Originally Posted by
str12
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.
Went to Salalah once. That was a war zone but only up to FL100. As we were at FL500 at the time the controller told us we were well clear and no traffic our level.
