Category Archives for Iraq

My blog from when i went to Iraq on op Telic 7 in 2005. This was a TA deployment with the West Midlands Regiment, E coy Light Infantry.

Arrival to an emotional point..

As life passed me by and I was eventually too old to actually rejoin the Army the realisation I had missed out hit me. I had passed up on a life time goal the one thing I have ever truly wanted to achieve. That was always in the back of my mind year upon year […]

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Going To War….

It would be strange for me to say it’s a difficult thing to imagine, as all my life since I could string a thought together of my own and actually understand what I watched on TV as a very young boy I’ve been imagining it. Although with age and the inevitable awareness of the real […]

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