Yeah, it was a flying station.
So lots of activity,
I was on a rapier squadron.
So it's short range air
Actually it was actually paid
of war we'd go to their bases
Yeah, it was interesting.
They're very procedural.
There's a lot of drills so that there's,
You,
you keep everything maintained and ready
you load up the vehicles in a particular
you convoy them to wherever you're going
then you set them up and it's, it's a,
setting up the rapid cabin.
There's lots of wires everywhere,
there's lots of things to
find, you have to obviously sight
that it has radar coverage and it can
if they come near you.
And then you go into a kind of routine of
I mean, ready to fire.
Whereas on a field squadron there's a lot
because, you know, the sort of parameters
I think that's not a very
But.
So yeah, it was a good
So I had four fire units in my flight,
so that would have been sort of 24 troops
and a flight sergeant and me.
And it was a good job.
We went to a lot of places,
to the Hebrides, live firing.
We did exercises in God awful parts
getting everything stuck in the mud.
So I went to America for Red Flags,
So it was a great first tour actually.
Essentially
you've got a whole load of the fire units,
the actual missile kits and their radars
deployed spread out around an airfield.
But of course you have to coordinate
on on the airfield itself.
With friendly aircraft taking off,
intelligence or latest, you know,
you can watch what might be coming
if as and when you, you know,
you just need to make sure that the fire
and they're all free
And you.
You just really.
It's.
It's.
I wouldn't say it's a.
It's.
It's long, long, long hours of nothing
of complete madness and excitement.
It's fun.
