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Originally Posted by Eddie Parks
But its all good fun - unless you are struggling to say "Don't shoot I'm a friend" on a pitch black night!
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In Omani colloquial that would be "la ramee ana sidiq", but in MSA it might be "la tutliq alnaar 'ana sadiq" ... so you'd better check first which version the sentry speaks ... hadn't you! Remembering that even on exercise the sentries had a live round up the spout.
Better still try to remember the password. Which the Omanis founds so difficult that we used a number code. So if tonight's code is 6 and the sentry taps his magazine twice you tap yours four times. Which was fine with the gunners who could all add up but I am not so sure about the infantry.
Or you could try "'ana 'astaslim" which means I surrender.