Nearly all even when I was joining the army and being sent to Sutton Coalfields for two days of instructional videos and tests this was in 1980 and the D.S staff were saying then that in the near future nearly all trades would be done out of house this has now cascaded across the British military and we now possess a militia as we do not have the numbers to call ourselves an army and it will come back to bite us soon. To my fellow British Army ex squaddie veterans KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY GUYS AND DON’T LET THEM GRIND YOU DOWN!!! Nick
These videos are amazing. Even more amazing is that how I never saw any of them when I was at that young impressionable age. Every 'Information Office' should have been showing these videos, in fact they need to show something like this now, updated of course. I don't remember being shown much of anything at all when I joined.
Glad you are enjoying them, many more to come! I agree I don't know if I joined at a time when they didn't need to persuade people but I don't recall seeing any videos at all.
I should show this to my dad, who's 85 now. He spent the 60's and 70's in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was one of the many people who don't get the glory, but ensured that everything functioned. In his case, he was the electronics technician who kept the gadgets running. He was good at it, and kept the same posting for most of his time. Nobody wanted to let him go. He was given a list of what's not working properly, and left to handle it. Years later, though not in the military, I have a similar position. There's no glory in it, but I keep things rolling. The stories he and I swap sound alike. Usually about fixing a mistake made by some bone head.
Amazing how many of these jobs are now carried out by civilian contractors.
Nearly all even when I was joining the army and being sent to Sutton Coalfields for two days of instructional videos and tests this was in 1980 and the D.S staff were saying then that in the near future nearly all trades would be done out of house this has now cascaded across the British military and we now possess a militia as we do not have the numbers to call ourselves an army and it will come back to bite us soon.
To my fellow British Army ex squaddie veterans KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY GUYS AND DON’T LET THEM GRIND YOU DOWN!!!
Nick
These videos are amazing. Even more amazing is that how I never saw any of them when I was at that young impressionable age. Every 'Information Office' should have been showing these videos, in fact they need to show something like this now, updated of course. I don't remember being shown much of anything at all when I joined.
Glad you are enjoying them, many more to come! I agree I don't know if I joined at a time when they didn't need to persuade people but I don't recall seeing any videos at all.
Id like to see more of films on the Royal tank regiments
No thanks, I was a 'tankie' in RTR, bloody hated it, not so much the blokes, made some good mates, the officers and SNCOs were tosspots
I should show this to my dad, who's 85 now. He spent the 60's and 70's in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was one of the many people who don't get the glory, but ensured that everything functioned.
In his case, he was the electronics technician who kept the gadgets running. He was good at it, and kept the same posting for most of his time. Nobody wanted to let him go. He was given a list of what's not working properly, and left to handle it.
Years later, though not in the military, I have a similar position. There's no glory in it, but I keep things rolling.
The stories he and I swap sound alike. Usually about fixing a mistake made by some bone head.