Originally Posted by
NutLoose
And having some Colonials laughing at our Wessex and pointing out they had them in Vietnam, I replied erm... and those? pointing at their Chinook behind them.
Went to visit SK in Jan 94 with my best mate (who ended going in and retiring as a Wing Commander end of last year) on holiday to see family in HK. Anyhow picked up a copy of the last ever Gai Lung, base magazine. The front cover showed one of the Tarawa class LHD in dock at HMS Tamar on a visit with 28 Sqn mount flying over it as welcome. Flight deck full of Post Desert Storm Battle grey Air Combat Element (CH-46E Phrogs, AV-8B Harrier II, AH-1W SuperCobra/UH-1N and CH-53E Super Stallion).
28 Sqn crews laughingly said the Flying Leathernecks thought they thought they were in a time warp looking at the Wessex thinking of their generation before flying the UH-34D Seahorse from Da Nang 2 and half decades earlier...
cheers