Army Logic III
(Only in the Army!!)
sent in by
Baz Ford

Who was at Catterick in January 1969 doing a RISTACOM Course ?

You might remember a very important rugby match to be played at Mons lines. Trouble is it snowed all day and you couldn't see the pitch. No worries, the army had the answer. At about 4.30 in the arvo (already dark) we all had to front up to the pitch with shovels, there must have been at least a hundred of us. We would clear the snow off the pitch. Sounds hard ? The army had a plan. We all were lined up down one side of the pitch and on the command, started shovelling snow ahead of us. The plan was to shovel it all to the other side, leaving the pitch clear. In about five minutes, after clearing about 1 yard we were all sweating with a pile of snow about 6 feet high in front of us, only another 49 yards to go ! Oh, forgot to mention, it was still snowing behind us.It was finally abandoned after a general fit of laughing (by the sqaddies, not the Ruperts !) I think the wallie that dreamed that scheme up went on to organise a war or something.