General Chat

Please dont read Rose's thread which some have choosen to blame it yet again on other races...FFS..

This is a subject very close to my heart right now. I think the RAF need all the support they can get. People do not realise there is war still goin on.

Daff, the meteor was going to go to another site in Gloucesster at the request of the council because it was built here. But the incomers want to keep it as a memento of the RAF occupation which is nice. we would have missed it.

Ann
Glos

I have not read all of this thread, but I was very disappointed when my son *passed out* of the Scots Guards, and we were not allowed to take his uniform home to have him photographed.

My father was a career soldier and he wore his uniform in the streets.

I also agree that the lads without uniforms were quite jealous and thought that the uniforms would walk off with their girls!

If they behaved like that.... they would !

Deanna X

Thanks Harry... I would love to see your poem too.

Ann, I just think I was one of those people who had a trouble magnet installed, lol... best friend always used to say that I lept precariously from one crisis to another, lol... She neglected to acknowledge that she was the cause of some of them!!

I'm glad the Meteor is staying... It would be really strange if they were to move that.

Love

Daff xxx

The folks in Peterborough should be ashamed of themselves

Daff, firemen, jump jet pilots, whatever next????

So sad, we went past there an hour ago and about 20 cars there. still some little pockets staying there I think. However was surprised to see the RAF flag had not been taken down completely. And they are retaining the static aircraft (meteor).

Ann
Glos

any chance of " the poem " being put on here Harry ?

or has it already been aired

xxLynnxx

Many thanks for all the replies. No problems Daff. Thanks for the greeting Hayley.
And yes Dave, was my poem. Anyone who reads the daily mail can,t be all bad.

Best wishes to all. Happy days

Hi Snowie.. I have the dubious distinction of having lived across the road from one of Grivas' Generals, lol

Were you based at Ay Nik??

Colin.... my FiL used to say the same... he came out of the Marines in the late 40's, but he also said that it wasn't just the money in their pocket.. it was the uniform wot did it!! The girls just loved it, and the lads couldn't or wouldn't compete, lol!! Dad was in for about 7 years altogether, so National Service was still going on then.

Harry... I think I have hijacked your thread... so sorry!!

Love

Daff xxx

Oh Ann........ I lived there for 6 years altogether.... How sad... everywhere I have lived is now being closed down, sold off, demolished or whatever.. I am beginning to feel quite depressed over it, lol

Marion.. I loved Rosen Montag.... I used to dress the boys up the first time we were there.. and all those sweeties thrown from the carnival floats, I'm not sure it would be allowed now, lol I lived just outside Wassenberg.. Wildenrath was just about 3 or 4 miles away. I once had a Harrier Jump jet co pilot eject into the back garden, lol!! That was when I lived in Private Hirings though!

Love

Daff xxx

We were told not to wear our RN uniform in the street in the early 80's but I dont know to this day why, we still stuck out like sore thumbs with our regulation haircuts and naval 'civvy' uniform of smart jeans, shirts and polished shoes (our pulling rig!).
There always was aggro between local youths and the military mainly due to the fact that we actually had cash in our pockets and they were either unemployed or in a dead end job but we usually outnumbered them and any aggro was short lived

Daff, I didn't go as I would not have been able to stand for very long so we actually went down to Haresfield to a garden centre and missed the small flypast (would have thought it at least deserved the Red Arrows. apparently they had the RAF band which played Dambusters as the flag was lowered when they fly past went over. I bet there were a few tears in eyes and lumps in throats.

Ann, was it yesterday.... how very sad!!

I remember how vulnerable I felt when they started to tear down all the fences... even though I had lived in the community in NI, which never bothered me in the slightest, lol!!

Love

Daff xxx

We could start our own, lol... my son was treated at Wegberg..... we lived near Wildenrath, do you know it?... I was there in the seventies and again in the eighties. It's all closed down now :0((

Love

Daff xxxx

I too remember having to check under our car when we were out and we were civvies working for the forces. Regular security briefings would put the fear of God into you. First reds under the beds, hissing Sid (the snake). and from about 1982 no open camps. No uniforms worn in public. And I could see why thatw as.

But this latest is disgusting, according to the media, it is white thugs in Peterborough who abuse anyone in uniform and is thought to be connected to troops in Iraq and afghanistan. Why can't they sort these thugs out?

It is not as if the base is new to the rea.

When we were teenagers I lived near a Naval base and there were army bases in the area too. All the personnel used to be out in uniform, Ok there were some skirmishes with civvie youths but most of them had done National service and accepted the existence of the forces.

I wonder iif the series on Afghanistan running on the news at the moment has sparked it off.

In this area we are sad at the moment because our RAF base closed yesterday. I will really miss seeing all the blue uniforms around.

Ann
Glos

1974 I was busy being evacuated from Area two in Famagusta, lol!!

I went to an awful lot of those briefings, lol... I still have an almost uncontrollable urge to accidentally on purpose drop my car keys so that I could scrabble around *looking* for them and check under the car for a booby trap (in the days before we got the mirrors that is what we had to do, lol).. that little RAF baby daughter was murdered just around the corner from me in the garage forecourt.. it was where we all had to hand in our petrol coupons!

So it isn't anything new, just the media hyping it up again!

Love

Daff xxx

so what happens if there is another world war are all these sados not going to fight for thier country

Hi Marion... when he first joined up, we were engaged, we married at the end of his basic training.. Easter leave! He used to be able to wear his uniform home then.. and on transport, in fact his Sgt encouraged the lads (most were lads, then) to wear it, as it was easier to hitch a lift back home so they could save their precious rail passes, lol. I think the QR's on dress regs were altered in 75 or 76... two young trainee soldiers hitch-hiking home were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the IRA. There were other incidents, but I think that was the main one.

Love

Daff xxx

Hi Harry , nice one, was that your poem in the Mail the other day? If so enjoyed it
Dave