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A Happy New Year To All Members Of Our Forum. I Hope All Your Wishes And Dreams Come True For 2026.

Thankyou To Everyone For Your Comments And Views, Making These Monthly Topics In 2025 Popular.

My Medical Team Have Told Me This Next Year Will Be One Of Huge Change As My Vascular Parkinsonism Dementia Is Progressing. I am Going To Try And Prove Them Wrong. I Have Aways Walked My Own Path, So We Shall See.

All The Very Best To You All.

Keep your pecker up, naroon1.   

My pleasure, I.

I just wanted to say… Happy New Year! I hope 2026 treats you well. It’s really inspiring to read how you keep going despite everything.

A Very Happy New Year To You larizoi.

To Keep Going Is All I Know, Been Living With This Now For Several Years, Vascular Dementia Sufferers Have It Harder Than Alzheimer's As We Are Aware Of Every Back Step We Take, I Have Taken A Few Back Steps More Than I Expected Last Year. I Am Lucky Though, I Have Lived A Life Some Can Only Dream About After A Lifetime Of Soldiering, Seen The World, Made Bonds That Will Last, Seen The Very Worst Of Mans Cruelty To Other Men Up Close, And Loved People Deeply And Been Lucky To Have That Love Returned. Those That Have Gone Before Me Are Waiting, For The Next Adventure. Thanks For Your Kind Words.  

Bloody infantry...keep putting your left then your right. Eat and sleep when you get a chance. Dry sock and boots. Heaven. Keep on keeping on, I.

Dry socks?

They told me wet socks was proper uniform wear if they were dry, I was out of uniform.

Oh, well Emersion Foot is 10% disability in each foot.

Thanks A Lot S.

In 3 Combat Tours Of Africa, I Never Managed To Keep My Socks Dry Past The First Few Minutes, The Humidity Was A Beast  

You Understand The Life Well S.  

You Got It gypsy2299. Although The British Legion Are Only Interested In Compo For Time Served In The Regulars. Even Though 2 Of My Tours In Africa Was Funded By The British, Protecting Copper Mining, I Was Not There For Queen And Country.  

I., before the Navy Doc stint, I was airborne qualified in an armored recon platoon. That was the 1973 war. Yes...dry socks and clothing and a warm balaclava and kaffiyah with goggles meant not freezing one's (eye)balls off during the winter in a jeep in the desert at 3 a.m.    

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 87

I., before the Navy Doc stint, I was airborne qualified in an armored recon platoon. That was the 1973 war. Yes...dry socks and clothing and a warm balaclava and kaffiyah with goggles meant not freezing one's (eye)balls off during the winter in a jeep in the desert at 3 a.m.    

73 a great year.

Visited the Walls of Constantinople in Sept and was waiting for a ride to the big Airport near Spring Lake NC that had the same first name as the top leader of the world's largest Christian denomination for a flight south of the Walls in Oct. 

Was somewhat looking forward to that flight as they said I was going to visit Mount Sinai 

They did say I would have to watch the first step out of the plane as it would be one of 600 to 1200 feet as they would not have permission to fly any lower and did not have a place to stop, also I would be carrying all my luggage with me including my boss's smart phone that was 50 lbs.  but still  

Boss's smart phone was 22 lbs. called a PRC 77 but had a privacy device that was a separate 30 lbs. add on.

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 87

I., before the Navy Doc stint, I was airborne qualified in an armored recon platoon. That was the 1973 war. Yes...dry socks and clothing and a warm balaclava and kaffiyah with goggles meant not freezing one's (eye)balls off during the winter in a jeep in the desert at 3 a.m.    

An Army Cadet at 12 years old, A Junior Leader In The Regular Army at 17, Airborne Training too, Artic Warfare and Skiing In Finland. Took The Winter Selection For The Regiment, Injured, Nothing Major just a few Broken Bones. Left The Regulars After getting Almost As High Rank As An Enlisted man I Could (CSM), Became A PMC, Nothing Like Those Baby Rapists From Wagner, We Were Pro,s 100%. Combat Tours In Africa And The Old Yugoslavia.

The Military Is Not For Everyone, But It Seems To Have Made Us The People We Are Today

S, and gypsy2299 I Salute You Guys, Strength And Honour Always, And My Respect For Your Service.    

And vice versa, I.

You know, despite "The Gladiator", there's a curious lack of evidence the soldiers of the legions ever said "Robur et honorem" to each other.

Agreed S.

We were saying it long before the 2000s Amongst Other Things. We Would Say other things like "Lux Et Robur" As More of a sign of Respect and Motivation to Get Into The Right Mindset Before A Patrol, to encourage Unity, this phrase indeed is connected To My Own Part Of The World, A High School and A Football Team (Soccer To Others), although i have never heard it used by Football Fans of the said Club, even though My Own Daughter Played For The Woman's Team, but they adopted it as their coat of arms. All Those Who Have Stood On A Line And Told The Bad Guys, You Shall Not Pass, Have My Utmost Respect, You And gypsy Both. We Fought For The Man To The Left And Right Of Us, They Did Exactly The Same, Warriors Get And Understand Other Warriors, As We Share A Life Lived In Uniform No Matter The Country.

Happy New Year, naroon1! I really admire your courage and determination ,your strength is inspiring. Keep going, you’ve got this.