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Old 31st Dec 2008, 17:32
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Seldomfitforpurpose
 
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Wrath,

I have horrible feeling you may be spot on I had the misfortune to be involved first hand and could well find my ugly mug on screen..........god forbid

Whilst there was some undeniably good footage of us doing airdrop and the like there is also some rather inane stuff that they may use. On my second to last night we were fortunate enough to pick up a nice Thai meal from Kabul which the film crew insisted they record us eating whilst sat in the para door for the transit home.......queue the usual pie eating comments that us Albert crews have worked so hard to engender over the years

However what that little snap shot will not convey is that

a This was the first hot meal the crew had had in 3 days.

b In my 16 day stint, short timer I know, we only made it to the mess 6 times due to tasking

c I lost 3/4 stone which by all accounts is not an untypical amount

I am sure to Joe Public the series will be pretty good and and will make fairly compelling watching but I have this sneaking feeling us light blue folk are going to be right royally raped by our sister services once this programme comes to air
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