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  • We're a very tight knit crew

    Sqdn Ldr Mathew Stannard

  • I look back now and think, how on earth could I have done it?

  • They’d post men with guns on the door to stop us leaving.

  • That night was the first time I went home and cried.

  • It prompted the need to offer mental or physical assistance to a lot of veterans who were trawling back very traumatic memories.

  • We’ve never been able to unite and discuss what we went through, ever.

  • We've nothing to be ashamed of anymore.

  • You can be charged for not saluting, or charged for not shooting.

  • Someone, somewhere felt that if you were of a gay persuasion you would be open to blackmail.

  • You were aware that you were policing it, that it was against the law.

  • You didn’t have a sweaty smell, you had a feul-ly smelly.