Comments:
Reading Bill's account of his "meat head" experience brought to mind my first real encounter with our beloved red caps.In fact it was on my second summer of military training when our little group was sent to Shilo for second phase artillery training, part of which was to learn how to operate military vehicles. For some reason our course officer allowed us all to get jeeps for the weekend and we had free reign in driving them thru the sand dunes. As you can imagine this was not too shabby for a bunch of 19-20 year olds until we ran out of gas and the transport pumps were closed. Not willing to give up we pooled our cash and lined up at Canex to get gas. Who should come by but a MP patrol who wanted to know what we were doing and why. To my embarrassment when they found out my parents were still in Shilo, my father was called to the station to account for us (which he did rather reluctantly) but managed to get us out. Of course we did not know that the MPs also sent a report to the CO who was far less lenient then my father. It was our first exposure to extra shifts as a duty officer to pay for our crimes but like Bill said the MPs were "just doing their jobs" But they seemed to enjoy that one a bit too obviously. Cheers
Reading Bill's account of his "meat head" experience brought to mind my first real encounter with our beloved red caps.In fact it was on my second summer of military training when our little group was sent to Shilo for second phase artillery training, part of which was to learn how to operate military vehicles. For some reason our course officer allowed us all to get jeeps for the weekend and we had free reign in driving them thru the sand dunes. As you can imagine this was not too shabby for a bunch of 19-20 year olds until we ran out of gas and the transport pumps were closed. Not willing to give up we pooled our cash and lined up at Canex to get gas. Who should come by but a MP patrol who wanted to know what we were doing and why. To my embarrassment when they found out my parents were still in Shilo, my father was called to the station to account for us (which he did rather reluctantly) but managed to get us out. Of course we did not know that the MPs also sent a report to the CO who was far less lenient then my father. It was our first exposure to extra shifts as a duty officer to pay for our crimes but like Bill said the MPs were "just doing their jobs" But they seemed to enjoy that one a bit too obviously. Cheers
Added: March 28, 2015
Name: Turk
From: Victoria
E-mail: mturk204@shaw.ca
Enjoy the long weekend everyone.
Cheers
Turk