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[Patchelicious]

My troops hated me in basics. I liked taking inspections. My favourite trick after inspection was to shout "everyone get inside your beds". It's amazing how many only used one sheet and couldn't lie down properly.

 

My two corporals went one better. They would have the troops make their beds up outside the bungalow, then make them bring them back inside. Of course the doorway was too narrow and they had to turn the beds sideways.

 

We had a good laugh about it

Didn’t you get enough attention as a child?

[Grebel]

We did some nasty things to our corporal while he was sleeping. Then he did some nasty stuff to us while we were sleeping....

 

I remember using starch, shoe brushes, an iron, pegs, my teeth and my hands to make a bed. Now I just use my hands.

[Baldrick]

Didn’t you get enough attention as a child?

They learnt very quickly not to take shortcuts

[Kranswurm]

My troops hated me in basics. I liked taking inspections. My favourite trick after inspection was to shout "everyone get inside your beds". It's amazing how many only used one sheet and couldn't lie down properly.

 

My two corporals went one better. They would have the troops make their beds up outside the bungalow, then make them bring them back inside. Of course the doorway was too narrow and they had to turn the beds sideways.

 

We had a good laugh about it

Your bed would be the first I'd gypo

[Eddy Gordo]

[Hairy]

Sell the Fox and buy another DVO!

[Hairy]

[porqui]

My troops hated me in basics. I liked taking inspections. My favourite trick after inspection was to shout "everyone get inside your beds". It's amazing how many only used one sheet and couldn't lie down properly.

 

My two corporals went one better. They would have the troops make their beds up outside the bungalow, then make them bring them back inside. Of course the doorway was too narrow and they had to turn the beds sideways.

 

We had a good laugh about it

 

And you still think it is funny !!

[coppi]

My troops hated me in basics. I liked taking inspections. My favourite trick after inspection was to shout "everyone get inside your beds". It's amazing how many only used one sheet and couldn't lie down properly.

 

My two corporals went one better. They would have the troops make their beds up outside the bungalow, then make them bring them back inside. Of course the doorway was too narrow and they had to turn the beds sideways.

 

We had a good laugh about it

One of those guys ...........my this my that........is it also YOUR staff when you  too have a boss and don't pay their salaries.........

SADF corporals and prefects at school.............full of self importance. Most are probably losers now..............

Edited July 29, 2019 by coppi

[Baldrick]

I still have contact with some of the guys and they are doing ok

 

My guys learnt not to take shortcuts. As a result they got to do things a lot quicker, and had the payoff of getting extra credits such as weekend passes and not having to stand for guard duty.

[DJR]

One of those guys ...........my this my that........is it also YOUR staff when you  too have a boss and don't pay their salaries.........

SADF corporals and prefects at school.............full of self importance. Most are probably losers now..............

One of the best things an NCO could do, was to identify with his troops. If they were just slabs of meat, there was less of an incentive to make sure they got through it all alive and sane. If they were family, so to speak, then the Corporal made sure "his" troops learnt what to do, to do their jobs well and to stay alive! It might not have been fun at all times, but it was a system that worked most of the time. My 2c (And, please understand, I am not condoning abuse!)

[Eddy Gordo]

[Eddy Gordo]

[Quagga]

I still have contact with some of the guys and they are doing ok

 

My guys learnt not to take shortcuts. As a result they got to do things a lot quicker, and had the payoff of getting extra credits such as weekend passes and not having to stand for guard duty.

Keep digging, and trying to justify your behavior.

Making a bed does nothing for a troop in combat.

 

There were many other important things that you could have focused on.

[corrie.kuilder]

 

If you have been in similar training circumstances, and enviroments you will understand. Ja sure, making beds does nothing for combat training, but it instill discipline, something which is essential in contact and patrol. The jokes made on troops/trainees are just that, jokes, and those are the things being remembered. And most of the times, trainees/troops get back at their trainer, in a joke. Then obviously opfk will follow, but during time off, they socialize and have a drink together. When it's work, work hard, when it's play time, play hard.

Edited July 29, 2019 by corrie.kuilder

[Quagga]

 

If you have been in similar training circumstances, and enviroments you will understand. Ja sure, making beds does nothing for combat training, but it instill discipline, something which is essential in contact and patrol. The jokes made on troops/trainees are just that, jokes, and those are the things being remembered. And most of the times, trainees/troops get back at their trainer, in a joke. Then obviously opfk will follow, but during time off, they socialize and have a drink together. When it's work, work hard, when it's play time, play hard.

Sure but there was not reason to take it as far as they DID. So what if you want to make the bed and use one sheet while sleeping on the floor?

 

We got SOOOO little sleep in basics that I did not want to spend an hour every morning making the bed. Made it and left it as is for as long as possible.