Originally Posted by
ORAC
GSM? I haven't even got one of them, or a Jubilee or anything else. Then again, only thing I ever had fired at me was a mess bazooka - so I'm not complaining.
It was almost unusual to see anyone except the Regiment and SH force walking around in RAF blue and wearing medals in the 1980s, I would imagine the opposite is now true.
Very true. When I returned to the mainland in 1976 after a two year tour at Ulster Radar, and sporting the GSM (NI), more than once was I challenged and asked
"Are you entitled to wear that?"