| Lots of my mates had call sign "Felix".
They had some fun stories to tell, esp in NI and Cyprus.
Once decided that a short-cut across a RA shell impact area was the only way to make up lost time on a black-out night nav-ex. My platoon never did see the humour/ logic in it once they twigged to it! Lost one guy downstream as he stepped into a swollen river during a crossing and he disappeared from view. Close call - rather him than me! Shouldn't have been a such short ar£e!
Got hounded / shadowed out of Vietnam in '91 - now that was surreal - as I was carrying papers that I'd smuggled out of a "rebelling" monastery and they knew pretty much so.
Seeing a Vango Force Ten tent, with storm flaps, that not minutes before I'd been keeping dry within, get blown off the ridgeline right in front of me in the Brecon Beacons. With a guy inside still!
Tim
[Edited on 4-11-2004 by aws] |