danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
No, by Essex. i.e Robert Devereux.So you got shot at in Essex?
Obviously not the original. An actor. It's a .military re-enactment. He was played by the old Poldark on TV.
. Military Reenactment
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Obviously not the original. An actor. It's a .military re-enactment. He was played by the old Poldark on TV.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I was in Ludlow once, and there was a re-enactment lot in the castle - they were the Sealed Knot lotI did quite like see people in civil war outfits - on their mobiles and smoking cigarettes
i enjoyed the Viking festival in York - with loads of Vikings queing up at the car park payment machine.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its just LARP'ng without the possibility of elf maidens and drugs, which I hear goes on in proper LARP'ing
Casaubon
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I used to work for a disaster relief NGO. The agency wasn’t operational ‘in the field’, we provided specialised personnel and training to operational agencies and individuals.
One of our courses was ‘Security and Communications’, which was a basic intro to managing radio communications and security in volatile or unstable environments. The highlight of the course was a simulation exercise in which teams of participants were sent into the countryside in Landrovers to perform various tasks such as assessing a water supply or erecting an aerial.
During the simulation they’d encounter all sorts of situations – well-mannered military checkpoints, drunken roadblocks, friendly and hostile locals, bandits, militias, corrupt officials etc.
It was usually tremendous fun. We had blank-firing pistols, de-activated AKs, theatrical explosives and all sorts of kit scrounged from the army. One time we managed to borrow a platoon of the Durham Light Infantry.
Dressing up and chasing people through the undergrowth was like regressing to childhood, playing Cowboys and Indians, and who doesn’t want to kick in a door while firing a pistol. Manning a hostile roadblock, being a complete cunt from behind the mirror shades and AK, was also interesting, and a lot of fun.
I felt that I was getting all the fun bits of re-enacting or LARPing, with none of the dodgy or tiresome aspects, and it was all under the cover of ‘a good cause’.
Over the years I performed many roles, my favourites were the crazed Liberian rebel, the Serbian ethnic cleanser and the Afghan warlord (my portrayal of Dostum was Oscar-worthy).
One of our courses was ‘Security and Communications’, which was a basic intro to managing radio communications and security in volatile or unstable environments. The highlight of the course was a simulation exercise in which teams of participants were sent into the countryside in Landrovers to perform various tasks such as assessing a water supply or erecting an aerial.
During the simulation they’d encounter all sorts of situations – well-mannered military checkpoints, drunken roadblocks, friendly and hostile locals, bandits, militias, corrupt officials etc.
It was usually tremendous fun. We had blank-firing pistols, de-activated AKs, theatrical explosives and all sorts of kit scrounged from the army. One time we managed to borrow a platoon of the Durham Light Infantry.
Dressing up and chasing people through the undergrowth was like regressing to childhood, playing Cowboys and Indians, and who doesn’t want to kick in a door while firing a pistol. Manning a hostile roadblock, being a complete cunt from behind the mirror shades and AK, was also interesting, and a lot of fun.
I felt that I was getting all the fun bits of re-enacting or LARPing, with none of the dodgy or tiresome aspects, and it was all under the cover of ‘a good cause’.
Over the years I performed many roles, my favourites were the crazed Liberian rebel, the Serbian ethnic cleanser and the Afghan warlord (my portrayal of Dostum was Oscar-worthy).
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Casaubon.
once took part in a training exercise for possibly 14int or similarly sneaky beaky outfit which went horribly wrong due to Military intelligence living
up to its oxymoron and staging said to exercise "covertly" in the wilds of Kent.
Kent Police less than happy even more up happy when several SAS. types objected to being arrested and the rest of us legged it.
running around kent with all the police after you was way more exciting than I'd signed up for especially as our task was to put would be spies in the back of a van to be taken away to be tortured
once took part in a training exercise for possibly 14int or similarly sneaky beaky outfit which went horribly wrong due to Military intelligence living
up to its oxymoron and staging said to exercise "covertly" in the wilds of Kent.
Kent Police less than happy even more up happy when several SAS. types objected to being arrested and the rest of us legged it.
running around kent with all the police after you was way more exciting than I'd signed up for especially as our task was to put would be spies in the back of a van to be taken away to be tortured
