I once had a date with a Turkish belly dancer in Aden....she was known as the Yemen Kurd Tart.

I knew her sister quite well, Shakin' Othman.

One of the guys I worked with told me he was on guard in Aden armed with a .303. He was told to let off a round if he spotted anything cracking off and everyone would come to his aid, about 3am he spotted intruders, fired in the general direction and they buggered off.
No one came lol and in the morning he faced an enquiry as to why he was short one round.

Maybe Herod was making a reference that a couple of Harriers should have been firing the Aden cannon - in a parallel world in which Cameron had not scrapped them prior to a major period of world instability.

Meanwhile - the desperately right-on MOD-to-journalist gravy train rumbles on to remind us of our duty to 'equality'

British Tornado 'with female air crew' bombs key Isil position - Telegraph

Training

The Harriers would have to be GR3... The 7/9's never had an ADEN Gun that worked!

Too long ago to be sure... Was ADEN an acronym for 'Armaments Development, ENfield', or similar?

I recall working on a cost benefit analysis involving aircraft taking out T72 MBT's in the Central Front, didnt make very good reading as I recall - but Brimstone vs pick up trucks! Better quickly pass over the chapter on Economic Warfare.:(

lucky the bit in ROEs about 'proportional response' doesn't mention 'cost benefit analysis'. Mind you, if I was on the receiving end of the .50cal(?) shells from one of those wildly inaccurate technicals, I'd vote for the biggest, most expensive bomb in the arsenal :E

As the National Council of Civil Liberty's legal officer Harman campaigned for sentences against paedophiles convicted for possession of indecent images to be reduced if it could be proved that the naked/photographed children had not been ‘harmed’. She and her kind had their day in the sun with Blair and ran amok with myopic vote winning social engineering. A truly dreadful woman and a vacuous and irrelevant political entity to boot.