TheManFromWem
Old-Salt

I'm sure we all have a lot of things under our belt, including overseas tours and unaccompanied ( no family ) forays overseas ( Doesnt include Wales ).....
To start it off, mine was in the Maldives in the 1970's , when most of the Lads on Gan, Hittadu et al, were pretty legless towards the end of December..............
Miine was to man (person) the Radio Comms office and to make sure all the HF, VHF and UHF tranmitters and Receivers wore still working...........
We were expecting a VC10 to arrive 27-28 DEcember, unless it had been TBN at Cyprus,.....
Wending my way through the corpses on the floor on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Myself and mate (Duncan Martin , Radar Fitter ), made sure that if a ship/aircraft/sub etc. needed help, we were there for them....
Air Traffic somhow got the VC10 to land safely and the SAS flight (staging and service (, sent it on its way to Honkers , I think ??
Luckily nobody needed our assistance. We did not even get a call from the Yanks on Diego Garcia, a little to the south of us.....
( well, apart from some of the UK/USA scaliey's ( married chaps ) crying about their kids and missus back home )....
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So , in summary ,
My Chrismas and New Year were spent SOBER, Working, and keeping the Island afloat..................Boy, when the New Year came , WE had a great time catching up.
Seasons greetings from Howard in the Midlands.............HOW WAS YOURS, ?????
(warts and all)...............
To start it off, mine was in the Maldives in the 1970's , when most of the Lads on Gan, Hittadu et al, were pretty legless towards the end of December..............
Miine was to man (person) the Radio Comms office and to make sure all the HF, VHF and UHF tranmitters and Receivers wore still working...........
We were expecting a VC10 to arrive 27-28 DEcember, unless it had been TBN at Cyprus,.....
Wending my way through the corpses on the floor on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Myself and mate (Duncan Martin , Radar Fitter ), made sure that if a ship/aircraft/sub etc. needed help, we were there for them....
Air Traffic somhow got the VC10 to land safely and the SAS flight (staging and service (, sent it on its way to Honkers , I think ??
Luckily nobody needed our assistance. We did not even get a call from the Yanks on Diego Garcia, a little to the south of us.....
( well, apart from some of the UK/USA scaliey's ( married chaps ) crying about their kids and missus back home )....
.
So , in summary ,
My Chrismas and New Year were spent SOBER, Working, and keeping the Island afloat..................Boy, when the New Year came , WE had a great time catching up.
Seasons greetings from Howard in the Midlands.............HOW WAS YOURS, ?????
(warts and all)...............