Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
6 months patrolling within the wire at Khormaksar was pretty tedious - in general the bad guys will go for soft targets, and a well defended base does not come into that category. We did break the monotony doing impromptu road blocks at the Northern end of the causeway. The plan was that a few chaps took off in a Whirlwind, landed near the road and had a temporary roadblock set up within a minute or so. I dont recall us ever finding anything untoward in any of the vehicles we searched, but at least it relieved the boredom, which was always a problem at that stage in 1966 as things hadn't really hotted up. I had to stop the chaps using the hand throttle on our Land Rovers, setting it to around 10 mph out on the airfield somewhere, then both jumping out and running round the vehicle and swapping seats!
Why?
Didn't the passenger have a Class C Licence?
