Thursdays Wars can be a pain in the arse but also be a laugh at times, unless the FOST movers and wreckers are seen to be hanging about like stale air!
I didn’t mind DOST so bad, only 3 or 4 weeks, grinding, fires, wars, things being ripped up, thrown at you and how can we forget about the whole ship turning on each other! Mind you I did use to like the RF attacks, they were fun! Been on both sides, RF and a culprit of throwing those rotten eggs at any one with a hint of gold on their shoulders :twisted:
But BOST/OST, never again thank god (only did 5 in total)! Only ever been sent on an extra week once and that’s because the frigging officers mucked up and guess who had to pay, us god damn JRs!
I always use to think people were joking about throwing themselves down the ladders, faking illnesses and going wibble just so they did not have to go through our lovely Flag Officer Sea Training weeks! Should of known better, within the week before OST 5 people managed to get a nice SOS for, guess how long, 7 weeks :roll:
There was this one CPOMA that was a darling, he would warn me about certain little things that were going to happen! All I had to do was slip him a wet (no idea’s people, just a plain tea!). I soon learnt that I would need to volunteer as casualty on certain ‘wars’, which was good as I could get my head down, which I hadn’t done for 48hrs. Call it a cop out but bugger it, like I care! Other things I hated, stupid O’Clock timings for cable parties! The SnS and officers curled up in their warm pits while we were soaked head to toe in sea water, trying to blind guide ourselves in the dark with the cable, capstans, bottle screws and mousing wire that always dug into you at the time you wish it wouldn’t!
I use to be the one caught in the odd places when the wreckers would throw a nice gas canister my way, the fire hoses let lose and guess who would have to clean the 2ft of water up! Its what OMs are for apparently, hang on I realized what that broom is on my branch badge now :roll:
Mind you the action scran wasn’t so bad at times :wink:
But the thing that sent shivers down my spin, the nightmares that haunted me, the taunting………………………it was down to those Green fowlys!
So, lads and ladettes.......lets open up our little stories of OSTs gone bad, Thursday Wars that seemed like they would never end! I must be the youngest on here, seeing as this was between 1999 - 2004, come on and show me up
I didn’t mind DOST so bad, only 3 or 4 weeks, grinding, fires, wars, things being ripped up, thrown at you and how can we forget about the whole ship turning on each other! Mind you I did use to like the RF attacks, they were fun! Been on both sides, RF and a culprit of throwing those rotten eggs at any one with a hint of gold on their shoulders :twisted:
But BOST/OST, never again thank god (only did 5 in total)! Only ever been sent on an extra week once and that’s because the frigging officers mucked up and guess who had to pay, us god damn JRs!
I always use to think people were joking about throwing themselves down the ladders, faking illnesses and going wibble just so they did not have to go through our lovely Flag Officer Sea Training weeks! Should of known better, within the week before OST 5 people managed to get a nice SOS for, guess how long, 7 weeks :roll:
There was this one CPOMA that was a darling, he would warn me about certain little things that were going to happen! All I had to do was slip him a wet (no idea’s people, just a plain tea!). I soon learnt that I would need to volunteer as casualty on certain ‘wars’, which was good as I could get my head down, which I hadn’t done for 48hrs. Call it a cop out but bugger it, like I care! Other things I hated, stupid O’Clock timings for cable parties! The SnS and officers curled up in their warm pits while we were soaked head to toe in sea water, trying to blind guide ourselves in the dark with the cable, capstans, bottle screws and mousing wire that always dug into you at the time you wish it wouldn’t!
I use to be the one caught in the odd places when the wreckers would throw a nice gas canister my way, the fire hoses let lose and guess who would have to clean the 2ft of water up! Its what OMs are for apparently, hang on I realized what that broom is on my branch badge now :roll:
Mind you the action scran wasn’t so bad at times :wink:
But the thing that sent shivers down my spin, the nightmares that haunted me, the taunting………………………it was down to those Green fowlys!
So, lads and ladettes.......lets open up our little stories of OSTs gone bad, Thursday Wars that seemed like they would never end! I must be the youngest on here, seeing as this was between 1999 - 2004, come on and show me up
