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BATUS Canada. We were on the very last MedMan of the 2002 season and it was absolutely Baltic. 

Just before EndEx we got a message over the radio that the famous General Sir Michael David Jackson, GCB, DSO, DL is coming to visit the troops

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Back in 2005 when I was a young Lance Corporal in C Company The Staffords, D Company where preparing to leave for a parade in Normandy, France, as their coach driver walked past C Company accommodation I thought it would be a good idea to take a few pot shots at him with my air rifle from the accommodation window.

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Being from north of the border I do like a wee dram of whiskey now and again, so when I arrived on tour and discovered that the bar only served cans of Tennnent’s lager, you know the ones with the half naked lady on the tin and cans of Strongbow cider I wasn’t best pleased.

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Not sure how true this is but funny all the same. During the handover of a guard tower on my first day at the Maze Prison the lad who I was taking over from told me the story about one of his squadron who was on stag in the very same tower we where in.

 

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Whilst out on a foot patrol in South Armargh we had to stop at farm complex to give it a quick search, nothing to serious so no need for a search team. The weather had been unusually nice as in it wasn’t raining like it normally does, in fact we had a few weeks of sunshine.

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