Pull up a sandbag ~ "I remember when..

[Al R]

• Michael Heseltine at Greenham Common in body armour.
• John T losing a 40mm M203 grenade and being charged.. 40 cents.
• Racing Chevy Blazers over the bunkers at Greenham Common.
• HTV (you really need to have walked the wire there to understand that one).
• Ok, I'll tell you. Heads Tents Vehicle checks at each camp.
• Being visited by a Group Captain who was wearing DPM.. with puttees and shoes.
• Seriously snogging some bird in the bus stop a mile outside camp late one night, and a police car pulling up.. with her dad driving it.
• Walking back, alone.
• Being spat at by a peace bitch and being called a traitor to my country.
• Accidentally opening the Chevy door in her face and asking her if she was ok.
• Generally, the warmth of the Americans at Greenham.
• PSP.. the Personal Reliability Programme (say buddy, we're gonna pull your PRP or hang your ass with an Article 15 if you continue to suggest President Reagan is dangerous).
• Redneck Doug Lassiter and his chewing tobacco.
• Doug filling 2 paper cups with baccy and phlem and putting them on the dash infront of him to compare with his buddies later.
• Marveling at the rapid acceleration of the Dodge Ram.
• Sorry Doug.. but it is a minging habit mate.
• Speaking on the internet with someone in Alaska, sometime in 1984.
• Video jukeboxes, 25 cents a pop.
• Southern Comfort and coke, in a plastic tumbler. Yum.
• American range management. (Is the line ready? Then.. aahhh, just.. go for it!!!).
• Firing the M203 practice rounds at Welford, and the wind catching the rounds and depositing them.. in the playground. The sight of day glo talc all over the kids slides was quite disturbing.