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i have only ever had ink based fingerprints - so i cant be one of the 34 million in the database....

 

 

I also got inked for my finger prints - they just scan them in and load them up in to their data base.

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Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are.

Tell my boetie Wouter and my other boetie Koos that being in the

Army beats working for Oom Piet by a mile. Tell them to join up quick

before maybe all of the places are filled.

 

I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly

6 am, but am now starting to enjoying sleeping late.

Tell Wouter and Koos all you do before breakfast is smooth your

cot and shine some thing. No varke to feed, no cows to milk, no mampoer to

mix or braai wood to split. Practically nothing. Manne get to shave

but it is not so bad, there's warm water.

 

Breakfast is strong on fruit juice, pap, eggs, bacon, etc, but short on steaks, boerewors, chops, potatoes and other regular food like vetkoek.

But tell my boeties you can always sit between two dorpies that

live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon, when you get fed again.

 

These city boys can't walk much. We go on "route" marches, which

the Sersant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it is

not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to

our postbox at home. Then the dorpies from the city get sore feet and

we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice, but awful flat.

 

This next will kill my boeties with laughter. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a dassie's head and doesn't move at

all. And it isn't shooting back at you like those bliksemse Venter boys

from the next door plaas. All you have to do is lie there all rustig like and hit it. You don't even have to make your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

 

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get

to wrestle with the dorpies from the city. I have to be really careful though, they break real easy. It's not like fighting with Swart Duivel our old bull at home.

 

I'm about the best they got in this platoon except for that Groot Jan Jordaan from somewhere in the Noord Transvaal. He joined the same time as me. But I am only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he is 6'8 and weighs over 300 pounds, dry.

 

Be sure to tell my boeties to hurry and join before other okes find out about the Army setup and come stampeding in!

 

Your loving daughter,

Ester

Posted (edited)

Something to put in your 'book' TNT1 ;)

 

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That's so weird. I'm busy talking to a dude that "God" spoke to on the weekend past on another forum right now.

 

Edit: But the Hulk just came and told me to behave.

Edited by TNT1

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