G'day lads, I was just now reading a fiction thriller involving "Conspiracy Theories" when a thought popped into my head ( I know-bags of room). B Coy were doing the quick move month at RAF Maharaq Bahrain, and going in for breakfast one morning the Cook said "President Kennedy has been assassinated"
My first rapid thoughts were

1) Sht WW 111 is going to kick in any minute now.

2) UK and Europe will go - along with my family and friends.

3) The fckng Ruskies have always wanted a warm water port and access to the gulf so 2 Para has got it coming big time !

It never happened of course but the Cold War was at it's height at that time and it seemed a feasible outcome to me

QUESTION Where were you ( For those born at that time !) when you got the news and what did you think?

Mike

Mike,
I remember it as if it were yesterday, I was sitting in a pub with a lovely young Welsh girl telling her I was thinking of joining the army,,,,,,,, She wasn't impressed,,,,,,,

No one was that impressed when JFK was topped

Jackie and the kids were!!

Hi mike remember well i was sitting in the havelock arms when it came on the news. being B.COY 5PLN then i must have been in aldershot on my p.t course while you poor buggars were playing soldiers read your posts with interest. the one face that has'nt changed over the years
all the best to all the family for 2008.
Bill Blinco [/u]

Hi Mike, I think I was in the queue behind you thinking I hope he doest break my f....... fried egg again.

Regards Les

I was standing in front of the Head Master . Getting the shit batterd out of me again .
Wonder if they sold Backon sarnies. In the bay of Pig,s

A Tabb of 50 miles starts with a single step

Must of been for your SPELLING Hoggie

A Tabb of 50 miles starts with a single step

Honestly Taff you can be such a bitch at times, there's nothing wrong wth Hoggys spelling !

Remember - "Dyslexia rules. K.O." ?

Mike

MIKE At the time I was leading a pit pony to the coal face to deliver wooden pit props that they needed to support the coal face Trev

It was the day when I joined my first Coy(A) at Jebel Ali

Talk about the blind leading the blind!

If memory serves me correctly the RAF Quick Move Coy would be next to fly out to Jebel Ali, the Jebel Ali Coy would fly back to Bahrain and C Coy would move to RAF Muharaq .

Has anyone seen the tarmac motorways around Dubai on TV , big sign posts to Jebel Ali etc!

Mike

Danny, Hello you old bugger,nice to see you back on line,do hope you had a nice christmas and a good new year,? see you in feb Trev

Good day Trev. Hope that all is well with you and that your xmas was as good as mine. Hopefully am having a good New Year. Haven't been on the mountains for about 4 years following on from car accident and thought that I wasn't going up again. However a friend has expectations that we are going back up so am going to have to get rid of some of this accrued fat. Will be good to get up Cadair Idris which, although on my doorstep, I haven't been up. Bloody crazy....spent a fortnight on top of Jebel Akhdar thousands of miles away but haven't been up Cadair which is next door!!
Hope to see you in Feb......stay sane, Danny

I realise the I am a bit late with this but most of C Coy had jumped into Das Island that morning and were having their rations cook by C/Sgt (Name??] when the news came through

Mick Rooney

Mike, I think youll find that that is supposed to be 'dyxsleksia rules ok'

Hi Mick, I think it would have been Jimmy knowles was colour man in `63..Bert

Working at Firestone tires, ten p.m. till six a.m. shift. Burns and grease all over my arms but, my, the money was good. We were taking a break when the news came on and couldn't believe it. I went to the States the next year for the first time and went to live there in 1965.

I was serveing in the CDN army in germany, their was a boxing match on CANADA/USA when the news came through about JFK, cancelled the match, (we were winning) but eveen more scarey was the cubin missle crisess, all NATO forces were deplyed to battle positions in germany, it was really scarey s...t time, as we NATO forces were suppose to only last 3 days, anyone who lived through the cubin crisess will remember S...TTHIS IS IT, anyone serving PARA REGT at the time.

I Think I was sitting the 11 plus that day

What a good start up thread Mike.

In Nov 63 when JFK was assassinated, I was already in jpc, and that day thought;
Why am I in Wales climbing mountains that even some Welshmen would not climb?

No in fact I couldn’t wait for the day that I could get into one of the Btn’s and be in man service.
Having your bed turned over almost every night, wasn’t much fun.
Not withstanding all the bullying, beastings and barrack room courts that were going on at that time.
Couldn’t wait to go and fight the big bear. Yea right.

Don't think you passed it though Perc