Brian Semple

@monasiddiqui7 Good morning - more wise words on TFTD. Thank you. A theme that @BBCr4today could easily take up. Perhaps @BBCR4Sunday will.

@monasiddiqui7 @BBCRadio4 And a most well thought out #tftd it was. Thank you. I have recommended my church friends to listen. You always find most appropriate and encouraging Koranic quotes. I just wish the Today presenters would acknowledge your wisdom.

First time doing #tftd ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ from the studio 😊

@Kirky_Kirkwood It will be 60 years this year and only underofficers carried swords (I was a JUO) it still seems like yesterday that I was in Marne Coy with CSM Delgarno SG, Sgt Mel Thompson IG (later RSM), SSgt Beale RA and Sgt Holbrook York & Lancs. Best memory - Coy photo with HM The Queen

Standby……..

@UKDefJournal I was the @Proud_Sappers troop commander on BATUS 2 in 1972 with QOH and Green Howards (Richard Dannatt was a platoon commander). In 1981 as OC 29 Fd Sqn I visited one of my troops on BATUS 6. For BAOR units it was often the best time for Cold War soldiers

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@giles_fraser Utilitarianism? You are the former philosophy don - please explain

So Parliament seeking to pass a Bill that thinks it’s ok for the state to support people who want to take their own life because they are poor. Seriously wtf!

Happy New Year @monasiddiqui7 How good to hear you again on TFTD. Thank you @BBCr4today

@monasiddiqui7 Thank you and a happy holiday to you and your family

Wishing all who celebrate a very happy Christmas! 🎄

@paulbiddle401 @Posted_to_BAOR But seriously as old @Posted_to_BAOR the Truckies were essential for the @Proud_Sappers to train and operate bridging trains or for minelaying or the drivers could have been WRAC

@paulbiddle401 @Posted_to_BAOR With the year of registration of that number shouldn’t the Corps badge be of the old Jam Stealers (Run Away Someone’s Coming)?

Who’s gonna start with the 4 Tonner safety quotes………..

@RMASTrust Hoping that includes @SgtMajFrench Definitely worth preserving as a heritage project

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@WalkerMarcus @churchofengland @CanterburyDio @ChurchTimes Whatever happened to the BCP liturgy for today of safe deliverance from Guy Fawkes and his Popish plot of 1605?

@Posted_to_BAOR I began at 15/0 (shillings) then 19/0 after one year!

I could drink the Sqn bar dry, get a taxi down to das Altstadt, neck 15 Jägerbombs, have a Gyros, visit the Eros Centre, steal a bike, get arrested, fight the Polizie, get chucked in the Guardroom, get fined by the OC and still have change from 5DM for a NAAFI growler…….

@SgtMajFrench Marylebone, known as the Gentleman’s Station. How appropriate for you to be there!

@Posted_to_BAOR One thing’s for sure the Volksarmee conscripts didn’t enjoy BFPO 45 as much the boys who spent Saturday night in the guardrooms of the Wavell, Spandow Montgomery and the other British barracks!

The ‘Sunday morning, released from the Guardroom’ look………

@CliveWardauthor Do you acknowledge the 80 or so service personnel killed or seriously injured each year - mostly through RTAs on the weekend dash to and from the channel ferries but also on training? Check to see if the @PoppyLegion recognises them during the Annual Festival of Remembrance

Out of all my postings, Germany was the best. Our regiment was one of many regiments sent out there to drink cheap beer as part of the British Army of the Rhine. Our other role when we were sober was spent on standby, ready to move at a moment’s notice, it was called ‘Active Edge.’ We’d be crashed out to our top secret, harbour areas, only to find the bratty wagon was already there. Our job was to defend West Germany and NATO in the event of a Soviet invasion. But everyone knew if they did invade, we’d be about effective as an officer with a compass. We lived out there for nearly five years, 1979-84 for most of it in an alcoholic stupor that’s why my memory of being there is therefore somewhat hazy. They say, ‘If you have memories of Germany then you weren't doing it properly.’ Most of the barracks have gone now, supermarkets and housing estates built in their place. Even Soltau training area is no more. A bit sad really, all those memories and great times. That’s why I write stuff like this so we can look back and our kin can read about what we got up to in a 100 years’ time. ‘Here, read this son, find out what your Great, Great, Grandad got up to back in the land of the old and bold.’ I bet it will confuse the s**t out of them. ‘So basically, Grandad played his part in holding back the Russian Hordes.' ‘That’s right son.’ ‘Whilst getting p***ed, fat, laid, doing the occasional Active Edge, whoring, Exercise, hurry up and waiting, getting p***ed, whoring, Op Banner, exercise, eating his own body weight in Brattys, Currywurst, Schnitzel, Pommes, getting p***ed, exercise, whoring and by the way what’s a peroxide hairy blonde, Dad?’ ENDEX 3 a must read for all Military…clivewardauthor.com Available on Amazon and paperback price amazon.co.uk/Endex-3-Clive-…

@SgtMajFrench @Corpsarmymusic What a great job - with special emphasis on the mounted band of the Household Cavalry?

@Posted_to_BAOR Used to be a US PX in Bitburg town serving nearby USAF base.

It’s Friday night Troops. Who’s up for a trip down der Altstadt………..

@The_RE_LE Great trip- in the chapel did you see the memorial to an officer killed by his servant with the epitaph - well done thou good and trusty servant!

@Posted_to_BAOR A tank or a SP gun?

A cracking picture of a tank on the back of a TCV (Tank Carrying Vehicle).

@The_RE_LE @ArmyCadetsUK @DurhamAcf @RMASandhurst Will let’s hope, what in my day was PB7 keep you in jobs you clearly enjoy and excel but that also the next pip is on its way.