stewie 3,387 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've just finished in the infantry after 22 years and i did my first afghan tour as youngish lad, a whole life in front of me to come, no mortgage, no bills(apart from the loan on my boy racer car), loved it out there. did the job and hopefully did it well. not caring a bit what i faced Second tour, our battalion saw a lot of shit and we lost some very good lads and saw a lot of lads that didn't like what was in front of them. they never went back out on patrols or op's and like socks said, were pushed into a job more suited to their mind set. A very, very rough tour. The third tour...i was 37-38, thought f**k that shit...glad i was in a job where i ended up taking bombs and bullets out to the lads...instead of firing them. respect mate......... from speaking to lads who have been there............its something i would hate to do lol.............one said iraq is like a playground compared to afghanistan!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I need luck mate...this civvy life isn't so easy. good job i have a pension to tie me over. I dont like this working for a living shite.....lol But i dont miss it in the slightest, i was lucky and spent my last year at a unit that teach and test the TA before they deployed, and was based local. So i managed to get myself suited to civvy street very progressively. are you into running dogs??? can sort you a day out if you are,only down the road............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
derbylad1 293 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I had it quite easy and very lucky i suppose. Even my second tour was cut short to go recruiting in Worcester....easy life...lol I had the piss taken for being a "bullet dodger"....f*****g right. I love my legs!!!!! The only shit thing is...that the young lads aren't paid enough....and its not likely to get any better for a long time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
derbylad1 293 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I need luck mate...this civvy life isn't so easy. good job i have a pension to tie me over. I dont like this working for a living shite.....lol But i dont miss it in the slightest, i was lucky and spent my last year at a unit that teach and test the TA before they deployed, and was based local. So i managed to get myself suited to civvy street very progressively. are you into running dogs??? can sort you a day out if you are,only down the road............ yes mate...but where are you, i'm not Derby anymore. i live in Macclesfield now...its where all my permission is, my work and oh yeah...the missus...lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gonetoearth 5,144 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I had need to go to a bourough of liverpool town hall the last year Up on the wall were the old liverpool kings reg colours. With there battle honounrs My nephew had been posterd out in afgan a year before. Hellmend up on the colours were hellmend and another afgan province that slips my mind The dates were over a hundred and fifty years ago !!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I need luck mate...this civvy life isn't so easy. good job i have a pension to tie me over. I dont like this working for a living shite.....lol But i dont miss it in the slightest, i was lucky and spent my last year at a unit that teach and test the TA before they deployed, and was based local. So i managed to get myself suited to civvy street very progressively. are you into running dogs??? can sort you a day out if you are,only down the road............ yes mate...but where are you, i'm not Derby anymore. i live in Macclesfield now...its where all my permission is, my work and oh yeah...the missus...lol lol im between derby and burton mate.........only an hour away from macclefield.............why did you leave derby??? to rough compared to Kabul??? lol lol........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
derbylad1 293 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... Same place, but different postcode....Bosnia!!!!. Sick fuckers. We found a dead pregnant woman nailed on a cross, they'd taken her baby out and stuck a piglet in its place....i was 19 at the time and the first ever dead person i'd ever seen. But i think i was too young to care...if that makes sense. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
derbylad1 293 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I need luck mate...this civvy life isn't so easy. good job i have a pension to tie me over. I dont like this working for a living shite.....lol But i dont miss it in the slightest, i was lucky and spent my last year at a unit that teach and test the TA before they deployed, and was based local. So i managed to get myself suited to civvy street very progressively. are you into running dogs??? can sort you a day out if you are,only down the road............ yes mate...but where are you, i'm not Derby anymore. i live in Macclesfield now...its where all my permission is, my work and oh yeah...the missus...lol lol im between derby and burton mate.........only an hour away from macclefield.............why did you leave derby??? to rough compared to Kabul??? lol lol........ You near swadlincote then??? i left derby because it looked like Kabul...if you catch my drift...lol. but thats is one real reason, also its where the missus lives and macclesfield had less competition to set up the business Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... stockholm has a massive serbian population and i got to no a few while i was there............one thing i learnt in one meeting was the tough guys over here (not the army lads!!) wouldnt last two minutes over there!! war to them is like us watching football or rugby......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... Same place, but different postcode....Bosnia!!!!. Sick fuckers. We found a dead pregnant woman nailed on a cross, they'd taken her baby out and stuck a piglet in its place....i was 19 at the time and the first ever dead person i'd ever seen. But i think i was too young to care...if that makes sense. Yep did Bosnia aswel mate and they were bad but Kosovo was the tops for depravity for me ....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I need luck mate...this civvy life isn't so easy. good job i have a pension to tie me over. I dont like this working for a living shite.....lol But i dont miss it in the slightest, i was lucky and spent my last year at a unit that teach and test the TA before they deployed, and was based local. So i managed to get myself suited to civvy street very progressively. are you into running dogs??? can sort you a day out if you are,only down the road............ yes mate...but where are you, i'm not Derby anymore. i live in Macclesfield now...its where all my permission is, my work and oh yeah...the missus...lol lol im between derby and burton mate.........only an hour away from macclefield.............why did you leave derby??? to rough compared to Kabul??? lol lol........ You near swadlincote then??? i left derby because it looked like Kabul...if you catch my drift...lol. but thats is one real reason, also its where the missus lives and macclesfield had less competition to set up the business yeah nr swad pal..........derbys f****d aint it mate and burton........yet i went lichfield the other day and never seen one "ethnic"!!!!! what reg was you in???....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Attack Fell Terrier 864 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... Same place, but different postcode....Bosnia!!!!. Sick fuckers. We found a dead pregnant woman nailed on a cross, they'd taken her baby out and stuck a piglet in its place....i was 19 at the time and the first ever dead person i'd ever seen. But i think i was too young to care...if that makes sense. A bloke I know said he seen a video of something similar from the Balkans during the wars they had where a group of blokes are all betting, then one of them grabs hold of a pregnant woman, cuts her open and pulls the baby out. They were betting on what sex the baby was going to be. Truly terrible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulf 820 Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... Same place, but different postcode....Bosnia!!!!. Sick fuckers. We found a dead pregnant woman nailed on a cross, they'd taken her baby out and stuck a piglet in its place....i was 19 at the time and the first ever dead person i'd ever seen. But i think i was too young to care...if that makes sense. A bloke I know said he seen a video of something similar from the Balkans during the wars they had where a group of blokes are all betting, then one of them grabs hold of a pregnant woman, cuts her open and pulls the baby out. They were betting on what sex the baby was going to be. Truly terrible. remember something like that in the paper once, think it was that place . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 War is war and a fire fight is a fire fight and yep it's some scary shit at times and does effect people BUT the worst atrocities I have ever seen that effected men the worst was in Kosovo ... The things them Serbs and Croatians did to each other and innocent women and kids was unspeakable ... If I wrote just a paragraph of what went on in those secluded mountain villages most of you wouldn't sleep for nights ... It truly was a disturbing place that I was glad to get out of......... Same place, but different postcode....Bosnia!!!!. Sick fuckers. We found a dead pregnant woman nailed on a cross, they'd taken her baby out and stuck a piglet in its place....i was 19 at the time and the first ever dead person i'd ever seen. But i think i was too young to care...if that makes sense. A bloke I know said he seen a video of something similar from the Balkans during the wars they had where a group of blokes are all betting, then one of them grabs hold of a pregnant woman, cuts her open and pulls the baby out. They were betting on what sex the baby was going to be. Truly terrible. them stories shock you to the bone......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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