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Post by joseyclosey » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:44 pm

Heres a couple of pics taken in September 1973 somewhere on Luneberg Heide, Northern Germany.

My SLR has the wood butt and plastic forend, my pals rifle has all wood furniture.

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Our humble abode,

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I dug these out of the attic after looking at some Brit squaddies with SLR

pics on the "FAL Files". Cheers for the link Curtis ;)

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Post by ThePitbullofLove » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:00 pm

Great pix, Joe!

Lesse, 1973...I was four...hm.

This might have been '74...I'm on the left...

Not an SLR, but I've got a gun :D

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Post by joseyclosey » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:27 am

Howdy pardner, BTW, that doesnt look like a toy gun Brian :lol:

Thats a pretty fancy waistcoat you are wearing too ;)

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Post by ThePitbullofLove » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:55 am

My parents were enablers :D

I was spoiled rotten. Tons of toys.

My mother was a pretty good seamstress, so she made me cowboy outfits, indian outfits, military uniforms, pirate clothes, and even made me a set of camouflage BDU's around 1976, long before such items of clothing became available for kids :D

I had an 8' x 2' x 2' toychest packed to the lid with toy guns, swords, and knives of all descriptions. Even then, my preference was for "realistic" looking toys. I loved my Marx plastic M1 Garand and my wooden bolt action Springfield with the "golden wooden bullet" revealed when the bolt was pulled back.

On a depressing note...all those toys are long gone now...they'd be worth a small fortune today. Plus, you can't get good toy guns anymore. Everything has to have an orange muzzle plug, or be some day-glo color. :(

Guess that's why I'm stuck with buying the real thing :D
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Luneberg

Post by Strangely_Brown » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:10 pm

Er Joe, I was on the same exercise!

As I recall there were also Para TA involved as the enemy (depends which side you were on) I was doing the part of an OP officer as our troop commander was ill and I had to take command of a 432 as a young gunner which did not go down well with the lance jack flaggy we had.

Being the OP officers ack I was given the job and loved it, my memory is a bit dim but I do recall it pi55ed down during the exercise and we ended up near a gasthues and managed to dry out over a few beers and the gasthues (spelling?) also contained some of the enemy TA paras.

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Post by joseyclosey » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:41 am

You were lucky to get dried out and have a few beers Mick, if i wasnt in a muddy hole, we were creeping round the countryside all night :lol:

I remember the paras as after the excercise we were swapping souvenirs with them. I scored a set of German para wings for my LI cap badge.

Still got the para wings!

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Post by 24626151 » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:27 pm

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West Belfast 1983 1st Bn LI

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Post by joseyclosey » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:33 pm

Got any more to post?

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Post by Strangely_Brown » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:44 pm

Couldn't resist it!

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Post by joseyclosey » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:23 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: ;)

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