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Offline Scudnut

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A Very Lucky Soldier
« on: April 14, 2011, 13:18:30 »
I think I'd be having a word with someone after that.

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 13:24:46 »
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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2011, 13:57:35 »
Balls of steel kept on with the drill. :thumb:

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2011, 13:59:12 »
Bet he was well annoyed - showing his bald head when his beret was shot off
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Offline 73bm73

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2011, 14:15:09 »
unbelieveable... :shock:

Offline Sven

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2011, 14:17:27 »
:shock:

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Offline Fatbelly

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2011, 14:32:10 »
The point is, what a feckin' stupid drill to make blokes point guns at each other, even blanks can be darned dangerous.

Offline Scudnut

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2011, 14:42:29 »
Quote from: "Fatbelly"
The point is, what a feckin' stupid drill to make blokes point guns at each other, even blanks can be darned dangerous.

They certainly can at that range, don't these weapons need a BFA? Surely they're not live rounds?
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Offline Squirrelciv

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2011, 18:26:01 »
I reckon it must have been displaced air from a blank.


More to the point, what were you looking up on youtube to find that clip!! :shock:
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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2011, 18:41:03 »
I suspect someone would have received a bit of a slap later...
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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2011, 18:41:45 »
I'm afraid I'm guilty of nicking it from another forum.  :shy:
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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2011, 20:37:42 »
Bit of a daft drill, having a line of soldiers in FRONT of another line of soldiers discharging weapons!  :shock:

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2011, 08:28:34 »
Had to have been a blank. Had that have been live rounds I would have not kept my cool had my beret just been shot off!!!!!   :wtf:

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Re: A Very Lucky Soldier
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2011, 10:34:42 »
ha, ha! Americanism filter again! Great = C ool