And for another glimpse of our BC, whom I mentioned above, in action, during orders parades aka summary trials, the practice in our battery was for the battery runner to perform the duties of the escort. Well, this one morning, there were a number of individuals waiting trial in the hall outside the battery commander's office. In turn each was formed up with the escort and went through the left right left right procedure. Finally, after a number of these, the Muzzle Brake looked up sternly at the escort, blasted him for appearing too many times on orders parade, stated he was going to make an example of him, and sentenced the hapless and innocent escort to 14 days detention.
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Old Sweat said:
Did he actually serve detention or did the BSM intervene?
SeaKingTacco said:
It got sorted out quietly, but the story went viral at hyper-velocity. It was entirely in character for the "bone", who once appeared on parade wearing a civilian fedora instead of his forage hat. I also recall once on brigade exercise, he issued deployment orders to the battery with the centre of arc 3200 mils in error. Those days we dug gun pits, so we dug these, filled them in rather quickly, and then dug fresh ones point down the correct centre of arc, but across the field against another tree line. This was in Petawawa and the ground was sandy, thank goodness.
