are these the real thing or Reenactors? - Page 2

Za Rodinu · 27-07-2009, 02:27 PM

All right, Streltsy and Khazaks

James S · 27-07-2009, 02:57 PM

If these gents are reenactors I do have to agree with Soren - it is not something which should really be done - this country is at war and is losing men and women on an almost daily basis - this is totally inappropriate .

soren1941 · 27-07-2009, 05:00 PM

Thanks James S

I think reenactors are ok, the ones I talked to at W & P (WW2) were very nice and posed for pictures, these ones made my blood boil, I just couldn't be sure in my head I was thinking this can not be for real?

Drew5233 · 27-07-2009, 05:03 PM

Defo not real and I only looked at the first picture

Jaeger · 27-07-2009, 05:05 PM

We do have reenactors up in here aswell, but it is considered bad form to reeanct anything later than WW2.

Drew5233 · 27-07-2009, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soren1941

I just reallly can not get my head around dressing up as present day soldiers, especially as we have lost over 20 this month, why don't they sign up for the real thing?

Probably because they couldn't pass the fitness test and the Army ration budget wouldn't accomodate em.

Donnie · 27-07-2009, 05:17 PM

Come on Andy, didnt you think he might be an MT driver?

Donnie

Drew5233 · 27-07-2009, 05:21 PM

I was thinking I know some TA members bigger than him

Donnie · 27-07-2009, 05:26 PM

But i bet you wouldnt catch them wearing dessies

....they would sweat off 8 stone in the first week

...

Donnie

Drew5233 · 27-07-2009, 05:28 PM

They always make for good bullet magnets though and there is the human shield factor too

27-07-2009, 02:27 PM	#11 (permalink)
Za Rodinu I'm getting soft! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Where the sun doth shine :) Posts: 3,709	All right, Streltsy and Khazaks __________________ Herodotus on the Persians: "It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine."

27-07-2009, 02:57 PM	#12 (permalink)
James S Very Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Omagh N.Ireland Posts: 2,145	If these gents are reenactors I do have to agree with Soren - it is not something which should really be done - this country is at war and is losing men and women on an almost daily basis - this is totally inappropriate . __________________ http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8gRx8tWJmI http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8poZshcDj8g http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUK7Dm-IPI http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c49tRp...eature=related http://www.open2.net/oulecture2005/the_lecture.html

27-07-2009, 05:00 PM	#13 (permalink)
soren1941 Living in Ypres Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ypres Posts: 1,303	Thanks James S I think reenactors are ok, the ones I talked to at W & P (WW2) were very nice and posed for pictures, these ones made my blood boil, I just couldn't be sure in my head I was thinking this can not be for real? __________________ Sample 'Michael Wittmann' Passchendaele Prints ~ WW1 & WW2 themed prints http://passchendaeleprints.com/ I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. Soren Kierkegaard

27-07-2009, 05:03 PM	#14 (permalink)
Drew5233 Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,417	Defo not real and I only looked at the first picture __________________ Combat Communicators of the British Army

27-07-2009, 05:17 PM	#17 (permalink)
Donnie A Modern Crusader Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 683	Come on Andy, didnt you think he might be an MT driver? Donnie __________________ *L/Cpl Paul Upton 25th February 2009 Gereshk District Afghanistan We Will Remember Him* *Always A Rifleman Swift & Bold*** My website www.freewebs.com/dswgreatwar

27-07-2009, 05:05 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jaeger Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Norway Posts: 162	We do have reenactors up in here aswell, but it is considered bad form to reeanct anything later than WW2.

27-07-2009, 05:21 PM	#18 (permalink)
Drew5233 Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,417	I was thinking I know some TA members bigger than him __________________ Combat Communicators of the British Army

27-07-2009, 05:26 PM	#19 (permalink)
Donnie A Modern Crusader Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 683	But i bet you wouldnt catch them wearing dessies ....they would sweat off 8 stone in the first week ... Donnie __________________ *L/Cpl Paul Upton 25th February 2009 Gereshk District Afghanistan We Will Remember Him* *Always A Rifleman Swift & Bold*** My website www.freewebs.com/dswgreatwar

27-07-2009, 05:28 PM	#20 (permalink)
Drew5233 Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,417	They always make for good bullet magnets though and there is the human shield factor too __________________ Combat Communicators of the British Army

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