Just on the live vs blanks debate. Not strictly TACEVAL story, but true.
St Angelo base in NI, early 1990s. Jayteeto doing service on puma helicopter, masked man running towards wire firing weapon on automatic. I had a live mag on my SA80 and the crewman was loading the GPMG, ****ting ourselves, preparing to return fire. Masked man stops and someone walks towards him from gatehouse. It was a planned exercise that they forgot to mention to us. After much shouting and swearing a pale faced SNCO realised how close things had gone, I reckon I was seconds from firing. He was sent home to England the next day........
Last edited by jayteeto; 4th Aug 2013 at 16:35.