Your mam should've swallowed you ...........
After all the hype and comments I have seen on the new army recruitment campaign I can see the MOD think that some of our soldiers are a touch sensitive and need to make sure everyone is welcomed. After completing 22 years in the infantry and a number of tours I have been given and dished out a fair amount of banter, windups, and charter building jokes, what stands out most is the Army sayings we had in the Green Howards/ Yorkshire regiment and the rest of the infantry. The time you were most vulnerable was when you first joined other units would give the newly trained soldiers names such as TROG, NIG (New in green) Crow, among others but in my regiment you were know simple as red arse, I once heard the saying went back to the time when the uniform of the first choice (the army not the travel agent) was red jackets and white trousers known as the thin red line and the saying came from all the marching the red dye would run onto the white trousers hence the name of my batta...