That's not really my point Darksaber, nobody's questioning what you do, how good at it you might be, or whether or not your style of camping is better or worse than any other type. I just wondered why you think that anyone who chooses to stop at a convenient heated wooden wigwam, in a nice area, perhaps with their families, must be deluded into thinking that they are roughing-it SAS style?

For the record, I do many different types of camping and I enjoy them all, but I don't look down my nose at someone doing something different or make automatic assumptions about how they think.

I hope you're at least Para trained if you're putting pictures up like this or it would be a bit misleading trying to let people presume you're a Para once they see the maroon lid. If not, and judging by the RLC cap badge, as an attached rank the most arduous fitness you would have done is with an 11kg bergan at 15 minute mile pace which my 6 year old daughter could manage to do backwards in flipflops.

You must have had a good time machine to have left in 2005 and then transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 2007! Some of your lingo doesn't sound right for someone who's (allegedly) a Para and why the hell would someone who is Parachute Regiment be putting up photos of RLC and AGC cap badges (which by the way is on the first page of google images when you google 16 Air Assault Bde). Dates don't match up, lingo is all wrong, using google images....I smell a walt!

So for a weekend is it £88 with the surcharge. I've seen mid range hotels that offer a weekend at that price.

nice

They filmed The Force Awakens here

I think you made a spelling mistake as well, you missed the R and mistyped C instead of S in Ace :-)

It's a shed in a forest and the appeal is?

£17.50 (£22.00 Saturdays. £22.00 Sundays prior to a Bank Holiday Monday) per night per person extra (based on 3, 4 or 5 sharing the same unit)

Oh and your photo bucket link also lets all 1.5 million HUKD users see pictures of naked girls that you have on there amongst your racist photos :man:

http://s188.photobucket.com/user/darksaber35/library/GIRLS?sort=3&page=1

I don't usually break OPSEC, especially on a deals thread but just for context I'm a serving Sergeant and I've been in for 13 years. I was in Iraq n 2004 and nearly everyone had digital cameras, I don't even remember seeing a squaddie an old film type camera there. All of my army buddies who were serving pre 2000 and only had printed photos have scanned all of their old photos so they do have digital copies of them as I constantly have them popping up on my news feed on FB so if you had served all that time like you said then you'd be like all the other old soldiers who'd have scanned copies.

No ex or serving soldier in their right mind would post a photo of a different cap badge to their own to make a point about their service. ESPECIALLY Parachute Regiment, a Para would rather put photos up of Mr Blobby than a photo of RLC and AGC cap badges and pertain that it's their own. Literally would never get that from an ex Para.

No one who has served in Iraq would ever say "trying to keep the lid on Basra from boiling over" especially as the Parachute Regt were only there on the Initial invasion in 2003 and their purpose was to invade and get into Basra not "stop it from boiling over". If you'd been in 3rd Bn Parachute Regt after 2007 you'd have been serving in Afghanistan.......not Iraq.

Now the subtle points that I wasn't going to reveal but I'm going to have to now. The only people that would refer to P Coy as Pre parachute selection would be people who read Wikipedia for their info. If you'd served 16 years in the Cheshires, you'd have transferred over to the Mercians.

The Paras would never take you on after 16 years service whether or not you'd done P Coy. Transferees have to go through Para Depot to be taken on by Reg not just complete P Coy, that's for their Officers. No one I mean NO ONE who has served in 16 AA Bde would refer to it as "the 16th Air Assault Brigade" and don't try and hide behind a typo, you don't put a "th" on by accident. Also, 3rd Bn the Parachute Regt would refer to themselves as 3 Para. An ex Para wouldn't say "i used to be chauffeured around in Lynx and Chinook helicopters" it would be a C130, no Para would care or be proud that they had been in a helicopter.

The list of subtleties goes on and on and on, and any one of those would set alarm bells ringing, and with me it did. It seems like you either did a few years a long time ago, or you were TA so have a little bit of knowledge but not enough to stop a serving soldier from catching you out.

Also, you might not want to put your photobucket link on the pictures that you borrowed from Google.

http://s188.photobucket.com/user/darksaber35/media/_47062987_garrison_snow_soldiers_766_zpscwkztjcf.jpg.html

As not only does it show, and let anyone see, these photos that you posted. But also that you're into military figurines which is a typical profile of a military walter mitty, or walt.

But also photos of Swasticas and racist photos such as this

http://s188.photobucket.com/user/darksaber35/media/black_and_white_minstrel_show.jpg.html?sort=3&o=94 and this http://s188.photobucket.com/user/darksaber35/media/swazlarge.jpg.html?sort=3&o=55

Also shows that your OPSEC (operational security) is ****, which again wouldn't happen with most soldiers.

Do you need me to go on?

What a Guy! You should change your name to 'Ace' Darksaber so nobody is in any doubt how amazing you are.

Listen captain birds eye ,if you ever you noticed any of my posts i tend to make typing mistakes as some smart **** already commented and sometimes that includes numbers.
Funnily enough i don't have any digital photos pre 2005 like most people because i simply did not have a camera back then as they where pretty expensive or awful.IF you had ever done any service you would of known that troops get ferried between different barracks all the time to use training faculties that other basses lack.

Anyway Im sorry if i hurt your feelings about the arm chair general remark as it has obviously struck a cord with you so i will let you say what ever you want if it really makes you feel better. I know i was training at Whittington Barracks doing my phase 1 training outside lichfeild which served as a depot for the Prince of Wales' Division back 91 before i joined my home county regiment based at Chester and went on from there.

If you want to carry then we can always talk on ****.COM as i know plenty of the guys on there who acutely know what there talking about and put some service in.

Darksaber you seem to be avoiding the topic that you're talking bul&*$t about your service if you ever did serve at all. You're certainly not ex Parachute Regiment, as I said before none of your lingo adds up, as in it looks lie you got all of your information from Wikipedia. Your dates are wrong, and you're photos that you have used can easily be found on the first page of Googe images when you search 16 Air assault Bde.

I'm not going to go into detail about all of the subtle things I've picked up on as it will only help you to tailor your lies for the future and make your story more believable. If you want to try and prove you did what you say, then inbox me your Regimental number and I'll have the necessary checks carried out for your successful completion of Pre parachute selection, and your jumps course at No 1 PTS. I'll also inbox you mine if you'd like to check my history.

If you want to save yourself the embarrassment, stop spinning these lies and making condescending comments to people about glamping as you are making the rest of us, who actually are serving soldiers, look like a bunch of pr!