Army twins retire after 100 years
2009-07-24 Source:Agencies
They chose to join the Royal Armoured Corps, working with tanks and armoured vehicles. Jimmie said: "We were both promoted on the same day, five months after joining the 10th Royal Hussars, in Paderborn in Germany. "After that, we were promoted to the same rank on the same day for every rank in our career, except Warrant Officer Class 1, but not too far apart." Ron said the pair had a gentle rivalry. "We're pretty similar," he said. "We've always got on fairly well, and got on even better together when I became Warrant Officer Class 1 and Regimental Sergeant Major before him because he did what he was told." The brothers were commissioned as officers just months apart in 1986, with Jimmie going into the Royal Army Medical Corps, and Ron into the Army Air Corps. Even the twins' private lives ran along parallel lines, with the pair marrying within one month of each other. |