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gunshy said:It helps but I can't fully agree... it depends on the quality of man in it!
Yup you nailed that on the head!
gunshy said:It helps but I can't fully agree... it depends on the quality of man in it!
Roy Harding said:...
I joined the Army (regular force) in 1977, at 17 years of age - I was infantry and was sent to Dundurn as, basically, a labourer supporting the Militia Concentration taking place at that place that summer - I imagine this was some "summer tasking" that my Battalion needed to fill.
The regular force Station Warrant Officer (also known as a “Base Chief"? or “Base RSM" in other places/times) in Dundurn was an Engineer MWO, who happened to have two daughters (the plot thickens!!).
During one of my regular JR's “incidents", I was placed in custody, after having struck the Camp Orderly Corporal. The “Duty Field Officer" that night was none other than the Station Warrant Officer. One of the duties of a Duty Field Officer is to check in on incarcerated folks to make sure they're OK (not committing suicide or some other nefarious activity). The MWO in question took a shine to me (for reasons that remain unknown - unfortunately he has now passed on and cannot be asked), and invited me to lunch at his PMQ later that week.
I attended his PMQ and had lunch, and met his daughters. The younger one was just 18 and had recently graduated high school.
Three months later, the younger daughter moved in with me - there's a lesson here for Fathers of daughters who meet dashing young soldiers - the lesson being NEVER take a “shine" to a dashing young soldier and invite him home!!
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gunshy said:Well Roy if your still with his daughter, maybe the shining wasn't such a bad thing...
Jingo said:Congrats for next year's anniversary...that's a long time to be with someone... Heck it's longer than i've been alive!! ;D
gunshy said:I have always wished him well and hoped he's found a life of happiness.
Similar story here. Remembrance day 1994. Late evening and a group of us were making the rounds of the local establishments.patriot1112 said:Met at a bar. I was drunk,
Sometimes that's all you can do Gunshy...