Armed forces dog men

[paulus 26]

18 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Hi, yeah, I would probably have met the Guy,...I seemed to cross paths with the majority of folk mentioned in the early jottings , books, articles, etc....

Facts were, back then, I used to get about a bit ,...I always had an almost perverse urge to meet various people, described as being, genuine hunting men...

It took me a few years,.. but, I eventually grew out of it,...I stopped searching for heroes, and then everything became, a whole lot clearer...

Back Then, heroes were often created by people with very little knowledge putting people with a bit more knowledge on a pedestal that was usually far to high for there accolades, Today Heroes are created by the keyboard and the click of a mouse Lol.  

[TOMO 26,067]

Is that Penny on the end...looks like her ...met her real nice lady..

Paulus is correct about the airfields...I do a fair bit of work on airforce bases...and the bird scare guys are usually a a good source of info about wildlife on the base...

On some bases those guys literally get to drive round shooting all sorts they are usually ex service men with a pension to help pay the bills cos it's nearly always min wage...that said nice little job if money is not your goal

[paulus 26]

9 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Is that Penny on the end...looks like her ...met her real nice lady..

Paulus is correct about the airfields...I do a fair bit of work on airforce bases...and the bird scare guys are usually a a good source of info about wildlife on the base...

On some bases those guys literally get to drive round shooting all sorts they are usually ex service men with a pension to help pay the bills cos it's nearly always min wage...that said nice little job if money is not your goal

The ranges in Germany were crawling with gear, Boar, Deer, Trout you name it, Always managed to get out of guard duty on nearly every exercise by suppling the officers mess with fresh game Lol

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,746]

I always wonder if any of you lot have any idea at all about the army or how it works 

the army isn’t a case of you join up and you return two decades later with bad knees , a drinking problem and bad attitude 

if I so wished , I could have taken my dog anywhere baring foreign deployments , to Kenya Afghanistan’s etc . Postings to the north of Scotland are sought after by a lot of my mates so they can get out after the deer , two of my mates , still serving , have venison butchery businesses . 

once you reach a certain competence and experience , I can often pick and choose my working hours . It isn’t dads army , you get a task , how you complete it is up to you , and in general you le weekends are your own . 
 

my working pattern last three weeks  has been

sundayvafternoon - weds night .literally trapped in the office until then 

week after , Tuesday , weds , Thursday 

last week Monday - Thursday 

weds afternoons are for sports and when you factor phys , meetings , maintenance into it .your actual work quality becomes critical. 

i know several lads who live to shoot and fish and until recently the army had an active foxhound pack . The idea you can’t keep a dog , quite frankly is laughable. 

no different to a lad working away or driving a wagon 

Even more so when you consider the huge amount of lads who live close by , fo example living in west London or Southampton , and working in tidworth or working in catterick and living up in the north east or yorks . It’s just a job 

 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,746]

On 23/11/2024 at 14:08, OldPhil said:

Hi, yeah, I would probably have met the Guy,...I seemed to cross paths with the majority of folk mentioned in the early jottings , books, articles, etc....

Facts were, back then, I used to get about a bit ,...I always had an almost perverse urge to meet various people, described as being, genuine hunting men...

It took me a few years,.. but, I eventually grew out of it,...I stopped searching for heroes, and then everything became, a whole lot clearer...

Young Celt is some animal 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 15,746]

13 hours ago, paulus said:

There use to be a few opportunities i can remember, One was on the BCU (Bird Control Unit) on airfields, Scaring birds and controlling Mammal's were the job, so BOP, Dogs, Guns, Traps and gas guns were used. The other one would have been as Range warden, Again mas swathes of countryside with little to no access to the public. Probably no long done by servicemen but contracted out to some civilian company or other nowadays. There has always been a few dog men in the police force but that's another topic Lol.    

Defence deer management. 
 

fac licence , weapon in the armoury , do the mandatory courses , few forms then pow , off you go , free reign at deer across ANY military range in the UK 

[Bakerboy 4,687]

25 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I always wonder if any of you lot have any idea at all about the army or how it works 

the army isn’t a case of you join up and you return two decades later with bad knees , a drinking problem and bad attitude 

if I so wished , I could have taken my dog anywhere baring foreign deployments , to Kenya Afghanistan’s etc . Postings to the north of Scotland are sought after by a lot of my mates so they can get out after the deer , two of my mates , still serving , have venison butchery businesses . 

once you reach a certain competence and experience , I can often pick and choose my working hours . It isn’t dads army , you get a task , how you complete it is up to you , and in general you le weekends are your own . 
 

my working pattern last three weeks  has been

sundayvafternoon - weds night .literally trapped in the office until then 

week after , Tuesday , weds , Thursday 

last week Monday - Thursday 

weds afternoons are for sports and when you factor phys , meetings , maintenance into it .your actual work quality becomes critical. 

i know several lads who live to shoot and fish and until recently the army had an active foxhound pack . The idea you can’t keep a dog , quite frankly is laughable. 

no different to a lad working away or driving a wagon 

Even more so when you consider the huge amount of lads who live close by , fo example living in west London or Southampton , and working in tidworth or working in catterick and living up in the north east or yorks . It’s just a job 

 

That's the type of reply I was looking for, cheers

[OldPhil 5,677]

8 hours ago, TOMO said:

Is that Penny on the end...looks like her ... met her real nice lady..

 

No,. it's not her....

[Bakerboy 4,687]

23 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

That's the type of reply I was looking for, cheers

And no I have no idea how the armed forces work that's why asked the question, last mate I knew in the army was killed in the Falklands

[mC HULL 12,290]

13 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Defence deer management. 
 

fac licence , weapon in the armoury , do the mandatory courses , few forms then pow , off you go , free reign at deer across ANY military range in the UK 

you having a go stiff ? 

[DEERMAN 1,019]

I served and had dogs , prob had more opportunities to run them all over the country than most 

[Black neck 15,878]

Well it just goes 2 show it's not compulsory to be a complete dosser