Or maybe real world tactics do work, but we're just not very good at doing them

Anyone got a whistle? I've just had a comedy experience in my local cornershop that sells pretty much everything (think Open All Hours but run by two...

Thanks Barry.

Howabout a nice bottle of Leffe beer? Buy it for the cork and get the beer free.

CW will make anything burn with his careful application of parafin! I thought he just used the power of his mind... Look at the concentration requir...

I'll be there.

You can treat a shoulder pretty easily if you have a shower or a shower attachment in the bath. Alternate between hot and cold - as extreme as you ca...

p.s. accent - moved here from UK 17 years ago but managed to hang onto the original, thank god! well...sort of... TBH it's like Dick Van Dyke meets ...

Aw. I'll join the OBLI again, in that case. Oooh... Really? Deep undercover with a bright red beret is it? You'll recall how well that worked at...

I don't think it necessarily worked like that. My grandad was born and bred in Kent and yet ended up in the Bedfs & Herts regiment even though he...

I'm also having battery crisis. Can some kind soul lend a charged up NiMH stick battery suitable for the second run AGM Stens? I only have the one i...

Feel free to make up your own 6 figure army number and, for a suitable date of birth, just use your own birthday but, for the year, subtract your age ...

I'm actually a bit nervous about this one so I'm at 5 right now.

I'm taking my airborne lid, just in case it rains! But how are you going to carry it when the rain stops and it's baking hot? I've given up trying t...

No need for helmets chaps. They were ditched straight after the jump and regular hats (beret, hbt cap) were used. Good.

So did the Brits supply the froggies with steel helmets as well as guns and battledress? I'm trying to find a valid reason for wearing my MK2 infantr...