Should have asked him his service number, mine is burned into my memory (all those pay parades) as also is the year I was called up and the fact that my nice holiday East Africa was cancelled in 1956 thanks to Anthony Eden’s Suez adventure
. On the other hand perhaps he really was a Group Captain and was a bit clueless
Yes, and if you had still been called up you might have got useful experience in your chosen line of work
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Yes, and if you had still been called up you might have got useful experience in your chosen line of work
Indeed a physically fit bank robber who knows how to use a gun
Having trouble parsing this, Brian. You seem to be saying you were a physically unfit bank robber, who didn't know how to use a gun?
just an amusing answer to Richard's in # 42.....it reminded me of sending young thugs to boot camps to be drilled by an army instructor and they would come out back on the streets as physically fit young thugs. 
Getting somewhat off the point, but what I would like to see is conscription brought back but for women only
Getting somewhat off the point, but what I would like to see is conscription brought back but for women only
