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Any VETs from NAM?

 
 
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:29 am    Post subject: Any VETs from NAM? Reply with quote

Hi,

Recently, SWMBO aked why they gave me a couple of NAAFI tokens for being in Malaya ... MALAY PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN MEDAL and a PINGAT JASA MALAYSIA medal from the local Prime Minister ... something to do with keeping the peace. ???

I was in charge of vehicle serviceability on a RAF SAM site (Bloodhounds) on RAAF Butterworth.

Answer? "Coz we were in a war zone, Darling"!

"I DIDN'T KNOW THAT! " she squeaked Two years living on Penang Island and she still moans that I never take her anywhere!

Whatever, the Bloodhounds must have been there for a reason. ????

My question is ... how far is Penang from where the fighting was in Vietnam?

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Lovely girls the Oz nurses ... reputed to jump into the jungle without parachutes ... and run out with a wounded soldier in each hand.

OK, the Ozzies were fighting in Nam, (but we weren't), and Indonesia used send rowing boats agross, to blow up sanitation

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know but the small airfield opposite where I work used to have 2 bloodhound missiles pointing to the sky on their launchers. I always wondered why but the police came one weekend and hid in our lorry trailers to watch the airfield for drugs being flown in so maybe that's something to do with it Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RAF Aberporth had them as gate guardians too.

now its MOD Aberporth, pretty much owned by qinetiq and houses drones


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ones around here were stationed at Misson rocket site which was used to protect RAF Finningly when it had the Vulcans and associated nuclear weapons. There was also an early warning station near the long abandoned RAF Lindholme which gave enough warning of an incoming missile to get the planes off the ground to retaliate. It was sold a few years ago and someone is turning it into a home I think.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

While I was RAAF Butterworth, we had a pep-talk about security, with a mention of the new Oz CO "not arriving", and the possibility that "communications" had been intercepted, and "they"were waiting for him.

I assumed he had been flying in from Oz.

It's just dawned on me that he was probably flying in from 'nam.[/i]

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