Was NCO in cadets at school - quartermaster.
We used to regularly go on exercises with the Army and the Reserves.
Cas-evac was always good fun - usually riding point in an ambulance thru the bush to get casualties. If you were unlucky you were made up as a casualty with some horrific wound and dumped somewhere out in the bush (sometimes with a radio) and spending hours waiting for recon to find you and us to trundle along in said ambo to come and save you.

Head counts weren't always top of the priority list.
Anyhoo - 1 night after a long day the "make up squad" is regaling us about 1 of the leg wounds they'd done. After a couple more sips of beer one of us ponders this for a moment & then asks "Who exactly was that on." "Oh, Johannes Schmidt." says they. "That's funny" says us, "we never picked him up." & then it turns out neither had any of the other weekend-warrior ambo crews.
Cue a mad rush to the landies and off everyone goes to find him. We tried getting the crew that had dropped him off on the blower but apparently the pub was causing too much interference. None of the recon guys had seen him either.
Now we were in the shit. Game over on account of lost casualty.
We found him wandering near the road about 3ks. from base. He was pissed off but after a few libations saw the humour in the situation.
Our CO however didn't. Always try to leave the field with the same no. of players that you started with!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 4 Jun 2012, 9:48, Reply)