Armed Forces Day 2012

[Tez3]

A good day all round the UK, we went to an afternoon of displays and fun raising on Catterick Garrison. The Scots Guards were marching through Dundee after getting the Freedom of the City,wonderful sight, I watched them rehearse on the parade square the other day. They will be drinking the place dry now, hope a couple of them won't , they're fighting tomorrow for us!

 

[Tez3]

The troops in Afghan.

 

[Tez3]

Red Arrows

 

[Tez3]

The Matelots and the Bootnecks.

 

[Sukerkin]

Good stuff, Tez :tup:

In a different universe where I disobeyed my father I might even have been in that last picture there . Might-have-beens are the worst ...

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Nice photos! And although I know they can't see it, I thank them all for their service to your country.

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I'm in the lower left of the photo above. Circa 1981, Camp Pendleton, California.

 

[Carol]

Shutout to my niece, Sgt. E, who has been activated and deployed to Afghanistan.

 

[Scott T]

Tez, you're in Dundee?

 

[oftheherd1]

My respects to all who serve your country in its military!

 

[Tez3]

Tez, you're in Dundee?

No, I'm in Catterick Garrison. Off shortly to Dalkeith where we have a fight night, our martial arts club is on the Scots Guards' barracks, lots of our lads are from that regt though we have students from the other regiments and a few civvies as well.

 

[Tez3]

Our club's conditioning coach in the wet bearskin!. Photo's of SGs sent by him. The Brigade including most of our martial arts students are off for 7 month tour of Afghan in September.

 

[Sukerkin]

Shutout to my niece, Sgt. E, who has been activated and deployed to Afghanistan.

May she keep safe, dear lady.

 

[granfire]

The Matelots and the Bootnecks.

The who?

 

[granfire]

It is so freaking hot here, the thought of full uniforms makes me want to pass out...let alone bear skin hats (wet bearskins?)

We are having triple digits temps here...the Atlanta baseball club hosted a bunch of soldiers today...the new uniforms re really something, you can't even roll the sleeves up anymore....