T2K quotes

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman

Inspired by James' excellent series of posts I think it would eb fun if we put quotes, either from our own characters in T2k games or just in general from the twiligght war. Who knows, they may even appear in people's work here?

"Do you know the best feature of the chally tank? It's not the gun, the sights or the fancy armour. I'll tell you mate, the best feature was the bivvie, a little unit in the back of the turret for boiling water. Most of our armoured vehicles had summat similar, even the old saladins. The smart crews loaded up as much water as could be carried.

There was this one scrap we got into during operation Advent Crown, we where engaged by polish arty outside some town with too many z's in it to pronounce and the buggers thought it'd be fun to drop chemical rounds. Well a chally is built for NBC so we sealed up and got orders to sit tight, two days we where stuck in that bloody tank, two days! Thanks to that bivvie we could have hot food and even shave! Shaving in a tank, well mate that's an art form i can tell you."

Sergeant Charles Blake, Queen's Dragoon Guards (first published in "Rats at war").

I actually feel honoured and want to say thanks for all the kind comments.

I'm going to nick that one if you don't mind for the revised UK Sourcebook I'm working on. In Iraq vehicles were listed as VOR (vehicle off road) if a BV went down as they were so essential. I remember a US general remarking the BV was the best feature on a Challenger. I know the first thing we pack for exercises is a burco. For those interested all British AFVs have a BV but only the Fox has a CD player!

A few quotes I've not used yet (regard as a preview):

"These new recruits we got were really poor, most just knew a few words of Russian and as for their skills, well they could only see cover if it was 10 cm tall. Us old men (we must have had 6 months on them) needed to use all our skills to keep some of those boys alive until their second battle." Private Maxim Denavich - inspired by a line in All Quiet on the Western Front

"I know that in order to beat the enemy we need to do some dirty tricks. What keeps me awake at night though is the thought 'what happens if I wake up tomorrow and realise I am worse than he is?'" Lt Harry Lambert 21 SAS (Artists Rifles)

"I've seen too many atrocities in this war, 5% of soldiers are like saints, 5% are just evil and the remaining 90% just go along with them."

"Even when we get back, do you think the war will ever end for us after what we have seen and done? I know that more soldiers committed suicide after the Falklands than died there, I hate to think how many people PTSD will kill after all this..."

"I got asked why I used a .45, I told them because Colt don't make a .46 yet."

"I remember Albert Einstein was asked what weapons he thought World War Three with. He replied he didn't know but World War Four would be fought with clubs and spears."