All I can say it they were slow learners
https://rhodesianforces.org/No1sqnavpin.html
All I can say it they were slow learners
Myself and a colleague had been tasked to decant AVPIN from 45 gallon drums into 5 gallon containers so that they could be sent to Istres /Deci for a forthcoming APC(I think it was for 92) We had prepped the 5 gallon drums for transit including all the haz markings, lead sealing the caps and rising the paperwork. The drums had been placed in a segregated area in the drum stock compound ready for collection the following day. It just so happened that the date was 5th Nov - it was either 70 or 71.
Oh, I don't know about 'poor'. He kept his pension and gratuity and stayed on as Station Warden, earning a nice CS wage, no early morning call-outs or prancing around with muskets/NBC gear, entitled to petrol coupons and use of the Naafi whilst remaining a full member of the Sgt's Mess. He was a decent guy; got me out of the pooh a couple of times.
GG, mine had a less mundane end.I finally walked away from Fiat on the Eastern Boulevard after it finally gave up the ghost. Rust ridden wreck.