I will tell you all a tale
I tell lots of tales when I am as full a s a frog but this one is a grand tale
They used to play this song when I was completing my clearance diving training at Hawsey island
We were on operation awkward week,the worst miserable week of my life.
But we had completed all that had to be completed and weRe now the epitome of fitness waiting to reek vengeance on the netherworld
Our class was now down to 40 % and this is were it mattered.
Music is a drug but not just a drug it is also a calendar that maps out your life by the decades and half decades.
It allows you to know that you lived and breathed earths fire by identifying your defining moments.
We slept well and then the thunder-crack banged out its life once more.
We had already danced the dance 4 times this evening.
OPRATION AWKWARD ! Bang crack went the thunder-flash lobbed into the barracks.
Me and my oppo helped each other into our dry suits at daft o'clock of a winters snowy morning and chased outside for what would be another marathon of jack stay fever.
A jack stay was a rope pulled across the bottom of the lake that we followed backwards and forwards buddied up.
We ran into position on the highest level of the dive boards fins in hand and hand on metal collars and descended down into the darkness and icy waters below.
Diver taxi cleared bag second time and vented up and then down we went across the jack stays forward backward forward backward in the monotonous darkness until our monoxide granules were at there limitations
Surface then sleep and repeat many times over the night and into the week.
Deods
demolition ordnance disposal school was very difficult but this was special,so very special.
Cortite and L1 L2 detonators were to be our new watch words.
Anyway that is why this song beats my chunky meat whenever I hear it
There will be songs that tug your meat too and you should play them on here for all to see
What song made you beat your meat and enabled you to define the year at a seconds notice
Adios amigos
Donna summer
Theme from the deep
Horsea, Jack, Horsea :)
Can you regale us of that time the African fella (I think he was Nigerian)being taught at the Defence Diving School, put his fucking divers' knife through the rib?
Tony Groom spin's a great dit.