Originally Posted by
Dougie M
By all accounts the best Gulf Medal award was to the Guards polo team who were training at Happy Valley polo field in Episkopi Cyprus during the hostilities and were deemed to have been within "scud range" from Iraq. They were most surprised when the gongs arrived in the Adj's office.....allegedly.
Agreed, and the schoolies/scribblies at Akrotiri got a medal too, whilst VC10 crews flying into an area with a few miles of the Kuwaiti border, and subjected to Scuds and Patriots having a go at each other (+ the occasional Patriot thinking a VC10 was a nice juicy target) got nothing.
