Touche Bossi!
Yes it all come‘s the quality of instruction!
As Napoleon said;There is no such thing as a bad soldier only bad General‘s.
Over my 28yrs I have been instructed by Korean Vet‘s who were very harsh when you F‘d up.
By The Pat‘s who did the same.
You learnt or you were punted!No,if‘s and‘s or but‘s!
But as Militia we must strive to beat the Reg.‘s on course just because they see us as Militia Plug‘s!
(at my age now I‘m proud of being called a Militia Plug because I‘ve forgotten more than they now now
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Yonk‘s ago in the Wack when they had the M/Cpl Mess I was on my 6A Engineer Course.
A Reg Force Course which is close on 3 month‘s cramed into 6 week‘s!!!
We are in the mess studying and helping each othe out on bridge classification or some other subject
When uncalled comment‘s were made from certain Reg.Force M/Cpl.‘s in the Mess about Militia Plug‘s etc.
It whent on and they picked on the young guy!!
I lost it!!
Hey we are here to learn,if you can‘t give us the grace of learning why should we bother!!
All of a sudden one of them questioned my T.I.
(Time In)
DOH!!! WRONG QUESTION!!!!!!
Me;HEY **** HEAD I‘VE SERVED WITH 3FD SQN BEFORE IT BECAME 1 C.E.R.!!
Who the F are you to question me! and what‘s your problem?
We are here to learn but with your attitude why should we bother!!
The mess whent quiet!
After me pointing out my T.I. in trhe Wack.
Then they started sucking up,and the funny thing was one of them was a cook(Spanky) who came from Pet. knew my brother who was in Pet as a Zipper Head at the time.
After that we had our own table‘s to study and some of the Reg‘s even came over to help and give advice.
Yes we reservist‘s do go through **** when dealing with the Reg.‘s.
Do as I have alway‘s done say ;I‘m here to learn,teach me if I screw up let me know!!
You won‘t go wrong.