Funny if it wasn't serious

[j.sabourn]

#10. My wife reckons my drinking habits have kept me alive Keith, she reckons I’m pickled.
#9. Shaun I was fortuanate as sailed with Navy Divers, but know they went the soonest into commercial diving where the real big money was made. With the navy though there were always at least one naval surgeon in attendance , not so up on the commercial side though. Even the Navy Divers were well paid, but commercial they were paid by the minute , living in the chambers sometimes for over a week at a time whatever the helium
and other gasses did to their bodies must be well known by now. Cheers JS.

[cappy]

#10. My wife reckons my drinking habits have kept me alive Keith, she reckons I’m pickled.
#9. Shaun I was fortuanate as sailed with Navy Divers, but know they went the soonest into commercial diving where the real big money was made. With the navy though there were always at least one naval surgeon in attendance , not so up on the commercial side though. Even the Navy Divers were well paid, but commercial they were paid by the minute , living in the chambers sometimes for over a week at a time whatever the helium
and other gasses did to their bodies must be well known by now. Cheers JS.

###pat has a cousin a ex navy diver .....then commercial .....absolutely bloody knacked ......healthwise ....a nice house plenty bucks ....no life.......breathing shot ...no oxygen in his body ....lives in darras hall ......football land north of newcastle ......sad .......nothing worth that

[John Pruden]

my cousin ex army was blown up in northern Ireland had a few months left in the army after hospital the army sent him to portlan down 3 months he was there came out a very different man no energy nervous never slept after coming out of the military hospital visits sent to by the family doctor could not get a job and the lad was a worker a total change in himself let himself go so the family knew something was wrong when it came about that he was working with chemical weapons his doctors wrote to the military to try and find out what he was working with no chance official secrets act he has been unemployable for over 20 years liver kidney bones problems the bomb never near as bad as the afters ? true..jp

[Lewis McColl]

There were a lot of lads came out of the Army having done several tours in N Ireland , damaged in a lot of ways, but sadly cast aside by successive governments. RUC constables the same , but for them they were frontline 24/7 and not on 4 month tours. I have friends who were RUC, 6 in total two committed suicide, thankfully the most of the lads are fine. All are divorced now though. I know one of there wives. She was telling me her husband was impossible to live with, became a heavy drinker, nightmares and was bordering on becoming violent. She still loved him but it was no longer the man she married. They are giving it a go again after 10 years apart. My mate is tea total now and is a very gentle soul, still a bit twitchy at times and occasionally finds that dark place in his life. We meet a couple of times a year for bike meets. I August at least two of us are ridding the Wild Atlantic Way.
We all have our demons, especially those who have witnessed war and been up close to violent death.

[j.sabourn]

As kids of our generation no one soldier sailor or airman was more aware of the war than those who lived in the blitzed cities. You went to bed on the air raid siren and hopefully you woke up with the all clear going. Professional servicemen today know what they are going into, unfortuanetley different people have different stress levels, no two persons are the same. All your heroes and made up ones usually don’t act on a well thought out plan they jump in with the Adrenalin and depending how long that lasts is usually the length of time they last also. Those who attain great deeds to other people’s thinking are usually just ordinary people who under different circumstances and different scenarios would more than likely have acted differently. The real heroes are the ones who say nowt. And just get on with the job. Cheers JWS.

[John Pruden]

john my brothers grandson was 18 first tour of Iraq the soldiers were told to be friendly to people away from the battles his first day patrolling the streets soldiers were giving sweets to the kids he gave a handful to a 6 year old little girl that afternoon he had to roll that child into a carpet she had been shot in the head for taking and smiling at the soldiers it near drove him mad and was under counselling for a long time after that who would not have been at 18 or any age he still has nightmares to this day? true jp

[Keith Tindell]

Going back to Des,s original point of decontamination, it brings up an interesting discussion, and one I have had before. Decontamination consists of coming from the " dirty zone " and into a clean zone to be hosed down, and there to another zone where all clothing and suits are bagged and sealed. Now come the questions, who decontaminated the decontaminating officer ?, and so on adfinitum. Also the water used for hosing down the operative, is that running to waste and causing further contamination down the drains ?, if the water is kept in a dam while hosing down, what happens to the water afterwards ?, it's a question of how far you take it. Thankfully I have never had to deal with anything remotely like these guys have, just a point of discussion, kt

[robpage]

In Farlington Portsmouth we had ammonia refrigeration and I think we're the only local place that carried it so we regularly got Cosham fire station who would send their finest round to go through what do we do if there's a major ammonia leak

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Keith.
An excellent thought, and no doubt not something Govt Ministers would even consider, and yet it it something that could affect their own families. We are in the hands of lunatics with dirtier and dirtier ways just to kill people. I would love to go back to the simple life at sea, providing that I could take my wife.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Our foreign minister made the statement, 'we are behind UK in this matter'.
But we are also behind Donald when he meets Rocket Man, but of course there is an erection in Russia soon for a new president.
So he is making himself look tough to enhance his chance of winning the one man erection.

All govs have their spies, counter spies and those who spy on the public in general.
Big brother watches every move you make, in UK one CCTV camera for every 20 citizens.
Which makes one wonder why no one saw the guy who doctored the food.
But of course it may well have malfunctioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!