Stoppage Drills Hoover Mk1
Immediate Action
1 Hoover hoovers alright
2 Hoover stops
3 “STOPPAGE”
4 Switch off
5 Bag off
6 Shake Bag
7 Bag on
8 Switch on
9 Hoover hoovers alright
Secondary Action
9 Hoover still fails to hoover
10 “STOPPAGE”
11 Switch off
12 Plug out
13 Fuse Out
14 New Fuse in
15 Plug in
16 Switch on
17 Hoover hoovers alright
Phil
Bye Eck Man. You made a Meile that!
ReplyDeleteYour better off the old way, Brush & Pan?......
ReplyDeleteJusy change the Primer Phil.
ReplyDeletePaddy
cpl john davis did that one in sharjah,but he ended it with ,hoover hooves a few more hooves,hoover stops again. Switch off, flex off,f off gerra broom.
ReplyDeleteHoover sucks okay
ReplyDeleteHoovering NOW!
When I went to the Gunnery school
Down far off Lulworth way
The pattern of my graticle
Was zeroed on an A
After my first TP
They made a fool of me
Millions of part names
That I did not know
My eyes were like
Pools of piss in the snow
Things hav'nt been the same
I've a new point of aim
I'll be damn lucky if I get a "C"
After my first TP!
Great days at Lulworth - did THREE long courses!
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Don
Cracking, mate. I was on permanent staff twice and then at ATDU with Bill Hearn
ReplyDelete(remember to end your lay in elevation !!!!!)
Phil
They tried to get me on the staff too - but I wriggled out.Gotta watch out for "droop"these days!
ReplyDeleteIn turret down position
Shell action,traverse right
Steady on
3000 3000
Men in hedgerow On
Check crest clear crest clear
Load loaded
Fire firing now
Drop 400 drop 400
Check crest clear crest clear
Load loaded
Fire firing now
and so on - bit different to all the modern jazz of today!!!!!!
Forget Crest Clearance on a Conqueror and BYEBYE baby!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of you were taught 'Indirect Fire'. I can't remember when it went out of use in tanks.
ReplyDeletePaddy
Bin it go to the MQ ,SQMS, ask for a Dyson , son NO Bag , just a vortex you can see the Crap as it
ReplyDeleteflys . Just like a Hover Craft which they said in the 60 s would replace the TANK, why Bovver with a Hoover
Paddy,
ReplyDeleteYou must be the original RAC Plotter (haha)
Phil
Ah yes -indirect fire,I do remember getting five in the air at Lulworth on a Cent(I think it was a Cent),could do the same on the old 75mm Matador,but the ammo had a nasty habit of seperating on loading,and the turret floor was full of cordite!Then you had to load a short case,elevate,fire,and hope for the best!
ReplyDeleteAnyone have any idea how a modern fire order goes?????(maybe its no longer an order - more of a request?)
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Don
The accepted expert on 'indiret fire' at Lulworth was a character ,WO11 Paddy Hyland. He had been at Lulworth for ages and indeed finished his time there .His mode of transport was a M/C which he preferred to a car. Just before leaving he secured a job at the local neuclear plant and he regaled us with the news that he was about to get far more pay for doing a less strenuous job. Does anyone remember him?
ReplyDeletePaddy
I do remember one student(?)who would have put the first HE round down on the Forward Observer had the instructor not been quick on the uptake!I always thought bracketing with HE was more "entertaining" than AP shooting?I remember once at Hohne having 5 "hangfires"in a session,boy was I glad when they were carted away,some of that old ammo was fit for the dump!
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Don