Vote Please
Hello Everybody, Obama is about to announce a Cold War Medal in the US and there is also an E-Petition in this country entitled "We should honour the service personnel who protected the UK during the Cold War" Now like the pensions pre-75 complaints and the ongoing E-Petition and also the ongoing NDM campaign please make a vote on the E-Petitions site. Just moaning on this website is not enough "Our Apathy To Not Bother To Vote On These E-Petitions Leads To The Governments Apathy To Award, So Far As They Are Concerned We Are Not Bohered So Why Should They Be" Please go on Google pick up the links and Vote. Cheers Pony Moore Ex-RN
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Hi Clive
I also was involved in the Cuban crisis based at Gaydon as a air electrician i worked in the armoury on nuclear bomb gear and carried out all the tests prior to loading did'nt actually know anything till it was all over, my presence was requested yes i mean requested on at Sunday lunch...
I was ground crew on a V-bomber base in Norfolk at the tome of the Cuban missile crisis. Our aircraft on QRA were loaded and ready to go. It was a scary time knowing that we were probably a target for a nuke. My family were at home 5 miles from the base and we had made a makeshift fallout shelter...
I was with 4th Regt. RA in Munsterlager in 1973-74. I seem to remember being told by a fairly high ranking officer that if the Russians attacked from the East German border we had a shelf life of about 12 minutes! Talk about boosting morale. It was no wonder we drank the place dry.
Anyone remember 431 ED Hamburg (Signals Section) Surely there must be someone still alive apart from myself ! Per Ardua ad Aspidestra. Regards to you all. (2350394)
served in the Royal Marines, was sent in a detachment to the Falklands in 1952, to protect them from Argentine invasion, we were the first British troops down there
Hurry up and issue this medal. I,m nearly 82. Did,not realise at the time how close we were to certain death.
I did 3 years in Verden from 1964 and it was a tense time, we deserve to be recognised.
I understand that more pilots died in flying accidents in WW2 than died in combat in the Battle of Britain. This was certainly true of my cohort who flew jet aircraft 1963-1971 where many were killed practicing for war. Yep I reckon recognition of a dangerous job would be worthwhile
P Rawlings
sappers I did 6 years BFPO 31 HAMELN
I did 5 years in Fallingbostel BFPO38 and over those years we did our Regimental Crash outs and Nato ones Also border Patrols and so on , We have left something out how many troops were killed during these crash outs and exercises from the start of the Cold War can I say we lost two Scots Greys in...