 During the winter of 1972/73 I was drafted to HMS Dolphin to complete the Polaris Submariners Course. As part of the Ships Company we all had to do Anti Vandal/Security Sentry during our stint on duty watch.I remember one cold and miserable morning around 0400hrs being woken from a warm bed and given a radio and a pick axe handle then having to guard one of the landing jetties for the next four hours, (another eight or ten of us dotted around the camp guarding various other things). I was trying to stop the rain/sleet from running down my neck and was stamping my feet to keep the circulation going when my radio clicked into life... "I'm bored with this"
Silence for nearly ten minutes then... "God this is so bl**dy boring"
Again, silence for ten minutes or so then... "I'm so bored with this I could just sh*t!"
This time the radio message was answered... "This is the Officer of the Day, who is that?"
Silence for about ten seconds then... "I'm not that bored!"
Although we were all questioned on changeover, no one was done for it.
It livened up an otherwise boring duty. | 
