Take a quiet moment to think .

[Seven]

Some more pictures from Belgium... The sheer size is overwhelming, we spent hours in Tyne Cot cemetery and only saw half of it.

Sorry for the blur... Not taken with my camera (my battery was dead).

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[lukeB]

I wish i could retire from working in IT.

I always felt guilty that during 3 years in the TA I didnt go on tour. 

 

[pierce09]

I don't usually admit to still serving whilst playing airsoft. Some former and current service folk think it automatically makes them better at airsoft or that because they used a real rifle they are qualified to talk anything airsoft related. 

Some however, are absolute legends and enhance every event I've been to. from an ex SFSG buddy who comes along to events for a good laugh to watching a US Ranger teach a couple of doe-eyed kids how his unit in particular were taught to transition from rifle to pistol without billy big timing it, always makes me appreciate the positive links that can be utilised between military service and this hobby.

 

[pierce09]

So I've never been to a skirmish or weekend event in the UK over Remembrance Day. Is there a minute's silence observed or anything like that?

I did a 60 hour milsim event over Memorial weekend a few years back and the yanks don't do anything for that day like we do for Nov 11th. I did however sit down in the evening with quite a few other serving and former servicemen and spin dits whilst smashing back a few tots of whatever was passed in front of me. That was extremely meaningful on a personal level. 

 

[Druid799]

I wish i could retire from working in IT.

I always felt guilty that during 3 years in the TA I didnt go on tour. 

Why mate ? Did you get asked to go on tour but said “oh I’m really sorry but no i can’t go my dogs having hiss balls off next mth so I couldn’t possibly go to war then !” Wouldn’t have thought you did ! ?

all that matters is you signed a piece of paper that said if you were needed you would risk your life for your country , nothing more nothing less . So no you’ve nothing to feel guilty about .

So I've never been to a skirmish or weekend event in the UK over Remembrance Day. Is there a minute's silence observed or anything like that?

The two I’ve done they did hold a two minute silence at 11 but you could tell a good few there just didn’t get it . Definitely won’t be gaming this year I shall be at my local cenotaph , I don’t usually go to any events (I like to remember my sleeping mate my own way) but as this yr is the big 100 I feel I’ve a duty to go . 

 

[pierce09]

Definitely won’t be gaming this year I shall be at my local cenotaph , I don’t usually go to any events (I like to remember my sleeping mate my own way) but as this yr is the big 100 I feel I’ve a duty to go . 

I'll be at my local cenotaph as well with 7 other members of my family still serving or retired including my Grandfather and my father which I'm looking forward to. I don't think I could ever do anything other than a service on Remembrance Day. 

 

[lukeB]

Was part of 2 (national communications) signal brigade. 

Given that our role was to provide comms in the event of nuclear attacks or major uk incidents, its probably a good thing I wasnt deployed.

 

[clumpyedge]

So I've never been to a skirmish or weekend event in the UK over Remembrance Day. Is there a minute's silence observed or anything like that?

I did a 60 hour milsim event over Memorial weekend a few years back and the yanks don't do anything for that day like we do for Nov 11th. I did however sit down in the evening with quite a few other serving and former servicemen and spin dits whilst smashing back a few tots of whatever was passed in front of me. That was extremely meaningful on a personal level. 

We do an enforced 2 minutes. We ask people that dont want to respect it to go off to another area while the people that do want to observe it can do so in a dignified manner with no interruptions.

 

[Tackle]

We do an enforced 2 minutes. We ask people that dont want to respect it to go off to another area while the people that do want to observe it can do so in a dignified manner with no interruptions.

that would be kinda ironic, anybody who objects to respecting remembrance, yet here they are at an event that essentially reenacts warfare, I think I'd ask them to move to another site?

 

[Arwen]

So I've never been to a skirmish or weekend event in the UK over Remembrance Day. Is there a minute's silence observed or anything like that?

I did a 60 hour milsim event over Memorial weekend a few years back and the yanks don't do anything for that day like we do for Nov 11th. I did however sit down in the evening with quite a few other serving and former servicemen and spin dits whilst smashing back a few tots of whatever was passed in front of me. That was extremely meaningful on a personal level. 

At my local site we do have ceremony. We play on an old RAF base and there is a reasonably large number of serving and ex-forces members at the site every week, so they tend to lead it.

It can get pretty emotional. It is much more "from the heart" than any other remembrance ceremony I've been to before.  

 

[Tommikka]

Was part of 2 (national communications) signal brigade. 

Given that our role was to provide comms in the event of nuclear attacks or major uk incidents, its probably a good thing I wasnt deployed.

You and my dad

He wasn’t in signals.  Artillery - nuclear artillery