Former Royal Marines meeting.

trooper · Post by **trooper** » Mon 04 May 2015 10:00 am

A final reminder to those former Royal Marines and attached ranks that the May informal reunion is to be held at the O'Live Bar Alsancak at 1400 weds 6th May.

Rig casual, humorous dits mandatory.

No Walts please.

kaiserphil · Post by **kaiserphil** » Mon 04 May 2015 11:33 am

By Walts, do you mean "Walter Mittys"?

If so, do people really turn up to a meeting of ex-Royals and pretend to be ex-Royals themselves?

Kanonier · Post by **Kanonier** » Mon 04 May 2015 1:27 pm

People turn up at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day pretending to be ex members of the SAS! Other Regts/Corps are available.

kaiserphil · Post by **kaiserphil** » Mon 04 May 2015 1:58 pm

Sad little people.

trooper · Post by **trooper** » Mon 04 May 2015 7:13 pm

Kaiserphil; I am afraid that we have had people turn up pretending to be former members of the Corps.
Sad but true.We had a rather bad experience with a chap who claimed all sorts of things and even turned up on Remebrance Sunday a few years ago with various medals that were not earned......not to mention a Vietnam medal ! So there are some odd people out there. They of course get found out fairly quickly but we would rather they didn't bother to try.

The Corps is a fairly small 'family'so it is a daft thing to do but it doesn't stop the really dopey people.