Medals
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15 years ago I met a US Marines Captain on board an RN Minesweeper in Bremerhaven, Germany, during a VIP reception. After a couple of G&Ts the conversation focused on his medals and he sheepishly admitted that one was for being in the Northern Ireland combat zone...at 34 000 feet in Business Class on a US Airlines flight to Germany.
The p!ss was extracted from him for a while but he took it well.
The minesweeper had led the fleet into the Arabian Gulf before the ground assault of the the first Gulf War kicked off.
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