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Originally Posted by charlie fitton
When we started the HLIofC group here in Cambridge (about a million years ago) we had an interesting problem - couldn't find enough entrenching tools.
We did have a few and at an early display for the Vets, we apologized for not having enough to go round.
The vets emphatically advised us that they chucked that usless tool, and prefferred to dig in with real tools.
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About a decade back, the BQ of the artillery battery I was attached to issued the modern version of those things to all of us to get them out of his store room. They got tossed into the basement, never to be seen again until I got out of the service.
My take on it is that if there was a mechanic, then there was a truck, and if there was a truck, then there was a real shovel.