Old Soldier Meets Young Soldier | The Gap | @LADbible

We deployed to Iraq to rock in 2006, then we deployed to Kosovo and from there we then deployed to Afghanistan. Well, you've been through a lot, so, yeah, hello,

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man, how are you? So, okay, no, it's bad. I am his place, isn't it what war you fought with him? Second World War Moira Teller was only heard at the helm and there were 12 of us and we participated in the North African campaign and then moved on to the invasion. for two years in those days with a different war, yes, go where they sent you and some lights went to North Africa and went through, they never came home until long after D-day, the other wars that followed this one is a war completely different from Ours was good, I think it goes through generations, doesn't it?

It goes from one wall to another. It's terrifying to see what happens with these modern wars. You are fighting an enemy and you don't know where it is because of a pile like in our war. As you were moving forward, you were on the right path, but you get to Afghanistan and he can come after you and you don't know he's here and the way I think about it, I wouldn't want to move forward. that war I'll be honest with you that's where to change because I wouldn't want to fight in your way because in my opinion being on a ship it's probably safer on this ship I can't swim so you can't swim put your sailor and he never taught, but where would you swim to be heard?

Wait for it, it doesn't matter if you knew how to swim or not after training. I got a battalion and then we deployed to Belize. We went for six weeks. in the jungle and training and that was pre-training for Iraq, we deployed to Iraq to rock in 2006, year 2006, which was a six-month tour that turned into a seven-month tour and they sent us to Saddam's palace and the bars and where we patrolled the street cops after we got back, I kept making my way up and then we deployed to Kosovo, which was peacekeeping, and then from there we deployed to Afghanistan, it's a pain in the ass, I had operations completely different from those of the armored force, well, you've already done it.

I've been through a lot with them, yeah, what are your feelings towards the enemy now compared to then? That's a good man at that time. I did not do it. It's weird because I'm probably going to stand out. I did not do it. I hate them, I think we were fighting in someone else's country and they were defending it in some way, but I think that's one of the reasons I left because in the end I didn't believe in it, I think. I think I thought about it a lot and I was fighting an enemy so much that he was equal to them.

If so, I will fight if anyone can get the number of men in front of me and fight me and my men to the extreme. they were fighting us, then I take my hat off to them, well we fought the Germans to win the war, that's what they drilled into you and it took me until about 1970 before I could really see myself very clearly. I have nothing against him. Now it was necessary. It took me all that time to realize that they were the same ones doing what they had to do. Have you ever shot a gun?

Yes, on the landing craft. I was an anti-aircraft corner. We had six Orlicks and a 12-pounder on her, so where? I shot that many times right, it's a different thing, it's not like shooting a rifle, no, it's like a

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has to depend on a rifle, isn't it? Oh yes, I rely on my anti-aircraft gun when you're in imminent danger, they call you. to the action stations and if the planes leave here then you have to counterattack and in the orluk and you had a shield that you look through the gap, so to speak, it always gave me that feeling that I couldn't, yes, but that It was silly what we thought but it gave me a better sense of comfort if you know what I mean we also have just rifles we are good rifles and we had their GP mg which was the seven sixty in Belfast which is most of them Would you be lost without the correct audio?

A yes, in your Afghan sections, while a section of a large group of very, very good guys we would also fall into three sixty ambushes, so we would basically be hit by an ie D. So you would have someone from the front, right, left, it comes from the top of the complexes and they basically just spray it with rapid fire with seven six two, once you get into the firefight, you can never know what was going to happen, but you always knew it would be like a machine well greased The way your SOPs get going the way you know your guys would is new because the march on your beans you knew exactly what we're doing.

What do you think

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s are like? seen in society, it all depends on whether the media portrays us, remember coming back when we came back from Iraq, we landed on the beach and we had groups of people who were not happy that we were there and that, and they were British because the media portrayed us as murderers like murderers tossing the coin when we returned from Afghanistan we were portrayed as heroes so the whole country was glad to go I will save our heroes obviously your generation you were fine I think the war lasted so long with us that they I was glad to see the people in home and I think most of the soldiers and sailors, any military man, just looked at them, thanked them and somehow forgot their freedom.

They were glad to see the war end. I can understand the difference now, another generation, yes. there's a different war, well you find it, they know when you're in a war zone and as you know you have that constant stress on top of your announcements of what's next, what's next on your console on high alert, a year with a constantly high, furious pace is needed. a person who looks at you and you're ready to fight right away, that's why we meet when the soldiers come home, so Locksley, the wrong way, you're already in fight mode, it's been twelve years, I'm still in the fight .

Nam mode, I don't think I'll ever change, we all will change sometime that if you fight a war it's him or us so to speak and that's my way of thinking so let it be, when I was there it was my lunch. my legs come home no matter what I don't care about my logic my own left lost a member of his company it's a wonder one of those syllables at the same time because we have lost quite a bit for the control of a battalion of our regiment I will say I say regiment because he is a RG j & c RG j today he attends the 10th anniversary no matter how much we lost he calls his poor McAleese he was my square we know we love him we lost him 10 years today we lost, we have lost enough, yes, I have been bad, I think So I'll leave it there, so as not to go into this too much, like if you ever suffered a serious injury.

I've only had a violent reaction. of the weapon that sometimes writes or again half and heats up, something like hits and you get a flash, it's not a serious case, yes, part of me, some fractures like sprains and broken wrists and things like that, and one of the most important ones would probably be mental. Mentally, I know this is this, you know, this is a massive epidemic that the military is going through right now for veterans. I am just a servant of mental health for the last 13 years. I have really suffered, they really suffered, but I in a way. like butter that was buttered upside down and kept moving forward.

I mean, it was just moving forward and I think at my age now I'm at the age again where it's like, well, I have my family and everything I have to do. Stand your ground, you're bad, but back up a lot, treat my car. I realize my daughter is kicking. Ask why she was like, you mean, but I think if someone dead is still like that, you mean she's but. I know that many rare Salah girls love a lot, many soldiers are suffering. Do you miss the forces? Well, that's a good question now. I don't think I missed it.

I was gone about four and a half years. I served and I was. I'm glad to get out and no, that's my answer to that, I don't make it about you, no, many dare to do it and you say, oh yeah, I missed the army or should we go back. I think that what they are are regiments, they are the regiments. you know that routine where that's your life and you do that for three, seven, twenty-two years. I left and before it was like I was safe, but it's because I was known, I don't miss it.

I miss the camaraderie guys, yeah, I miss, that's the only thing you miss, yeah, yeah, I'm wrong though. I miss gunfights, believe it or not. I miss getting into gunfights. I miss handling a gun. I miss teaching her, but I can be replaced by anything. If you find them another passion or another love life that you would place them as your primary is there anything you regret about your service really yes, through that, through the years, I'm proud to have been a part of this , it took me all my youth if I hadn't been there, I would have missed a lot and no, I don't regret it, I hate it, I don't think I regret it because it's like what I said, what I've gained from it.

I mean, mentally it's been mentally exhausting once I got out, but at the same time it's getting stronger at the same time, so when something suffers, someone else gets stronger, you mean, so I'm getting better. What you want to tell your story from my point of view. see it may be there to help the

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er generation they don't know about their war I don't know about my war and they comment on this kind of thing people see it and realize it's part of history I think so, I hope so Everything about me is like for 10 years after I came out I said software, I went to the dark place and kept it to myself and when every time someone mentions the military or my dad it shuts down and leaves, they want to know I'm Still a bit like that now, but since I thought about it, since this year I started a new project.

I've been talking about my career and my story, my mental health, my fight and struggle and everything that continues. It actually helped me, it helped me talk about it more importantly with Kabu. Someone who's starting a dark room right now didn't leave the house at sea for weeks and their scroll on the phone and when they approach, they find a large Bible that they looked at, no. listen to this listen to me and you and they leave I've been for that I've seen this or that is worse than me lost not as worse than me and if he gets up and they walk out the front door and give him a see then we save one and It's worth it, that's why I talk about my story and I want to, but I wouldn't have known your story if I hadn't heard it here.

I have learned a lot from you. and I hope that our little talk today has helped in that good way not only the younger generation I think the older ones also me like if someone does it for me thanks to me if you