16/17 January 1991-What were you doing?
In between night shifts I think I was that night, followed by bouts of sleeping, loading things, drinking, sleeping, loading things, sleeping, loading things, drinking.....and so on, at BZZ.
Was a cold Winter as I recall. Lots of snow and ice on the Waterfront at times.
Was a cold Winter as I recall. Lots of snow and ice on the Waterfront at times.
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Flying in Hercules Mk3 XV202 as Air Eng, over the heel of Italy heading for Akrotiri and then onto Riyadh. First we knew was when the Italian ATC started talking to all the MAC aircraft telling them that Egyptian airspace was closed and that they would have to choose an alternate in Europe. That was a lot of aircraft to turn back that night!
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Similar to Insty66. I was manning a commcen that serviced an Army Manning and Records Office, hoping not to receive any CASREPs (which I didn't, thankfully).
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Leading 3 x VC10Ks plus 8 x Tornados on the first attack mission against (I think) Talil.
Did you give those Tornadoes as much gas as you give here? Do you bomb here as often as you bombed there?
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On my way to Oman to pick up bits of Tonka that had gone in on a trg sortie a couple of days before. Will never forget being in the Detco's office in Dharhan when a highly stressed and sweaty SAC rushed in with a rather important FLASH signal. Needless to say I was hurriedly asked to leave as something important had come up.
Too bad that the 2 guys in the jet died on a trg mission before the big match ....
Too bad that the 2 guys in the jet died on a trg mission before the big match ....
I had been given 30 minutes to vacate my apartment in Amman, Jordan and report to the British Embassy. Mrs Wyler had already gone via Cyprus. I was then spirited away to an air base where I was put on Douglas Hurds VC10 and flown to Turkey, where I enjoyed an all expenses paid night in the Hilton. Then it was on to Brussels where we were all put into a Hotel for 6 hours and then back to the VIP terminal at Heathrow where I was taken to the Mess at West Drayton. I was due in the MOD the following day for a 'debrief' which was a bit of a waste of time as it all kicked off overnight.
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In sunny Tabuk, in full IPE, ruminating on the fact that my planned R&R in Bahrain on the 18th might not be going ahead!
And counting them all out, hoping to count them all in...
And counting them all out, hoping to count them all in...
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Sitting on the Devil's Hill in Berlin reading the unclas progress reports, wishing the boys going sausage-side safe return and wondering where the peace had gone, having just won the Cold War and all....
Oh yes, and slagging off CNN/Sky for being about as accurate as a weather forecast and employing the most useless bunch of 'specialists' to pontificate about stuff they knew f***-all about
Oh yes, and slagging off CNN/Sky for being about as accurate as a weather forecast and employing the most useless bunch of 'specialists' to pontificate about stuff they knew f***-all about
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On IOT, taking advantage of the sudden disappearance of all our Regt instructors.
A few weeks later deployed forward....... holding at Swanton Morely, helping input all the fatigue data for the bits bolted on to the GR1s at the last minute.
N Joe
A few weeks later deployed forward....... holding at Swanton Morely, helping input all the fatigue data for the bits bolted on to the GR1s at the last minute.
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At CFS Scampton as the Blunty Gnd School Instructor. It was blooming cold and snowed a lot! CFS trg continued but the TV was on all the time. Scampton's population rapidly swelled by arrival of loads of US Reserve Docs and dentists - most of whom weren't needed in the end fortunately - it still seems surreal even now!
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Walking around a certain UK C in C's residence wondering why a strange car is pulling up the drive at 22:30 hours???....Occupant is stopped and I'm handed a small sealed envelope. C in C somewhat disturbed when I handed him the envelope.....2 hours later the penny drops...
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On nights on TWCU playing musical engines between UK-based GR1s with Mk101 donks and RAFG jets with Mk103s. Got an early stack at 0300ish, then got home and was advised by SWMBO to put the telly on. Did so and remember seeing Ian Long describing exactly how scared he had been!