Pongos get a taste of life on board a warship

[Naval_Gazer]

I loved this. Welcome to normal messdeck life on board a warship:

SOLDEIRS CRAMMED ABOARD NAVY SHIP ‘IT’S LIKE A CAN OF SARDINES’

...One 20-year-old private told us: “There’s 30 men in my room. It’s a tiny space about the size of a caravan. “It’s like living on a submarine. There are three bunk beds on top of each other, there are no windows and it gets sweaty."

..."The boat is really cramped. There’s 700 Army staying on the ship and 400 crew. These are conditions soldiers and marines live in when they are at war or on an operation – not covering big event security.”

One squaddie said hundreds of soldiers were squashed into around 20 “emergency” rooms.

Another soldier from Yorkshire said he was in one of the bigger rooms housing 30 men but he added: “It is like a can of sardines. You’re below deck in a steel box where there’s no daylight.”

Last night Major Paul Horton, second-in-command of the Venue Security Force, said: “My men and women have been well looked after by their Royal Navy hosts. All my soldiers accommodated in HMS Ocean have the same facilities as the sailors, soldiers and Royal Marines who are used to deploying for up to seven months at a time. It has taken us all a bit of time getting used to living in a ship but, as a short-term solution, the accommodation, food and recreation facilities are certainly up to scratch.”

What a load of pansies.

[Sharkey]

"Its like living on a Submarine" how very dare he!

[wal]

Fucking woosey pongos.

I doubt that they have found the bathroom yet.

[SJRM_RN]

They should get to the sick bay for 300cc of Man-Up and get on with it. You notice there are no complaints about dhoby facilities

[pie.thatcher]

Just as well its not heaving about in a force 8 or more. Then they would have something to wing about.

[Topstop]

Sound like he`d be more at home with a hole in the ground, the natural home of a pongo.

[witsend]

[WreckerL]

How would a pongo know what it's like living on a submarine?

I think he's a gayer.

[Blackrat]

Hang on a minute. Let's put this into perspective. Us army chaps are used to space and don't like being crammed in like sardines you know. It takes a special type of person to be able to spend months in those conditions day in, day out. Full respect to the Navy for being able to go to war in those conditions and boo to this chap for making himself sound like a poof.

I hope he gets stick when he gets back to his FOB off the chaps. That's if he can hear them, what with all the incoming and all that.

[Flagdeck]

I thought Perce would be used to confined spaces and limited personal hygeine facilities...........after all, don't they live in trenches or summink......I used to be mesmerised by tales of yore by Harry Patch.