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[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Sally Ann

Awwww Alex... you HAVE been well trained (or was she watching over your shoulder??? )



After going to Chez Marie and the with his mates, I will have to drive his smiling corpse back to T.O. ... so I am a necessary element. Besides, I want to meet everyone ... and hear those stories!

Sally.
I will be very pleased to meet you...I WAS Jif's Official Batman at these BBB events but see now that I have been replaced,by you..his official spider killer.
I drew the line at digging his slit trench ..
Any of the stories he tells you about me are lies...all lies....
But I have lots of interesting TRUE war stories of my 14 years in the RCAF..and Canadian Forces..
Embelished..???maybe..
Lies..Never..

[Gunner]

Hi Guys:

August will be a crazy month... I have friends from the UK visiting for the first two weeks: they own a bofors and LAAT (Ferd), a 15 cwt (Chiv) and several 90cm searchlights. I will try to get their dates to coincide with BBB.

I have to go back to the Dark Continent in late Aug for a week long recce of southern countries into which we might export our courses. On the way through the UK I will attend an antique railway and military veh event my chum (see para 1) is hosting on the weekend of 22 to 24 Aug.

Add in the price of petrol these days and I'm afarid we won't be able to bring the big convoy we brought last year... perhaps a smaller line up inlcuding the Windsor carrier (arriving next week!) and the CCKW (in the same container!) and at least one thing that goes BOOM!

Mike

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Add in the price of petrol these days and I'm afarid we won't be able to bring the big convoy we brought last year... perhaps a smaller line up inlcuding the Windsor carrier (arriving next week!) and the CCKW (in the same container!) and at least one thing that goes BOOM!

Mike

Understand ref the gas bit... but PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPRETTYPLEASE bring the 6 pdr? Huh? Huh? Kinda fits behind the Windsor, n'est-ce pas?

[Gunner]

Hi Jiff:

I'm looking forward to putting the two beasties together so your wish may come true... it could happen to you.... if you're young at heart... you old f*rt!

I just stuck another bar on my CD so I'm feeling possitively antique right now!



Mike

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Hi Jiff:

I'm looking forward to putting the two beasties together so your wish may come true... it could happen to you.... if you're young at heart... you old f*rt!

I just stuck another bar on my CD so I'm feeling possitively antique right now!



Mike

First time I have ever heard you complain about a bar.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by servicepub

First time I have ever heard you complain about a bar.

Mebbe that's the gettin' old bit...

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Hi Jiff:

I'm looking forward to putting the two beasties together so your wish may come true... it could happen to you.... if you're young at heart... you old f*rt!

I just stuck another bar on my CD so I'm feeling possitively antique right now!



Mike

Gunner..
Bring the credit card...A bar to a CD is

Congrats..you'll be walking with a list to port for sure when you get all those gongs up..
Price of metal these days you'll need a platoon of troops to keep the "Scrappies" off'n your mangy hide..
Pick you clean they will..

[Jon Skagfeld]

Another bar...as in 2 up?

If so, definitely antique...just like me!

[servicepub (RIP)]

I am also advised that Gunner also received his St. John Service medal and bar indicating 17 years service to that venerable organization. Methinks that Gunner is going for the US look (no offence to our many Yank friends).

[Gunner]

Damn... shudda kept my big OLD mouth shut!

If Her Majesty sees fit to leave me here for BBB I will happily wet the bars at the bar!

Doesn't Joe Drouin (medal mounter extraordinaire) sell some kind of prop with a little wheel on it... to take the weight off'n the left shoulder? If our Forces get any busier we'll all look like banana republic dictators there'll be so much tin on our left chests! Take a look at a Remembrance Day Parade photo from the 70's and compare to today!

Then there was the volunteer in the red t-shirt who wouldn't give serving soldiers a bag lunch at a certain big ceremony involving the opening of a big building full of old military stuff here in Ottawa... he said, with a straight face, to a serving member with eight medals up, "Sorry, bag lunches are only for Veterans!" The gruff reply was, "What do these look like, kid; beer bottle caps?" Needless to say, bag lunches went out to ALL the Veterans.

Mike