Old Soldier Meets Young Soldier | The Gap

we deployed in Iraq to rock in 2006 we then deployed to Kosovo from there we then deployed to Afghanistan well you've been through quite a lot so um yeah hello young man how are you [Music] so then you okay no it's a bad you sell on the spot I'm their spot isn't it like which war did you fight him Second World War Moira teller was just heard for tiller and there was 12 of us and we took part in the North African campaign and then we went on to the invasion for two years in them days with a different war yes yeah to go where you were sent and some lights went to North Africa and went right through never got home till way after d-day the other wars that followed this it's an entirely different war than what ours was okay I think go through generations doesn't it it goes from one wall to another it's frightening to see what happens to these modern wars you're fighting an enemy you do not know where he is for a stack like in our war as long as you were going forward you were going the right way but you get in Afghanistan and that he he can come up behind you and you don't know he's here and from my way of thinking it I wouldn't like to forth in that war I'll be honest with you that's where the to change because I wouldn't like to fight in your walk because in my eyes being on a ship it's probably safer on this ship I can't swim so it you can't swim put your sailor and he never taught me but where would you swim to have you heard on wait for him all don't matter whether you could swim or not after training I got a battalion and then we deployed to Belize we went for six weeks in the jungle and training and that was pre training for Iraq we deployed in Iraq to rock in 2006 year 2006 that was a six-month tour turn into a seven-month tour and we were deployed to Saddam's palace and bars yourself and where we we patrolled the stray cops after there we come back I went on to do my promotion and we then deployed to Kosovo that was peacekeeping and then from there we then deployed to Afghanistan it's a headaches had so completely different operations altogether from armored force well you've been through quite a lot on them yeah what are your feelings towards the enemy now in comparison to at the time that's a good man at the time I didn't it's it's weird because I'm gonna probably stand out there is I didn't have any hate for them I believe that we were fighting in someone else's country and they were defending it in a way but I think that's one of the reasons why I left because I am I didn't believe in it in the end I think I think I thought that hard and I was fighting an enemy so much that I was I was equal to them if so I'm gonna fight if someone can get the number of men in front of me and fight me and my men to the extreme that they were fighting us then hats off to them myself well we fought the Germans to win the war that's what was bred into you and it took me until about 1970 before I could really you know see me way clear I have nothing against him now it took me all that time to realize they were the same as those doing what they had to do have you ever fired a weapon yes on the landing craft I was an anti-aircraft corner we had six Orlick ins and a 12-pounder on her so where I fired that many times suitable it's a different thing it's not like firing a rifle no it's like a soldier has to rely on a rifle doesn't he oh yeah I rely on me antiaircraft gun whenever you're in imminent danger you're called to action stations and if they planes come out here then you have to fight back and on the orluk and you had a shield which you you look through the gap so to speak it always gave me that feeling that he couldn't it yeah but which was silly we're thinking but it gave me a better feeling of comfort if you know what I mean see we've also just rifles we're just well rifles and and we had their GP mgs which was seven sixty Belfast which that most of them would you be lost without your right audio gone one yeah on their Afghan either sections while a section of a large some very very good lads as well we would get in three sixty ambushes so would be basically we'd get hit by an ie D so you'd have someone from the front right left they're coming from the top of the compounds and they basically just spraying it with rapid fire with seven six two once you got into the firefight you can never tell what was going to happen but you always knew it's gonna be like a well-oiled machine the way your SOPs kick into place the way you know your lads would did is new because the march on your des beans you knew exactly what we're doing how do you think soldiers are viewed in society it all depends are the media portrays us remember going back when we come back from Iraq we landed in seaside and we had groups of people that weren't happy that we were there and that and they were British people because the media portrayed us as killers as murderers flipping the coin when we come back from Afghan we were portrayed as heroes so the whole country rejoiced to go I'll save our heroes obviously your generation you were well I think the war did lasted so long with our that they were glad to see the people back home and I think most soldiers and sailors any serviceman just looked upon they they say thank you to them forgetting their freedom in one way they were glad to see the war over I can understand the difference now different generation yeah there's different war well you find it they know when you're in a war zone and as you know you've got that constant stress above your ads of what's next what's next in your console on high alert a year constantly high rate irate it takes one person to look at you and you ready to fight straight away hence why we're meeting called when we when soldiers come back home so on Locksley the wrong way you're already in fight mode it's been twelve years I'm still in fight mode Nam I don't think I'll ever change I all ever change that if you fight in a war it's him or us so to speak and that's my way of thinking and so let it be when I was out there it was my lunch my legs are coming home no matter what I don't care my logical my own very left lost a member of your company it's a wonder one syllable of those at the same time because we've lost quite a lot from our grip from a battalion of our regiment I'll say I say I say regiment because is one RG j & c RG j today's attend the 10th anniversary for a lot we lost call their poor McAleese he was my square we you know we we love we lost him 10 years today we lost we've lost quite a lot yeah I've been golly I think I'll leave it there like don't to go to too much into it like have you ever suffered a serious injury I've only had a backlash from the gun which sometimes written or again half and it gets hot thing sort of blows and you get a flash it's a nothing case serious yeah part of my a few broken like sprains and broken wrists and stuff like that and major one would be probably mental mentally I know this is this is you know it's a massive epidemic that's going through the military at the moment for veterans I'm just all servant is mental health past 13 years I've really suffered they really really suffered but I've sort of like butter that backwards buttered it backwards and kept moving forward I mean it was get moving forward and I think with me age now again I've got the age where it's like well I've got my family and all that I've got to stay straight you're mean but it does creeps back a lot it does treat my car I figure out for me daughter is kicking up the ask why I was like you mean but I think if the dead somebody still be like that you mean it's but I know a lot of odd Salah girls love a lot a lot of soldiers are suffering do you miss the forces well that's a good question now I don't think I missed it I was away about four and a half years I served and I was glad to get out and no that's my answer to that I don't about yourself no a lot of lots dare issue of it and you say oh yeah I missed the army or we should go back I think what is is is regiments that's the regimented you know such a routine where that is your life and you do that for three to seven to twenty two years I left and it was like I'm sure earlier but it's because it was you're known it's I don't miss it I miss the lads of comradery yeah I miss that's about the only thing you miss yeah yeah although me wrong I miss firefights believe it or not I miss get into firefights I miss a weapon handling I miss teaching it but I can be replaced by anything I mean if you find them another passion or another loving life you would place like with like your main is there anything you regret about your service really yeah through that well through the years I am proud to have been a part of it it took all my youth if I hadn't have been there I'd have missed quite a lot and no I don't regret it one hate it I don't think I regret it because it's like what I said what it's what I've gained from it I mean mentally it's been mentally draining once I've got out but at the same time it's strengthening at the same time so where something suffering someone else is strengthening you mean so I'm becoming better what you want to tell your story from my point of view it may be there help the younger generation they don't know about your war I don't know about my war and they comment on this sort of thing people watch it and they realize it's part of history I would think so I hope so all of me it's like for 10 years after get out I say software that I went to the dark place and I kept it to myself and when every time someone mentioned the military or my dad switch off and walk away they want to know I'm still a little bit like that now but since I've thought since this year I've started a new project I've been talking about my career and my story my mental health for my by fight and struggle and all that carry on it's it's actually helping me it's helped me talking about it more importantly to Kabu someone starting a dark room right now wasn't left the house at sea weeks and their scroll on the phone and they come up they come across a large Bible they watch didn't listen to this listen to me and you and they go I've been for that I've seen this or that's worse than me lost not as worse than me and if he stand up and they walk out the front door and they give it a go then we saved one and it's worth it so that that's why I talk about my story and I want but I wouldn't have known your story if I hadn't have listened to it here would I I've learnt a lot from you and I hope our little talk today has helped in that way well not just the younger generation I think the oldest as well as me like if anyone makes me thanks to me yes [Music] you

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Length: 12min 49sec (769 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 10 2019

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