Spice SAS Evening - 19th August 2006

We had an enquiry from a company called Spice, A kind of dating agency but with a difference. You meet at strange events .With about 30,000 members we took it pretty seriously Colin got the list of names through and he said Bloody hell 12 girls and three blokes I replied In your dreams, cos Collins a bit single at the mo .We decided not to tell the lads as their a bit Shy, they think girls are just blokes with bumpy chests.

When they all arrived we could tell they were fired up for a serious bit of sas action in the woods Colin became Quartermaster as they signed for all their specialist equipment, Tents, sleeping bags, ponchos camo gear, burnes machine guns ,ect,ect then they all set about camoing each others faces in green and black.Fortunatly a few of the girls fell for the old ,Have to camo your bare bottom in case you need a pee on exercise routeen.

Tim's face was a picture as you can see when one of the girls asked him to camo her bottom,As you can see! .from his picture, Then we all tracked off to the base camp in the woods in three hagglunds Colin and the lads set about helping the recruits with their tents and then on to Fire starting skills and all sorts of survival secrets the SAS use.

Soon a massive fire was blazing and they all opened their 24 hour ration packs, Lancashire lamb hot pot was first on the menu followed by fruit dumplings and custard after dinner we prepared for midnight manoeuvre which the girls found a scream. and learnt all about IC,s RV,POINT and TAIL END CHARLIE, Not many survived the recovery of some specialist equipment from one of 100 tanks left around the place ,but hey that’s war.

Sas Collins debrief was pretty chilling and most realised afterwards Why the sas work in troops of 4.Then a few tails of his unbelievable escapades from around the world. In the morning Bacon beans and mugs of tea all round .Then Jungle patrol, ( Your all doomed ) a couple of hours later pistol alley and an hour ! in the armoury. I was only war photographer but had a great time too, a long with all the lads Richard the ninja Terrifying Tim and wonderful Wayne.

Girls if the chocolate bar in the rations pack went missing blame Tim he must have 9000 calories a day just to survive while watching tv you can imagine his needs on a sleeping with the sas manoeuvre. Many thanks Spice, any time bring iit on.