I was at Bruggen.
Lasting memories of Lionheart
Walking into a pitch black HAS to find a lad sent over from UK to take part working on a Jag in the pitch black, because he didn't read German and no one had shown him how to turn the lights on nor how to use the phone.
Although we only took part in the exercise ourselves for the early phase, the jets continued to play for the whole exercise.... However, the Armourers were "injured" early on and were injected into the exercise and were being evacuated by military hospital train, they spent a week moving from siding to siding as the train was worked into the normal train timetable, eventually ending up full of casualties with dwindling resources on board and a pissed off Army crew onboard taking it out on the punters, they turned up a week after we had finished severely peeved, even more so when they found out we finished the exercise literally an hour or so after they left.
The German soldier that went AWOL with his weapon and who they had issued an arrest warrant for, that turned up a week plus after Endex still sitting in his trench guarding the bridge he had been left at and forgotten, it was only after a local villager, one of the many that had taken pity on him and had been feeding and watering him (as he had ran out of everything) phoned up the Army to complain at his treatment, that the penny dropped.
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