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Post by Red Rackham on Jun 16, 2023 2:23:32 GMT
Oh yes Unimog's are good. We had a couple at one regiment and they were brilliant off road vehicles, they could follow tracks anywhere (Tracked vehicles) but I seem to remember what let them down was expense. Compared to Land Rovers which they were up against they were complicated and cost a fortune to service & maintain. I think we had them for two years and they disappeared.
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Post by jonksy on Jun 16, 2023 2:26:45 GMT
Oh yes Unimog's are good. We had a couple at one regiment and they were brilliant off road vehicles, they could follow tracks anywhere (Tracked vehicles) but I seem to remember what let them down was expense. Compared to Land Rovers which they were up against they were complicated and cost a fortune to service & maintain. I think we had them for two years and they disappeared. And the gas pedal was in the centre between the brake and clutch pedals |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jun 16, 2023 2:48:23 GMT
Oh yes Unimog's are good. We had a couple at one regiment and they were brilliant off road vehicles, they could follow tracks anywhere (Tracked vehicles) but I seem to remember what let them down was expense. Compared to Land Rovers which they were up against they were complicated and cost a fortune to service & maintain. I think we had them for two years and they disappeared. And the gas pedal was in the centre between the brake and clutch pedals Really? I didn't know that, or perhaps I've forgotten. They were usually behind me. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jun 16, 2023 2:58:44 GMT
Oh yes Unimog's are good. We had a couple at one regiment and they were brilliant off road vehicles, they could follow tracks anywhere (Tracked vehicles) but I seem to remember what let them down was expense. Compared to Land Rovers which they were up against they were complicated and cost a fortune to service & maintain. I think we had them for two years and they disappeared. And the gas pedal was in the centre between the brake and clutch pedal Jonksy, I think you may be wrong on that one old chap. Not that it matters.  |
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Post by jonksy on Jun 16, 2023 5:21:27 GMT
And the gas pedal was in the centre between the brake and clutch pedal Jonksy, I think you may be wrong on that one old chap. Not that it matters. Years ago mate a tree surgeon who had his yard near to where I lived had one they used as a winch tractor The gas pedal was in the Center but I don’t think it was ex military I think it was a civvy vehicle. |
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Post by sheepy on Jun 16, 2023 6:04:13 GMT
We are fecked, no shit Sherlock.
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Post by Pacifico on Jun 16, 2023 6:35:47 GMT
Oh yes Unimog's are good. We had a couple at one regiment and they were brilliant off road vehicles, they could follow tracks anywhere (Tracked vehicles) but I seem to remember what let them down was expense. Compared to Land Rovers which they were up against they were complicated and cost a fortune to service & maintain. I think we had them for two years and they disappeared.We got them - they were the only thing that could tow Harriers in the field.  |
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Post by Orac on Jun 16, 2023 6:55:53 GMT
The utter madness these people display is far more of a concern than merely a name. All I can conclude is they have all been brainwashed and I suspect the brainwashing was done by the education system. You and I would have only experienced woke lite at school. What total fucking idiots. Being run by these people means Britain will fail and we will likely get bought up by the Chinese. One consolation is unlike our fuckwits they value our culture. On a military front I agree, the Chinese have a large army. Untested, but large. And with 20% unemployment, China is also coming to terms with capitalism. Not everything Baron says about China is untrue. I'm particularly concerned that China does seems to have some basics in place that we no longer have I.e. their establishment isn't committing continuous treason against the Chinese people./ country and doesn't seem racist against the Chinese. For instance, I can't imagine the Chinese air force issuing statements about 'useless slant eyed pilots" |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 16, 2023 8:47:38 GMT
The utter madness these people display is far more of a concern than merely a name. All I can conclude is they have all been brainwashed and I suspect the brainwashing was done by the education system. You and I would have only experienced woke lite at school. What total fucking idiots. Being run by these people means Britain will fail and we will likely get bought up by the Chinese. One consolation is unlike our fuckwits they value our culture. On a military front I agree, the Chinese have a large army. Untested, but large. And with 20% unemployment, China is also coming to terms with capitalism. In China they have built exact replicas of some of our best West Country architecture and these houses in China are for Chinese millionaires. In our town during the 1950s the council wanted to knock it all down and replace it with concrete Brutalist architecture. So there you have it. Strange how people from the other side of the world care more for it than our own people and government. You could be a in a street in China and think you were in Bath. They have one that looks like Yorkshire's 18th century town houses as well. Incidently this is another thing Douglas Adams predicted in his last film. After the hyperspace bypass was built through Blighty a race of millions of builders from some alien planet built it all back again to exactly how it was. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Jun 16, 2023 9:07:31 GMT
And the gas pedal was in the centre between the brake and clutch pedals Really? I didn't know that, or perhaps I've forgotten. They were usually behind me. I don't think that's right. Certainly not true on my mate's Unimog. Unimog started out with agricultural vehicles like tractors so maybe an early Agri Unimog might have had some odd pedal set up but the Army trucks are all based on Mercedes with the usual positions. |
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Post by thescotsman on Jun 16, 2023 11:47:13 GMT
This guy, this woke General is ex Royal Green Jackets and they were a respected regiment. Sadly in the late 1990's or early 2000's they were amalgamated into the Rifles. Bloody sad. The reason VSO's have lost the plot is because there are no wars to fight, which is great as long as it stays that way, but it wont it never does. In the 1970's 80's and early 90's we were constantly training for war in Germany, and because of Northern Ireland we had the best FIBUA troops in the world [IDF may disagree, moot point] But it's all gone, not just the numbers but the experience, it's all gone. Today as far as the MoD and VSO's are concerned, recruiting black trans poster people is far more important than any thought of war. To be honest, we might as well scrap the army because trust me, a woke army is as much use as an officer with a fuckin map. It was around 2003-2005 and after the merger. They still considered themselves RGJ. It was them that took Pegasus Bridge wasn't it? ...d'ya know a guy called Wolfgang by any chance? Back in the day he had a wee (blue was it?) bratty wagon would drive all over the training grounds at Lüneburg/Soltau pitching up with cold beer and Bratties in all weather all year round...the guy had a knack of finding guys on those training grounds....the bloke was a bloody legend.... |
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Post by Montegriffo on Jun 16, 2023 11:53:49 GMT
I fed the Green Jackets at STANTA.It was around 2003-2005 and after the merger. They still considered themselves RGJ. It was them that took Pegasus Bridge wasn't it? ...d'ya know a guy called Wolfgang by any chance? Back in the day he had a wee (blue was it?) bratty wagon would drive all over the training grounds at Lüneburg/Soltau pitching up with cold beer and Bratties in all weather all year round...the guy had a knack of finding guys on those training grounds....the bloke was a bloody legend.... Ha, you're the second person to ask me that now.  ukpoliticsdebate.boards.net/post/109840/thread |
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Post by thescotsman on Jun 16, 2023 12:44:48 GMT
I fed the Green Jackets at STANTA. It was around 2003-2005 and after the merger. They still considered themselves RGJ. It was them that took Pegasus Bridge wasn't it? There's a thought, Monte are you the Wolfgang of Thetford? Honestly years ago there was a German chap 'Wolfgang' he could get his Bratty van anywhere on Soltau Training Area, he was a legend and lives on in army folklore. SLTA closed when I was in, post Gulf 1 mid 90's probably. Fuck knows what Wolfgang did after that, he should have an Mod Pension, he did more for moral than the NAAFI that's for sure. ....it was blue van wasn't it?
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Post by Red Rackham on Jun 17, 2023 8:32:33 GMT
There's a thought, Monte are you the Wolfgang of Thetford? Honestly years ago there was a German chap 'Wolfgang' he could get his Bratty van anywhere on Soltau Training Area, he was a legend and lives on in army folklore. SLTA closed when I was in, post Gulf 1 mid 90's probably. Fuck knows what Wolfgang did after that, he should have an Mod Pension, he did more for moral than the NAAFI that's for sure. ....it was blue van wasn't it?
....he probably moved to Tidworth... Indeed it was, Wolfgang the bratty man, a legend in his own lifetime. www.forces.net/news/wolfgang-bratty-man-legend-cold-war |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jun 17, 2023 8:33:45 GMT
There's a thought, Monte are you the Wolfgang of Thetford? Honestly years ago there was a German chap 'Wolfgang' he could get his Bratty van anywhere on Soltau Training Area, he was a legend and lives on in army folklore. SLTA closed when I was in, post Gulf 1 mid 90's probably. Fuck knows what Wolfgang did after that, he should have an Mod Pension, he did more for moral than the NAAFI that's for sure. ....it was blue van wasn't it?
....he probably moved to Tidworth... PS; are you ex forces Scotsman? |
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