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Originally Posted by Griefbringer
And there I was hoping to hear about a new experimental balloon corps, hovering over the battlefield like Puffy the Magic Dragon and spewing forth fire and brimstone with their mortars.
Granted, firing a muzzle-loading mortar from a balloon could be quite tricky.
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Nope - just their nickname in the usual intra-unit "friendly rivalry" back in the non-PC 1970s. It may well have come from the name for their drinking and football teams (same thing really).
Probably comes from a concatenation of
bampot (Local Scots vernacular, similar to the Irish
eejit) +
loon, and all rhyming with platoon.
Cheers
Andy