Stupid GI Tricks

[Rapparee]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

You got three mags of nine rounds each! Luxury!
I was on one exercise where we had an average of 11 rounds total per man which were to last 5 days!

I guess we just don't know how to make our bullets count like you guys!

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

The same exercise some brain back in the kitchens had forgotten to place the meat order. 400 hungry young men had just 10 lbs to last them all a week!
As a "sorry" one morning they send out hot porridge which would have been great it being the middle of winter. Problem was it was absolutely riddled with weevils! I suppose they had to give us our protein somehow...

Reminds me of the story my dad told me about his reserve service in the 70s. His company had come back down from Devils Bit mountain after general field exercises, lugging the Lee-Enfield .303's and Brens through the muck (the good aul days so I'm reminded!). Apparently the cooks and higher-ups didn't anticipate that one company eating the battalions entire food allocation in a feeding frenzy. Accordingly the company and battalion sergeant called a general assembly and all they could say was "Lads, ah cmon now, ye were that feckin' hungry!?"