Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
The worst thing I remember about my first SH tour in Germany was hearing the town siren going off in the early hours (as it often did) and not knowing if it was for real this time, or just another exercise.
I reckon that our Puma squadron would have lasted less than a couple of days had the tanks come rolling through westbound, bearing in mind our role and that the Soviets designed aircraft specifically to knock us out of the sky.
We reckoned on 30% losses per day on the Harrier force, so about 3 days before you picked up a rifle. Spare can of fuel in the cellar and wife briefed to bug out west if she didn’t hear that the hooter was for an exercise. Serious days and would certainly have been a medals job if they had come over the border. It was just accepted though and was a couple of very good tours.
Certainly don’t think it was worth a gong - had to wait until I was posted back to UK for those!!!
Mog