| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Exercise Aftermath |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:29:22 +0000 |
>>>>>[Let's see, it's past ENDEX, so that makes it Golden Carrot and
Stick Wiv Nails In time... We take "carrot and stick" a stage further in
the Regiment, the carrot's made of Gold(TM) and the stick has big spikes
in it.
My apologies for the delay, by the way, but we felt you all did so well
you deserved a full mess meeting to decide the awards.
A Golden Carrot to Imp and his squad, for Most Improved Teamwork During
An Exercise. Glad we could help, guys, you came in good and went out
better. Skull's team are close runners-up in this category, but came in
so lethal anyway there was less room for improvement.
A Stick Wiv Nails In for Quinn, for not telling any of you she was one
of our War Reserve Force officers until you saw her in uniform, or for
mentioning that she's actually a Knight of the Thistle. I am given to
understand Lieutenant the Lady Rodriguez, for so she is better known
here, finds such small jests endlessly amusing.
A SWNI for "if I put a silencer on my weapon nobody'll hear it" Shiftboy
- 'nobody' including the sensor of his laser engagement simulator, which
resolutely refused to fire even though he was phut-phut-phutting away
like crazy. It won't shoot unless it hears a round fire, Shifty...
A GC for Lynch, for working out how to program the pulses from his eye
rangefinder so that our engagement simulators "heard" it as direct hits
from 155mm artillery fire. It might have been cheating, but it was still
clever. _Really_ clever would have been working out how to use an eye
rangefinder to fire _real_ 155mm HE...
A SWNI for Lilith, for sparking a news scare about escaped wild animals
- some civilians saw her while she was out hunting rabbits and we had
The Sun and The News Of The World crawling all over the place looking
for "The Catterick Wildcat".
A GC for Imp for drinking the RSM under the table on the beer-and-curry
crawl.
A SWNI for Skull's team for being nearly as hard-core and deadly as us.
The lads appreciate a little competition.
A GC for Skull for having a cool attitude and sharing some, ah, insights
into field interrogation technique with us.
A SWNI for Stormwind, whose marksmanship brought new meaning to the term
"spray and pray" and delighted ammo manufacturers everywhere with the
sales prospects he offered them.
A GC for Stormwind, for imaginitive and effective use of magic,
especially some illusion work and cunning use of spirits and Watchers.
Stick to the spells, Stormy...
A SWNI for Quinn, for those "Children of Frypp, Messiah" speeches during
the hostage scenario. We offered the idea, she ran with it.
A GC to Easy: the only person ever to beat Titch arm-wrestling. (Most
people don't get to keep their arms, let alone win...)
A SWNI for Lynch, Lilith, Blade and Quinn, for humour above and beyond
the call of duty or reason.
A GC for Skull, for not only maintaining a straight face and calm
composure after the first mouthful of Vindaloo Extra, but for finishing
the whole dish without visibly breaking into a sweat and for keeping it
all down as well. He only dipped out on the Grand Prize because he
didn't order a second helping...
A SWNI to Quinn for starting the napkin war during that meal.
A GC for Whitetyger for listening, learning, and demonstrating plenty of
commonsense to compensate for a degree of inexperience.
A SWNI for Easy, for hospitalising those civilians for making unwanted
advances, though the hand up your skirt was certainly provocation.
A GC for Stormwind for breaking up that fight before Easy killed one or
both of them. At least I presume she was going to kill them, she
certainly wasn't pulling her punches.
Anytime you want to drop down to Cwrt-y-Gollen to collect your prizes,
feel free to do so, you're listed with the ModPlod as "good guys". And a
few of you expressed an interest in completing P Company: from what you
showed us, you'd only need to do the final two or three weeks. Contact
me or Lady Rodriguez if you're interested and we'll sponsor you for
it.]<<<<<
-- Colonel James R. Clarke-Jervoise
Commanding Officer
Third Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
