Nothing to do with trains or modelling, but just to bring a smile to your face.


https://youtu.be/XSk6C9JAYpo

It worked! Thanks David.

Very good, shame about the annoying music 

PML 

no good them challenging our local plods, you never see them outside !
also, doubt the whole county has enough vehicles or plods on duty to match this display.

bit worried about the dog handler clip, RSPCA might want to talk to them about that as long as enough people donate to them for the air fare, oh of course, you can't fly anywhere at the moment.

mind you, there are a few 'officers' on there who I would gladly be frisked by 

did at one point wonder if they were going to do the full monty 

Get down in the lockdown!

I really enjoyed that but think the South Africans have a lot to learn

I have to agree Mick - I think the South Africans need a new choreographer and there were a few mistakes. Although one of the mistakes did remind me of a mistake I made when I was doing my basic training. On the parade ground, the Drill Sergeant shouted "Salute to the left" - what did I do? Lifted my left arm  . I quickly realised my mistake and corrected it, but of course, the Drill Sergeant spotted it - his swagger stick came down rather heavily on top of my helmet!

Still waiting to see if An Garda Síochána have responded to the challenge.

Quote from: dannyboy on January 17, 2021, 11:23:22 AM
I quickly realised my mistake and corrected it, but of course, the Drill Sergeant spotted it - his swagger stick came down rather heavily on top of my helmet!

That must have been painful, but great accuracy on his behalf

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 17, 2021, 11:36:54 AM

That must have been painful, but great accuracy on his behalf

Took me an hour to prise my helmet off afterwards.  . Sgt Tommy Butler BEM, who died a couple of years ago, was a  on the parade ground, but a lovely bloke. RIP.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDNLmQHH4LU

 
but I think he would have to turn the volume down, and preface each command with 'would you mind'

mor e case of Sgt Wilson these days  :'(

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 17, 2021, 11:36:54 AM

Quote from: dannyboy on January 17, 2021, 11:23:22 AM
I quickly realised my mistake and corrected it, but of course, the Drill Sergeant spotted it - his swagger stick came down rather heavily on top of my helmet!

That must have been painful, but great accuracy on his behalf

I could never understand how, when there were maybe 90-100 recruits on the parade ground being drilled,

and the DI shouted 'YOU - YOU HORRIBLE APOLOGY FOR AN AIRMAN'

there was never, ever any doubt as to which of us it was 

it came down on you like a mortar shell, and you knew exactly that it was you he meant  :'(

serious question ....

what were DI's promoted to ?

almost all I came across were 6ft odd and built like brick  outhouses

so, cpl > sgt, no probs.

maybe even f/sgt

next promotion should have been WO ?

but SWOs all seemed to be 5ft sod all, though worse than DI's if that was possible.

so was being a DI a dead end job, and that was why they were so 

RAF DI's were "general duties " staff, the lowest of the low, lowest pay band worst promotion chances. No qualifications required.
So they were LAC, SAC, guard room dogsbodies, then they got two stripes up and started getting their own back. Baby hitler's generally.
If posted to a training camp they were the DI's
Eventually some might have become the STation Warrant Officer..

We had a SWO who got banned from technical buildings as a danger to personal!! He wouldnt accept not polishing rubber safety mats, and on one occasion crept up behind someone working on high voltage equipment to shout at him because he had one hand ( correctly) in his pocket..

The trade doesn't exist now, so who does drill I'm not sure but I suspect the RAF regiment.
That being said as a corporal radar technician nearly 40 years ago, I got lumbered a couple of times with marching over a hundred men..

Baby officers turned up from all over the place to get saluted,  since when do you find baby officers wandering around a peri track mid morning.. ? And they were on different sides so getting my position to salute and give the eyes right or left was a right pain..

when I was at Muharraq in the late 60's, the snowdrops on the barriers had 'naturs' [locally recruited auxiliaries] on the barriers with them to deal with locals.

we fur box mechanics just shouted and that worked for us  , well the dogs barked as well.

any way, one of the naturs wanted to learn how to greet an officer, so some of the lads taught him how to salute, and the 'correct' greeting ....

needless to say, came the day when a very pale and lowly officer approached the barrier, and the natur was allowed to deal with him on his own   

came to attention!
smart salute !
" off sir, 1250 please!"

snowdrop needless to say curled up in the corner of the sentry box trying to contain bodily functions 

same Nature was also taught that when a donkey went past with a cart, and it's ears were up, it was a horse, ears down, donkey.

interesting reports of horses pulling carts full of seaweed  :'(

Just to bring you all up to date -

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0202/1194547-gardai-respond-to-swiss-police-dance-challenge/

Apparently the clip shown is a 'taster' of what is to come.