Milsurp After Hours

This joke has been around for along time and still makes me chuckle, wish it were true.......

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/snap-trapped/

In AZ, my son drove my pickup a lot and got caught in speed traps a few times. Because the truck was in my name,
they mailed the tickets to me. All I did was mail the ticket back with a copy of my license to prove it wasn't me in the
photo. Once I even mailed a copy of my wife's license because my son's girlfriend was driving. Never heard back from
them, even though there was a place on the form to put in the name of the person driving, I just left it blank.
And I told my son one more and I would fill in his name.....

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By 1950, the British Army introduced a new number system for all new recruits, commencing with 22000000. Where do you come in? Or is your number still wet? Each unit were issued a batch of numbers so dates may vary slightly depending on recruitment.

22000000 to 22199408 Carbolic Soap
22199409 to 23188252 Blanco
23188253 to 23845071 Gillette Razors
23845072 to 24057159 Beatles
24057160 to 24182227 1966 World Cup
24182228 to 24369281 before September,1975 OP Banner
24369282 to 24589196 Maggie’s Children
24589197 to 24753060 Paco Rabanne and Aramis
24753061 to ???????? still being issued, comfy helmets and a rifle you can break

Definitely a Paco Rabanne Man however my RNR number dates from 1975................Bet I am the only one here who served in two of the three branches of HM Forces.

Sorry Joe, I don't get it??

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Basically Vern, you see the numbers. If your British Army Number was, for instance, 238455100 then you enlisted at a time when it was The Beatles era....... My Army number puts me in the Paco Rabanne era because my first 4 are 2474
If your number was 24753061 or after then you are in the current series and have to put up with a shit rifle

2427****

OK, now I get it, Duncan...... I also had to look up Blanco, had never heard of it.
As they say, two countries separated by a common language............

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