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There is no problem about the difference between the army and the RAF. We all know that the Brylcreem Boys were a lot randier. By the way have any of you seen the movie "The Brylcreem boys"? It's set in an internment camp in Ireland in WWII. It's a hoot. Another movie which takes you back to the War is "Land Girls", again not Oscar material but worth seeing when you lived through the time. Very nostalgic. Ralph

Hi Ralph and all, I was interested in your comment: " We all know that the Brylcreem Boys were a lot randier. " Well, I must admit, until you said that, I had always thought that the guys in the Navy had that distinction. For instance, everybody knew that sailors, had a girl in every port and then there was that saucy song, " All the nice girls like a sailor, all the nice girls love a tar, for there's something about a sailor, well you know what sailors are ......" Well, we Brylcream Boys never had anything like that to make the girls go weak at the knees. Even though we probably were randier, it had'nt yet registered with the fairer sex. I suppose we might have looked a bit more intersting to the girls after stirring films like, " Reach for the Sky ' and " The Dam Busters ', came out, but I personally, never experienced girls throwing themselves at me as I strode along in my RAF uniform. But then I was'nt in the same class as Douglas Bader or Guy Gibson and I remember once, a Fight Sergeant asked me, in a pained voice, how I made my uniform look like a crumpled sack when I was wearing it. I said, " I dunno " Anyhow, Ralph thanks for pointing that out. Cheers, Patrick. ps. Gerry, I find the thought of all those honrny young soldier wandering around Aldershot with an ice cream cone in their hot little hands looking for a bit of crumpet, hilarious. It sounds like something straight out of John Cleese movie.

I believe it would have been very cruel of those in authority not to have put |>something in our tea, to ensure that we did not suffer too much from unfulfilled |>lustful inclination. Hi Gang (guys in particular!) All this 'special' tea stuff, brings back memories of my dear old grandfather who fought in the trenches in WWI. On his 80th birthday, we had a big family get together. (Local press present taking photos etc.) On recalling what significant memories he had of his 80 years, he brought the house down when he included this comment, "After all these years I think the 'stuff' they put in my tea during WWI to curb my sexual desires, is finally starting to work!" Margaret - Perth, Western Australia

Well Patrick, all the illusions of a lifetime shattered. We "brown jobs' always believed that our lack of success was because you RAF types were getting it all and left none over for us. Now you tell me we were all in the same empty boat. Still I remember the comments by Brit forces in the war. "The only trouble with the Yanks is that they're overpaid, oversexed and over here." Maybe they spoiled the pitch for all of us!