|
Articles
ANOTHER DRILL INSTRUCTOR STORY
from John Barrett
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
All DIs are open to be skylarked with: usually it’s the ‘pace stick’ that gets taken to pieces or float tested, but on this day he had a number of ‘excused boots or swimming’ recruits with him and told them to guard it with their lives. It was clasped in a sweaty palm with the ‘fear of God’ look on the poor lad’s face. The young PTI moved very quickly leaving the ‘Holier than Thou’ pace stick alone and attacked the No. 2 Tunic hanging on the peg. It was simple to sow one extra button on the long flap of the front about the right distance apart. It takes some believing but to watch a (thick) DI start doing his jacket up only to find an extra button, undo it again and this time start from the top only to find still one spare. He took about a full minute before it dawned on him to count the buttons. Even the Parade RSM Dai Morgan thought that was one-upmanship for the PTIs.
John Barrett
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
<<read more articles
|
