By: John Green - 2nd May 2012 at 10:57
Re 1
PistonRob
May I offer a correction. I think that this is more about the Army Air Corps that the Royal Marines – but, still a fine example of Service ‘black humour’.
John Green
By: paul178 - 2nd May 2012 at 10:53
#2 Every cloud has a silver lining at least his socks will last twice as long!:)
By: tornado64 - 2nd May 2012 at 10:33
Armed forces black humour. In the Falklands (not sure whether this story is apocryphal) the Paras were under artillery fire. One unfortunate had his lower leg blown off to which he screamed ‘Aargh, I’ve lost my leg.’ To which his mate replied with appropriate sang froid ‘No you haven’t you dozy ****, it’s over there.’
taken from the factual book ” don’t cry for me seargent major ” 1983 written by journalists robert mcgowan and jeremy hands that accompanied them from being on the qe2 to actualy fighting there are lots of very humourous banter areas mostly between paras and marines a fantastic read if you can find it , just spotted my copy this morning !!
without actualy reading through the book again i think that exchange was between a para and marine wich would make it funnier but my memmory may be hazy as it is many years since i read it last
By: kirk89 - 2nd May 2012 at 10:25
I like the first image. : D
By: Dave Wilson - 2nd May 2012 at 09:05
Armed forces black humour. In the Falklands (not sure whether this story is apocryphal) the Paras were under artillery fire. One unfortunate had his lower leg blown off to which he screamed ‘Aargh, I’ve lost my leg.’ To which his mate replied with appropriate sang froid ‘No you haven’t you dozy ****, it’s over there.’
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