From a soldier
Dear Lorraine
What an enjoyable site! I must support in particular the advice from one of your correspondants to "Join The Army".
Following a fall out with senior officers I spent three weeks as their special guest and was able to wear army gortex gear to my hearts content.Charges eventually withdrawn and I was released.
I was detained at the secret training location at ---- in a cold concrete unfurnished cell. When arrested I was wearing cold weather gear - a big green hoody and sweat pants with gortex over-trousers and a hooded gortex camo army jacket, army boots and thick gloves. The gortex jacket has a collar that covers your mouth and hood that comes down over your eyebrows. Under this I had a beeny hat and a neck warmer pulled up over my nose.
My hands were handcuffed behind my back for the entire time of my detention. My ankles were also cuffed together. My handcuffs and anklecuffs were locked together behind my back with a third pair of cuffs so I had to lie on the concrete floor on my stomach.Once every twelve hours I was released to go to the toilet and be fed some bread and apples and have a drink of water.
The hood of the Army gortex jacket is held from falling over your face by a velcro strip at the rear. If this released the front rim at the top of the hood falls down over your face to the bottom of your collar so you can see nothing and breathing inflates and deflates the hood.
So for three weeks I was kept hooded and treated to total silence by the guards.
I was stiff, it was cold, it was uncomfortable - a real toughness test.
I loved every minute of it!
Dear Soldier
I'm distressed to hear the Army is getting so soft. Time was when you would have been hung by the wrists for a month or two in
Or at any rate, the longer.
Many thanks for your lovely letter!
LE
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