Musings of a Real Tank Commander – Part 25 Medals, Mark Urban and the Man from Oz NONE OF US were particularly enamoured with what little we saw of Saudi social life. We had expected a male oriented society for sure, but Stuart Crawford January 29, 2021
Musings of a REAL tank commander – Part 24 Patriot games in Kuwait DID somebody say there’s a war on? Back at the Permanent Joint HQ in the UK (our superior HQ), they were beginning to get a bit Stuart Crawford January 15, 2021
Musings of a Real Tank Commander – Part 23 Caught in the SCUD in Riyadh THE AIR WAR had started. We rapidly became swamped with information and statistics – so many radars destroyed there, so many aircraft hit by small Stuart Crawford December 17, 2020
Musings of a REAL Tank Commander – Part 22 Noddy suits, a shock of pink, and gravy trains AND SO 1991 ARRIVED and found all of us at Headquarters British Forces Middle East (HQBFME) in reasonably good spirits. By now we realised that Stuart Crawford December 1, 2020