Avionker
It was on the 14th August 1969 that I Personally passed the message to the Home Secretary (Mr Callaghan) that the request for the Troops to be deployed in Northern Ireland had been made and was being implemented.
In the years that followed I flew into Belfast and Dublin over 300 times - several dozen of those sorties to Belfast were to collect Casevacs. My last sortie into Belfast was on 23rd February 1995. I was therefore operating into Northern Ireland and Eire for a period in excess of 25 years.