it used to be the standard bullshit tale of cadets and OTC bores
but I'm sure it deffo happened to her ex-oswald
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 21 May 2014, 18:43, 1 reply)

It might have done, It IS an old standard like you say.
But given the sheer fucking incompetence of quite lot of Ruperts combined with the mentality of armourers when it comes to requisition forms, it's pretty much bound to have happened for real at least once.
I remember Mark Thomas doing a bit on one of his shows a while back where he'd got a FOI request actually answered, that said that something like 70% of serving frontline infantrymen at that time couldn't even pass basic marksmanship.
I still remember RAF air trafficers on my first Falklands tour whinging before an exercise because the armourers had told them that they'd have to clean their weapons themselves. "But none of us have done anything like that since basic".
:/
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 21 May 2014, 19:22, closed)

We had a STAB deployed with us
Not only had he not done any radio procedure, so useless for signals, he knew nothing about his rifle either how to shoot or maintain it.
We felt sorry for him as some biff up the ladder had okay'd his deployment.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 22 May 2014, 10:58, closed)

These were full-timers.
A few years back I knew an Air Traffic Controller who had to be taught radio procedure on deployment because "But I'm DSATCO back home, I NEVER have to actually control".
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 22 May 2014, 11:04, closed)