thanks for the clarifcation phil, I thought you were being funny, as radders said, you join up thinking "it'll never happen to me". but I suppose in the long run thats what we are here to do , I went to basrah in may last year supporting the hercs , and got mortar attackd 3 times,one of which landed 200 meteres from where we were standing , which sort of brings home the fact that people really are TRYING HARD to kill you ,and that was in a "quiet" area. Its fucked up really as our troops in the army/navy/RAF get attacked EVERY DAY without fail, my mate has just come back from afgahnistan, which everyone has forgotten about, and they were being attacked all the time, 11 times in one day was the peak

thanks for everyones kind words, I will print the thread off and put it up at work.