One fascinating feature of multinational operations was the way rations would be swapped around, most nations were horrified at the UKSFs' practice of dandyfunking it, everything goes into the same pot and come out as the most exotic porridge you've ever had. Chocolate curried rice pudding with a cr...

When I first put me uniform on - 50 years ago - it was WWII battledress, and the ratpacks were from the Korean war. They weren't the oldest ever sampled, David Attenborough discovered some of the oldest tins ever made in one of Shackleton's camps, hand-soldered tins, and the food, preserved for a hu...

Hi, sodjer, someone sold you a pup there - I knew the designer of the SA80 and handled the prototype during my TA PC course at the Warminster School of Infantry in 1978 (passed out top, then walked away from Special Forces as they wanted me to take over from someone the Command had just sold out to ...