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An SWer is giving me grief about being disrespectful to King Chaz as a ex military person. So let’s be clear:

I didnt join the RAF because I get a chub on thinking of queen and country, I did it because it gave me an engineering career inaccessible to me on civvie street.

And why the RAF? Well for one - in the army everyone gets shot at, in the navy if the boat sinks everyone dies, but in the airforce only the officers and aircrew get shot at - I have two service medals for conflict zones, Op Telic and Op Shader, and the closest I came to combat was falling off a cliff on a donkey, and getting into a scrap with a yank who tried to confiscate our beer.

While I enjoyed my time serving, made many good friends and had loads of experiences so awesome that being a civilian feels totally shit, I doesn’t mean I give a tart’s furry cup about what goes on in Buckingham palace - because I’m sure as shit they’ve never given me or anyone I know a single thought. And I don’t see a problem with that.

That is all. Resume your social medianess.
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Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Wait, go back to that Donkey bit. That sounds like a story worth hearing about.
WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
@Thevy29 To this day I don’t know what happened, I was hung over and had a touch of sun stroke, trying to get to this village where a truck was suppose to take us back to Akrotiri. It was fine and then it made a funny noise and broke into a run. Straight off a fucking cliff. I managed to stop myself going all the way off, but the donkey just rolled and rolled out of sight.

I sprained my wrist and messed up my face and back. Got back to the village, and who was there? The fucking donkey! I still have more questions than answers about the whole experience.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
@WintaTheAngle That Donkey ditched you 🤣
WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
@Thevy29 Yeah! He was acting all nonchalant like “Alright mate, I heard you had a bit of a fall. Sounds nasty.”
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
@WintaTheAngle That's a great story, thanks for sharing.