The two monkeys - a story

A few days ago I was sitting with a friend and out of the blue he started to tell me about his life in the army. At one point of his career he was based in the middle east where in his camp the regiment adopted and reared two baby chimps. the chimps apparantly had a good life, were well looked after, however the boys tried to include them in their activities !! so being para's they taught the chips to parachute by taking them to the top board of the diving tower, putting small parachutes on their backs and dropping them to the pool below. Obviously the chimps were not amused but they swam to the side where they were recovered.
This eventually led to them being smuggled on board a Herculese transporter plane, without the RAF knowing, and as the Para's jumped the chimps were taklen out with them complete with their own parachutes. My friend said that he could hear the chimps squealing all the way down, where they did land safely and without injury, however the soldiers were lying on the ground in hysterics and the chimps, being angry, were running about biting them - all ended well.

Next part of the tale, was literally monkey roullette. The troops had in their billett an overhead fan to keep them cool so they would all get round a table under the fan - put £5 each in the pot and then turn on the fan. They then flung a monkey up who caught the blades of the fan and was spun round - next move was to turn up the speed of the fan so that the chimp was going round faster and faster, squealing, etc, untill it reached the point where it could not hang on and was flung off. When it was flung off it would invariably land on one of the troops, and being rather unhappy with the proceedings would bite whoever it landed upon. If the soldier reacted and fell off his seat or jumped away he was eliminated from the game - which continued until only one person remained who won the Pot.
My friend did say that the chimps were generally good natured and most of the time enjoyed their contact with the troops who genuinely did care for them.