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MCU RAF Gibraltar, Sad, LGBT Experience, Joining up, Life on base, Friendship, Career, RAF Gibraltar, Angry, Training
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They can't give us what we want. We want to go back 40 years and have the career we should have had.
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Trigger Warning - This story contains details of sexual assault that some viewers may find distressing.
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All the questioning was predominantly focused on giving up other people.
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From the moment I joined, I loved the RAF.
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Another Wren had been arrested by the Royal Naval Police and had given us up to protect herself.
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I should have had support to help me get back to life on civvy street, but suddenly I wasn't entitled to any of it.
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Part of the double life was having to be homophobic to fit in with the homophobes.
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It was pretty boring, but you felt like you were doing something really important, really making a difference.
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