Mr KillKill
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All our WO’s were regular army and rotated regularly through our Reserve Coy, this is a story related to me by one of them.
When he was a Training Sergeant for the regs one of the jokes the training staff used to play on the new recruits was during instructions on how to shave, with emphasis on speed. First he had them line up around the sink that he had filled with hot soapy water, then he would take his razor, one of those types that you change the actual blade not the disposable ones, and he would drop it into the water while he lathered his face.
The water always had enough foam and bubbles on top so that you could never see the bottom of the sink and this was so he could hide a second razor without a blade. Once he was lathered up, he reached in, and I am assuming that he had a technique to work out which razor to pick up eg; drop the razor in the left hand side and pick up from the right. However he did it, he would pick up the bladeless razor and take about ten seconds to shave off the lather leaving a nice clean shave (he had shaved properly before this exercise) and not one shaving cut
The following morning, once the recruits had finished their morning ritual and stood waiting outside their rooms for the daily room inspection, the training staff would inspect the troops. The troop’s faces would all be covered in blood and as the training staff walked passed they would generously apply some aftershave, which they brought with them, to each soldiers face. To make matters worse they had emptied the original contents and replaced it with mentholated spirits.
He said the screams could be heard clear across the base
When he was a Training Sergeant for the regs one of the jokes the training staff used to play on the new recruits was during instructions on how to shave, with emphasis on speed. First he had them line up around the sink that he had filled with hot soapy water, then he would take his razor, one of those types that you change the actual blade not the disposable ones, and he would drop it into the water while he lathered his face.
The water always had enough foam and bubbles on top so that you could never see the bottom of the sink and this was so he could hide a second razor without a blade. Once he was lathered up, he reached in, and I am assuming that he had a technique to work out which razor to pick up eg; drop the razor in the left hand side and pick up from the right. However he did it, he would pick up the bladeless razor and take about ten seconds to shave off the lather leaving a nice clean shave (he had shaved properly before this exercise) and not one shaving cut
The following morning, once the recruits had finished their morning ritual and stood waiting outside their rooms for the daily room inspection, the training staff would inspect the troops. The troop’s faces would all be covered in blood and as the training staff walked passed they would generously apply some aftershave, which they brought with them, to each soldiers face. To make matters worse they had emptied the original contents and replaced it with mentholated spirits.
He said the screams could be heard clear across the base
