With all due respect to Neil and everyone that’s out there working (it’s your choice and I do understand the temptation, there have been times in life where staying alive wasn’t the most important factor to me), in case the last video wasn’t enough to put people off going out there, this is what happens when a truck load of fuel and some explosives are combined …
Iknow i’m going to get in so much trouble 4 saying this…but…
If i was stuck in that truck…with that guy…I think…i would…happily become a suicide bomber…there and then!!!
Sorry…but the typical hilli billi American ■■■■■ he was knocking out…Oh please…
Not surprising the people were ■■■■■■■■■■ him knocking out the electricity…getting it reconnected ain’t like ere u know…
Interesting video though…glad he got out alive…and must give him a lot of respect for relatively holding his cool…(and camera)…
Mike-C:
Not the least being an Army disability and a knock back from the TA !!!
Left because I was a ■■■■■■■, yeah but a STAB? Me? Got the wrong person there mate.
aimee:
harry:
I think you would have to be there to appreciate the situation they found themselves in.Absolutely.
I knows there’s lots of rules they have to follow as to what to do in particular situations too.
And as soon as you start to hear the crack and the pings, all those rules go straight out the window.
Still trying to work out why the hell he wasn’t driving out of there foot to the floor and if needs be, shoving the useless clown in the Humvee out of the way.
Conor:
Mike-C:
Not the least being an Army disability and a knock back from the TA !!!Left because I was a ■■■■■■■, yeah but a STAB? Me? Got the wrong person there mate.
It wasn’t a critisism. (i’m guessing a STAB is something to do with the TA?). I thought i remembered you posting a whle back that you applied and was refused? Ok, i may be wrong.
I applied to join the TA when i was 38 and the cut off age was 39, i didn’t follow it through. Even though i did apply i was worrying about the age (my age), and that was the reason i backed out in the end. The reason i wanted to join the TA
n the first place because i knew some guys who had been in it and they rated it highly and i thought if i could experience different countries/situations etc. and undergo more training it would add to my experience and resume. I also made enquiries about that driving out in Iraq thing, and they are quite stringent. A big no no from my missus although i was game for it (i thought). After watching that video, you would be hard pushed to get me to drive abroad!, and i
speak as someone who has drove into a gippo camp and banged on a door to wake someone up to get paid and wouldn’t take no for an answer!!!
S’OK, easy to forget who has done what on here.
Mike-C:
I speak as someone who has drove into a gippo camp and banged on a door to wake someone up to get paid and wouldn’t take no for an answer!!!
Braver bloke than me.
Conor:
Still trying to work out why the hell he wasn’t driving out of there foot to the floor and if needs be, shoving the useless clown in the Humvee out of the way.
Me too. Fuel tank hit and empty maybe? He did say he couldn’t move?
Conor:
And as soon as you start to hear the crack and the pings, all those rules go straight out the window.
Yeah, the rules I was meaning was stuff about not stopping to help another driver, leave it to the military to get them out etc.
Mike-C Dunno what stopped him ,but when you dive on the cab floor its a given that the thing won`t go. I watched with horror as they proceeded down that suburban street alerting all the local militia who knew it was a dead end. A court martial at least for that one.
There’s a relevant article on the Insider…CLICK HERE TO READ
That report takes your breath away…It may do something for the Haliburton recruitment figures tho…
Mike-C:
Conor:
northernirishinlpool:
if you where offered the right money would you go there,Yeah, I’d go there ifd I didn’t have the kids. Was there the first time around. It’s an adrenaline junkies nirvana…you get one hell of a rush. It makes you feel like you’re alive and not permanently one step from the grave as driving in the UK does. Takes a certain kind of nutter though. There is absolutely no rush in this world like the one you get from going out knowing people are trying to kill you.
I have issues don’t I?
Not the least being an Army disability and a knock back from the TA !!!
And memory loss 
Conor Wrote
Left because I was a ■■■■■■■, yeah but a STAB? Me? Got the wrong person there mate.
But in this tread he wrote http://trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8755&highlight=pleb
They wouldn’t let me in the TA and looking at the plebs that currently make up the British Army, I don’t think I’d want to.
By the way STAB means "Stupid Territorial Army B**tard. Many TA soldiers are currently serving alongside their regular counterparts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also in this thread Conor wrote http://trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18887&highlight=army
WE’re unfortunate enough to have the Army driving school around here. They do a lot of convoy training all at sub 40 MPH speeds. Wasn’t too much of a problem in the past as there used to be just 4-5 vehicles in the convoy. Today there were 10…all crawling along the A614 at peak time stretched over a mile.
To which my reply was
Be fair, they may all be in Iraq or Afghanistan next year. Where if they get their convoy drills wrong and get separated, they could end up being captured, tortured and murdered. But hey, as long as Conor doesn’t get held up on the way home it will be all alright
What’s it’s to be Conor, practice convoy drills in East Yorkshire or get killed in Iraq.
harry:
That report takes your breath away…It may do something for the Haliburton recruitment figures tho…
Eye opener for me Harry, i didn’t quite realise how ‘on their own’ them guys where over there. I wouldn’t know whats worse, being stuck in that cab without a gun or with one.
Conor:
Braver bloke than me.
Oh, don’t get me wrong…i was nervous to say the least!!
With one. You sleep easier ,I can tell you that.( Always carry a fire stick when in the jungle ).From the age of 19 to 21 I slept most of the time with a Browning 9mm auto under my pillow. When I first did international I would be wakened in the night & reach for my gun but of course you were not allowed to carry one. It took years for that feeling to wear off. It would save all the petty crime that we put up with now if they thought we were armed.Blow a few faces off and the word soon gets round. But I had seen the rigs on Niels thread that were armored up to the hilt. The Mercs those boys drove wouldn`t stand up to the rock throwing kids from the back streets of Rabat. Tragic stories but kinda bonkers. Logic thrown out window. The blind leading the blind…
You will find that if you carry a weapon you never have to use it…Its just insurance ,really.
I think calling TA lads/lasses STABS is bang out of order.
In my mind there just as tough as regulars if not tougher ,
having to keep down a job in civi street and bring up a family
then go off to war.
Some army lads when they leave the army cant handle civilian life
and wish they were back in the army i think that tells you how tough life outside
the army can be. 
They become institutionalized. They miss their mates. Its the same if a patient is kept in Hospital for any length of time…They don`t feel confident about returning home…
ron9516:
Conor WroteLeft because I was a ■■■■■■■, yeah but a STAB? Me? Got the wrong person there mate.
But in this tread he wrote http://trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8755&highlight=pleb
They wouldn’t let me in the TA and looking at the plebs that currently make up the British Army, I don’t think I’d want to.
By the way STAB means "Stupid Territorial Army B**tard. Many TA soldiers are currently serving alongside their regular counterparts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also in this thread Conor wrote http://trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18887&highlight=army
WE’re unfortunate enough to have the Army driving school around here. They do a lot of convoy training all at sub 40 MPH speeds. Wasn’t too much of a problem in the past as there used to be just 4-5 vehicles in the convoy. Today there were 10…all crawling along the A614 at peak time stretched over a mile.
To which my reply was
Be fair, they may all be in Iraq or Afghanistan next year. Where if they get their convoy drills wrong and get separated, they could end up being captured, tortured and murdered. But hey, as long as Conor doesn’t get held up on the way home it will be all alright
What’s it’s to be Conor, practice convoy drills in East Yorkshire or get killed in Iraq.
What are you wittering on about? That link you put was a reply where someone said that you had to join the TA to do that driving. As I was a ■■■■■■■ at the time, I wouldn’t pass a medical in the first place so how the hell can I be a knockback if I’ve never applied?
And it’s not the TA who do the convoy training in East Yorkshire. Also the convoy training they do around here is as much use as a chocolate fireguard. I could point out why but as you’ve obviusly been in the forces, actually done the driver training course at Leconfield and know more than me, you already know the answer to that.
And yes, there are TA who are serving alongside regulars but for those who aren’t ex regular themselves, they’ve had a lot less training and experience but it doesn’t mean they’re not up to a basic standard. And yes, a great many of them are quite useless because they spend the weekends, as I’ve seen first hand when on attachment, tossing it off in the bar spouting the biggest pile of bull you’ve ever heard , for the non ex regular, or telling war stories for the ex regs.
You a STAB or something? You seem to have one hell of a bee in your bonnet.
jacknife:
I think calling TA lads/lasses STABS is bang out of order.
Can’t see why. It’s no different to the Royal Marines and the Paras having a go at each other…it’s all in the spirit of jest.
jacknife:
In my mind there just as tough as regulars if not tougher ,
having to keep down a job in civi street and bring up a family
then go off to war.
And I suppose all those married quarters at barracks are just there for show…Do you know, I can’t recall any TA soldiers having to worry about being shot by the IRA at the local train station when on their way home from work in the late 80’s like we had to.
jacknife:
Some army lads when they leave the army cant handle civilian life
and wish they were back in the army i think that tells you how tough life outside
the army can be.
THat’s more to do with institutionalisation than anything else.