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28 Mar 10 – Part 1: Farewell Wifey After only just marrying the man who had volunteered to go on his ‘Gap year’, meaning a third year on FTRS volunteering for Afghanistan, I knew the nutter I was marrying well, but didn’t fully comprehend the emotional stress to follow, during and after. I remember the
It seems that to be considered a player in international affairs just now you need to have, and be prepared to use against innocents, chemical weapons. These, let us not forget, are weapons of mass destruction. So the decision to go ahead and join the USA and France in coalition to take punitive action against
Sunday 28 Mar 2010 Op Rescue Wardy begins at High Wycombe train station at 1515. Wardy has had a spat with his girlfriend and needs a lift back to Wimbish. This is closely followed by a trip to the Live and Let Live for send-off drinks with Sherlock and a farewell dinner at Mum’s. We
Fads come and go, if they did not, they would not be fads. Some years ago, Japanese business theories were all the rage, Kaizen continuous improvement was one. Another popular practice that shiny MBA graduates brought in to organisations was Just In Time manufacturing – imported directly from Toyota. This involves carrying minimal stock, to
We rise early at 0400, again! Sort out our kit, weapons checks, grab body armour and we tab back down to the murder wall. Then we push out into the fields beyond, where we had our first contacts of the tour. It is still early, the kind of murky pre-dawn almost ethereal light and
