko Pomorksi training area the local authorities said that we could pretty much do as we liked but would we be so kind as to not test fire chemical weapons too close to any of the towns.
Makes you wonder.
The end of the Cold War had left the British army with something of a problem. The absence of a ravening horde of Soviet soldiers on their borders had led some of the Germans to having a change of heart.
No longer did they want scores of British squaddies trooping across their farm land, knocking down their hedges, nicking eggs from their chickens and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
I can't think why.
This had left the army with a bit of a problem over where to practice being at war.
So they did the sensible thing and went and borrowed a bit of real estate from one of our former opponents.
When the British army first turned up at the Drawsko Pomorksi training area the local authorities said that we could pretty much do as we liked but would we be so kind as to not test fire chemical weapons too close to any of the towns.
Makes you wonder.
fired down the range by DC at 6:45 pm
4 Comments:
off topic, but Deepcut? Public enquiry or no?
I would hope the Poles would be more welcoming, considering we went to war (WW2) for (partly) their sakes.
I assume babsbitchin is berating someone else - not you? Quotes would help. Not being rude.
Babs - interesting although I'd like to know what 'Your God' thinks of the term wanker!
Anotherbrother - cheers mate looking forward to easter.
PI - they were actually very welcoming and probably for the reasons eggbanjo says.
You do have a valid point and I stand convicted!
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