Kathy, I was unsure how that message would have been taken on this site. Thank you.

This may sound like a joke and indeed we have laughed about it on many occasions since, but it is infact a true story and at the time I didn't think it was funny at all, what do you think... On a large exercise in Germany involving thousands of troops I had been discreetly informed that an RSM (I think that would be SMA in your ...

In memory of nine soldiers from 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusileers who on 26th February 1991 while advancing through the Kuwaiti desert in their Warriors (like a Bradley) were attacked by two US A10 Tankbusters, Fusileer Conrad Cole was among the dead, at 17 years old he was the youngest British soldier in theatre. It's ...

I hope you don't mind but I've turned this one around for reasons that I hope will become obvious. Whenever we were deployed somewhere it was always difficult saying goodbye to the wife & kids, but it was in many ways more difficult for them because they had to carry on as normal, not knowing when they would see the one ...

Yes indeed Danielle, the lanes around the Chase are quite narrow and speeding drivers are constant hazard. As are deer, the council have stopped putting salt on the roads in winter because the deer stand in the road and lick it off causing inevitable accidents, hundreds of deer were being killed so now the roads around the Chase are salt ...

Have I done this correctly? probably not ho hum...anyhoo, here goes... My name is Andrew from Staffordshire England. I joined the army staight from school in the mid 1970's, and left mid 1990's. During Gulf 1 we came under the command of the US 7th Corps, I'm told this was the first time since WW2 ...

Hello all, I just thought I'd like to say that the parcels you send to your troops are very welcome and gratefully received (stating the obvious I suppose) During Gulf 1 as soon as the ground war finished we started to receive parcels from well wishers back home in England. I received a small parcel from a family who had ...

Remembrance day fast approaches, it is for many a sad and thought provoking time. With the memories of people & places come the inevitable tears. Some may think the memories fade with time, but they don't. Forgive me this indulgence, this poem is particularly poignant.   The Soldier stood and faced God, Which must always come ...

Hello Danielle, it really is a small world, I live twenty minutes away from Litchfield, on the edge of Cannock Chase which I'm sure your husband will know of. I spent some time in Canada (Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Alberta) and while there we often went south to Montana or Washington for weekends. It was difficult for us ...

Let me tell you guys, as an Englishman I have nothing but respect for American troops. I was not surprised when I saw young men from the USMC and realised they were kids, just like us.  You guys have taken some serious casualties over the past few years and I feel for the guys on the ground, unless you've been there you wont know ...