Why Urqh can be a pain in the ....The explanation from Urqh

Well the 60m range does throw a monkey wrench in my theory. We were SpecOps but, I guess that some of our fellow students could have also been members of the super secret staring at goats program. They must have been placed in our ranks to practice their skills and to frustrate our progress! No, I no longer have any affiliation with the DoD, I'm not responsible for their contacting you, I guess you attracted their attention all by yourself. BTW, did Hitler, (the goat) have any special training to make him resistant to the "staring" thing?

 

Can we call Urqh Mr. Fistinhisface?...If I got punched in the kisser that often, I'd change my tactics. Kudos to Urqh for being authentic.

 

Usmc, I think your suspicions maybe correct, When I was over there with Hitler I overheard some of the members of one goat staring class talking of the USMC Spec Ops anti goat Surveillance team that was in training in the area...A sort of friendly testing unit...If Hitler had got hold of em I dont thing his reaction would have been too friendly though. I have in my long years of Military goat handling managed to come up with a system of identifying such interlopers...One which has been accepted by all Nato members apart from Turkey who object because they can. The French have their own system of course. The Dutch smoke goats, The Belgians will do what ever anyone tells them to do, the Germans have their own goat program which the Poles object to. The Irish take the goat...just take it...where I do not know...The Spanish ate my goat memorandum and the United States have stolen my idea and put a stars and stripes on it. But basically..On morning parade...Take a look at the feet....All polished boots, shoes etc are the good guys...The interloper will be the ones with hoove type feet...Generally this is a good recognition system...Believe me I have a pic of such an interloper. Pass it on to your Intel folk. I'll send it shortly under RAF comms secret telecoms systems...Or better known as internet.

 

The way to tell friend from goat...

 

No, unfortunately that's not it. I had gotten out of the Marine Corps and was in the U.S. Army at the time I had the interaction with the goats. I think the whole, killing a goat by staring at it was restricted to the Army. The Marine Corps is more direct and to a degree childish in their interaction with the wildlife/live stock. When I was a Marine we were continually warned to leave the wildlife alone. We never did and someone always ended up getting hurt.

 

You have a vivid imagination Urqh... Canadian goats?

 

OKok, lol already. How aboot Canadian goats? Well behaved but rather pale? The nice but boring goat? ...Nice pic above. There are a lot of old south stories about women dancing with a hot new stranger. The crowded dance floor prevented people from seeing the cloven hooves. snopes.com: Devil in the Dancehall

 

The art and practice of goat handling here in the states, mostly the Southern states, is referred to as "goat roping". The skill is highly sought after on most ranches and farms. So Urqh, being that you are an RAF goat handler, that makes you an "honorary goat roper" as well. Who says that most military skills are not applicable to the civilian world eh?

 

True true...I have the same problem even today with the sheep and local gypsies.

Just so you all know, the Royal Marines have been in touch and state I can tell you the story of how one lone airman and his goat ended up on goat ridge in the falklands war surrounded by roughie toughie paras, Scots Guards and Royal Marines. In fact Hitler and I were probably the only RAF ground troops commited to that particualar war. I only volunteered for a days fishin...I thought thats what the Wing commander said...Turned out he wanted a volunteer for a dangerous mission...the tannoy over to the bird scaring detail at the end of the runway was particularly bad that day.

 

In reference to that movie comedy Men Who Stare at Goats, if I'm not mistaken what they used were the famous (or infamous) Tennessee Fainting Goat as the props. They don't really faint, but a gene in their system causes their muscles to lock up when they are startled, and they just fall over. Here is a link to them on YouTube.

Goto:

Fainting Goat - YouTube

There was an episode of Myth Busters which featured the little critters too.

 

Bobby is correct in that Goat Roping is a highly prized skill on American ranches and farms. Unfortunately, this high demand makes it hard for the military to recruit skilled goat ropers. The military goat roping course has long proven inadequate in training skilled goat ropers and whenever they've deployed their goat ropers the results have been near disasterous. That's why a screwed up/confused situation is often referred to as a "goat rope". The Pentagon considers this goat roper gap, (the gap between the number of skilled goat ropers needed for operations and the number of skilled, proficient goat ropers available) to be one of the U.S. militaries greatest weaknesses and one that our potential enemies are likely to exploit. It makes me feel good to know that Britain, has skilled goat ropers to help fill the gap.

 

Boy Clint, I am glad to see you post today. All weekend I worried that you would be trapped in your home, surrounded by fanatical PETA members, after revealing Goat, William NMI (Billy) 's tasty demise.

 

usmc...I see we are on the same page with regard to goating...Its a talent bestowed on few. The US/UK Have long been on the same thought process where goat wars are concerned...Skynet 5 the UK satellite not the self aware thingy..When launched contained a x band rather than ku or ka band frequency hopper precisely becuase the requirements of your tactcal terminals were nearly at saturation point...The Talon ground station was in fact produced precisely because your goats were not of the same hearing attenuation as British goats. There was a mis spacing I think of 0.005 in the common frequency reception which caused your goats to explode I believe. Intelsat had to rent commercial space in the short term before our Pardigm mod telecoms company could make up the spare capacity and stop the blue on blue Afghan goat exploding scenario that was much damaging the joint effort of us uk goat warfare. This is the main reason I refused point blank to take Hitler to Afghanistan. After seeing the results of the goat predictive radiation testng using Nasa satellites. I insisted with the queen that Hitler and myself would never leave the shores of Blighty until the x band loss was made up. And bugger me if just when we were ready to deploy...Libya...More x band requirement...I almost cried when I found out we could not now be deployed and give the allied forces our standard of service..honed as you know over many years. But until Skynet 5d is launched we are staying put. As you know this could be some time as the satellite insurance market precludes the use of this satellite under British Strategic defense requirements mutual contracts signed by Liam Fox and Clinton last year. Clinton did so want to utilise Hitler. She saw us as a defence against all that was rotten in the defence procrument sector of both our great nations..I dont now know what to do...Should I hang on for premature voluntary release or hope that the wars all end before I get deployed with our strategy winning system....Its a bugger this one..

 

They don't really faint, but a gene in their system causes their muscles to lock up when they are startled, and they just fall over

Clint I know that scenario too well. The goat is usually ok though. I think I just have tight boots.

 

None that I'm aware of. Although I do suffer from vertigo and the wife says I have learned a few languages over the years...Theres French...Forces slang..and apparantly she says I talk rubbish...

 

I've just returned from a forthight's holiday and tried reading through this thread...............

..........now I need another holiday..........

 

Welcome back Martin. Was it a WW2 themed holiday?

As for this thread, I suggest you read it again after downing a few large whiskies - it will then make sense!

 

"Through adversity to the stars".

Now I understand.


KTK

 

Its actually all Martins fault...Him and Stevin...Their fault I found this site. BG...Before goat.