Re: What's the difference?
Posted by
18Bravo on
Mar 12, 2016; 3:42pm
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Most of my experience from Brits is through the military. While in Berlin, if I wanted to see a good fight I could always go downtown to the Irish Pub, which was in the British Sector. There would almost inevitably be a scuffle every night, usually between dudes from units with words like "Hussars" and "Dragoons" I think.
I knew a few Brits in Afghanistan as well. I think we drank more with them than the Germans. So I could sum my experience as they are dudes who love a good fight and like to tie one on.
Side note: One night in Berlin driving a girlfriend home (different bike - I had traded up to a VF1100C) a dude cut me off and then made a right hand turn. I followed him, got in front of him, and then slowed down until he had to stop. As I approached he car, he made the mistake of trying to get out of his car. I starting beating him with the car door, and just as I got my hands around hid throat the British Military Police Rolled up. "Everything okay, mate?" asked one of them. I said "Yeah, we're cool." He said something like, "Well, righty-oh then," and drove off. Apparently fighting in the British Army is to be expected to a degree.
The really strange thing is that the dude was an American officer. The next day I heard he was looking for me. (Between my girlfriend shouting "Rob, stop!" and the somewhat unmistakable look of my bike he had little problem there. I saw him approaching our barracks so I went out to head him off. He actually apologized to me for cutting me off, and then thanked me for not turning him in for being drunk.
Those MP's probably saved both of our careers by driving off when they did.
I put the "G" in Jihad.