So I went to work in the MT section
I built a bicycle out a broken bicycle,
put bicycle together,
And after about two months,
I spoke to my sergeant,
and I said, this is silly.
You know, I'm
one of your best telegraphists.
I'm very, very good at my job.
You know, I was about to be promoted.
It's a waste.
And so he spoke to the flight lieutenant
go back to working in the ComCen
With all the top secret information, etc.,
because I'd lost my security clearance.
So, I went back to working in the ComCen.
I actually did work in the crypto room
there were people who couldn't,
Well, anyway,
so kind of life went back to
sort of normal, except, of course,
I did get...
I’ll tell you about that in a minute.
But I didn't have any friends,
I mean, I could talk to people.
It wasn't like nobody spoke to me
nobody wanted to really associate with me.
So that was very hard.
But I still had a relationship
which was the naval base in Gibraltar
and somebody saw me
and marched me across the whole facility.
And,
arrested me, charged me.
And then I said I wouldn't
unless the senior WRAF officer
And she came.
She didn't speak to me and they let me go.
They cautioned me and said that if I were
I would be arrested and put in cells.
So yes.
But as I say,
I kind of half convinced myself
You know, I got into this kind of,
almost euphoria
And then in the January
1st of all, I was called for,
A medical
to see the the senior medical officer
who offered me psychiatric treatment,
RAF Wraghton
so that they could cure me.
So I said,
if I go for this treatment RAF Wraughton
And he said, no.
And I said, well, no, but
to stay in the RAF
then the next thing that
happened was I was called into the station
Then the station commander told me
It been passed to the Air Commodore
WRAF, who had agreed
Services no longer required.
And I was a dirty deviant
a minute longer
and prepare to be repatriated
full discharge.
And then after that
I had an admin interview.
I think it was a flight lieutenant
who went through
so I wouldn't get any resettlement
Been in the RAF for ten years.
So this is 1986, January 1986.
So I was entitled to resettlement courses
into civilian life.
I was entitled to some money
once I left the RAF to get me back
I wasn't entitled now to any of that.
I wasn't going to get anything
and I might get
a bit of a pension,
So that was all I would get.
And that,
I mean, it was quite a long meeting.
I don't remember all of it,
things like,
You're a liar.
You’re a disgrace to the uniform.
