um one of the one of the squadrons had just returned from northern ireland and they had like a welcome back party in the camp camp bar there is a course called um assault engineers where infantry can come do engineering courses and there was an infantry unit called the fusiliers who were on camp doing that but they’d they’re troublemakers basically they’re banned from downtown because they’re always causing trouble so they were on camp and this evening that they had the big uh the family get together they were in the bar as well and me and my friend could see they’re being quite rude to some of the calling pads wives you know the lad’s wives you know uh so me and my friend you know decided to open up on a couple of them so we ended up you know putting down free guys my my my sergeant major came in is that right you boys go to bed you know it’s brushed under the carpet i was then rudely awoken by a military policeman two hours later said you’re under arrest and um so before i went over to five nine commando i there was possibility that i could be getting court-martialed for this fight so i went over anyway i did the first week of the beat up and then the course staff sergeant pulls me and he said you you’ve got to fly to germany they’re doing an id parade i was like okay so id parade is some kind of investigation investigation with the police yeah they want to line you up with other other other guys and are you are you like totally distraught at this point um i’m not totally distraught you do worry about your career how this can can affect your your career so i i flew over and me at the time i still hadn’t grown into my ears so i just stood out like you know a sore thumb and and they all knew me as the pti so straight away they just bee-lined yeah that’s the guy my friend who did it with me however his his brother was in the squadron as well so he never got picked out so i was like okay great um so i flew back to finish the beat up you know they said yeah you’re fit enough you’re ready so went on and did the did the commander course and um when we finished the command of course ten weeks later we go back to five nine commando and the oc is like that he said right guys you guys are going across the water and the squadron were in northern ireland so i thought perfect we’re off to northern ireland he said not you stop he said you’re going across the other water you’re going back to germany i said we need to get this get this cleared so i went back to germany and um basically they said look you can go court-martial and it probably would get thrown out but that’s gonna be another 12 months to 18 months you know i’ve just passed the command of course i wanted to go be with the commandos so i just pleaded guilty um i got charged and so i spent 56 days in the military correction training center which is colchester prison known as the glass house and but the the commanding officer actually because everyone knew it was me and the other guy you know they and they knew these guys were troublemakers they’re like yeah you just unfortunately got caught out so the commanding officer was an airborne guy airborne engineers this is the commanding officer at colchester no no this is this is the german yeah no this is in germany okay you know so i have to leave that unit first and so the rsm matches me and the rsm was one of a football player with me and uh and he’s like outright you know sapper stott um i was gonna give you 60 days but because you’ve done the all-arms commander course i’ve taken four days off any questions i said yes if i’d gone airborne would have got more days off and he sort of giggled and he said like you know it’s time for you to go so so yeah i spent 56 days in her majesty’s corrective training center yeah i was looking i didn’t know what colchester was but it’s basically it’s the same term echo charles when you hear somebody say leavenworth what do you think of prison yeah military prison that’s kind of the way culture is i think it’s the last military prison really in england there’s so there’s not it’s everybody knows it the glass house it’s the glass it’s the equivalent of leavenworth yeah and and everyone has you know you hear horror stories coming out of the glass house and what and what it actually is is because when you you have an escort that drops you off and the instructors are there to meet you and it’s like it is like a scenario full metal jacket they are screaming and shouting at you but as soon as they’ve gone they just treat you like adults you know i mean it’s um they take away all those sort of those creature comforts you know you don’t you’re not allowed to phone anyone it’s um two pt sessions a day it’s room inspections all the time i actually really enjoyed colchester um i said if if i got paid full full wages i would i would have really enjoyed it and it got to a stage actually where guys were going into colchester and coming out better soldiers a lot better soldiers and they were actually getting promoted when they got back to their units and they had to stop that they said no it’s you know you’re there for the wrong you know for bad bad reasons you can’t be seen to be be promoted so i did i did my time there and um went back to five nine
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