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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Aye, see your point, that said though, I have a very good mate who is exactly that. Ex REME Armourer, he got out & got himself accredited & qualified as a "Wafen Meister" & now runs his very own business here. Not bad for a Yorkingshire lad really & when I visit his workshop I get to have a nose at & handle various weaponry.

Your whats known a a lucky beggur, my old mate, Sandbags, joined up an was trained as an armourer, they wanted him to stay on as an instructor, but he werend havin any o that, there he was June 6th running across the beach with all his mates to find shelter som where, he was in his 2nd childhood when I used to pick him up and take him to Fulwood with me, he sit in a chair between racks of rifles touching them grinning like a Cheshire cat, he started fetchin a bottle of linseed oil with him and he'd spend ages wi sum owd 4x2 patches rubbing woodwork over. Poor owd Sandy he's passed on now. One ot sadest things during last 6 months he didn;t know who I was, he kept seyin who arti, sed its thi mate whizz-bang (thad were mi nickname to him) o aye I know whizz-bang bud tha nod im. Wid bin friends for oer 50 years, lifes a bastard at times.