Going to try to come up with a decent motto Air Airforce

Originally Posted by Aircop

Going to try to come up with a decent motto Air Airforce

We Army pukes had a motto for the AF "Air Farce, a great waste of life".
JUST KIDDING, don't anyone put out a contract on me!

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The Royal Navy always referred to the RAF as "Crab Air"

I have no idea why.

The RAF have been named "crabs" due to the fact that they have no limit to the number of sideways paces they can do as a drill movement. While army and navy have a fixed limit of sideways paces the RAF can actually march the entire width of a parade ground sideways.

Another more plausible explanation as to why the RN refer to the RAF as 'crabs' goes back to the days of rum, sodomy and the lash (about last week in fact). One of the more unsavoury aspects of the average matelot was his unfortunate habit of contracting pubic lice or "crabs" during his shore leave. The treatment for this condition was to get a chum or shipmate to apply a liberal application of a greasy blue/grey ointment (known affectionately as "crab fat") to the affected area. The proper name for the ointment was Blue Unction.

With the RN's usual powers of wit and sophistication the RAF were thereafter referred to as 'crab fats' (or crabs for short) as their blue/grey uniform was exactly the same colour as the stuff that the filthy little ratings rubbed on their swollen and lice-ravaged goolies.

Originally Posted by 42RM

The RAF have been named "crabs" due to the fact that they have no limit to the number of sideways paces they can do as a drill movement. While army and navy have a fixed limit of sideways paces the RAF can actually march the entire width of a parade ground sideways.

That's a new'un on me. Mind you, I never did many parades

Originally Posted by 42RM

Another more plausible explanation as to why the RN refer to the RAF as 'crabs' goes back to the days of rum, sodomy and the lash (about last week in fact).

I wonder how many matelots looked for the golden rivet?

I always knew the RN was strange, when I saw life belts on a land based air station. Don't matelots know the difference between the sea and grass?

Much of what the Navy do is a mystery!

Originally Posted by 42RM

Another more plausible explanation as to why the RN refer to the RAF as 'crabs' goes back to the days of rum, sodomy and the lash (about last week in fact).

Ahhhh, yes,.... how we miss "the good old days".

Oh and welcome aboard Aircop.