I will always remember Basic Training as the best time in my life, Barry Larby was our Plt Sgt, and he once said this would be (We didn't believe it at the time) as he semed like a physco, 1 minute doing Frank Spencer impressions then screaming blue murder!
Funny that a lot of our DWTI we looked up to with awe, on meeting later in our career became a disappointment. Some of our plt staff:
A platoon
2Lt Archer (1st female I believe)
Sgt Bas Larby
Cpl Wayne Dayal
Cpl Chris Shields PTI
Cpl Scouse Robinson
Some Mad jock but can’t remember his name , but on the day we moved over from reception to A platoon him and Sharkey wandered into a room where we were being shown how to lay out a locker. (Had to have card inside your uniform so it was 9inc x 1 or laid out) One of the other recruits had left his locker open, and the mad Jock and Sharkey trashed it. Then the Jock lay on a bed with his hands behind his head, and said in a thick jock accent ‘welcome to the f**king British Army boys’ ! Bizarrely he turned out to be a great DWTI! Scared the crap out of me though!