A Happy New Year To All Members Of Our Forum. I Hope All Your Wishes And Dreams Come True For 2026.

Thankyou To Everyone For Your Comments And Views, Making These Monthly Topics In 2025 Popular.

My Medical Team Have Told Me This Next Year Will Be One Of Huge Change As My Vascular Parkinsonism Dementia Is Progressing. I am Going To Try And Prove Them Wrong. I Have Aways Walked My Own Path, So We Shall See.

All The Very Best To You All.

I just wanted to say… Happy New Year! I hope 2026 treats you well. It’s really inspiring to read how you keep going despite everything.

Bloody infantry...keep putting your left then your right. Eat and sleep when you get a chance. Dry sock and boots. Heaven. Keep on keeping on, I.

Thanks A Lot S.

In 3 Combat Tours Of Africa, I Never Managed To Keep My Socks Dry Past The First Few Minutes, The Humidity Was A Beast  

You Understand The Life Well S.  

I., before the Navy Doc stint, I was airborne qualified in an armored recon platoon. That was the 1973 war. Yes...dry socks and clothing and a warm balaclava and kaffiyah with goggles meant not freezing one's (eye)balls off during the winter in a jeep in the desert at 3 a.m.    

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I., before the Navy Doc stint, I was airborne qualified in an armored recon platoon. That was the 1973 war. Yes...dry socks and clothing and a warm balaclava and kaffiyah with goggles meant not freezing one's (eye)balls off during the winter in a jeep in the desert at 3 a.m.    

An Army Cadet at 12 years old, A Junior Leader In The Regular Army at 17, Airborne Training too, Artic Warfare and Skiing In Finland. Took The Winter Selection For The Regiment, Injured, Nothing Major just a few Broken Bones. Left The Regulars After getting Almost As High Rank As An Enlisted man I Could (CSM), Became A PMC, Nothing Like Those Baby Rapists From Wagner, We Were Pro,s 100%. Combat Tours In Africa And The Old Yugoslavia.

The Military Is Not For Everyone, But It Seems To Have Made Us The People We Are Today

S, and gypsy2299 I Salute You Guys, Strength And Honour Always, And My Respect For Your Service.    

Agreed S.

We were saying it long before the 2000s Amongst Other Things. We Would Say other things like "Lux Et Robur" As More of a sign of Respect and Motivation to Get Into The Right Mindset Before A Patrol, to encourage Unity, this phrase indeed is connected To My Own Part Of The World, A High School and A Football Team (Soccer To Others), although i have never heard it used by Football Fans of the said Club, even though My Own Daughter Played For The Woman's Team, but they adopted it as their coat of arms. All Those Who Have Stood On A Line And Told The Bad Guys, You Shall Not Pass, Have My Utmost Respect, You And gypsy Both. We Fought For The Man To The Left And Right Of Us, They Did Exactly The Same, Warriors Get And Understand Other Warriors, As We Share A Life Lived In Uniform No Matter The Country.