Hi all, I spent a few different contracts in Oman, at Salalah and Seeb, with detachments to Khasab. With regard to the Tarqah shootings, I was due out that night on leave, so missed most of the aftermath, the press were waiting at Heathrow when the plane arrived, but I said nowt. The guy who went in the water was also in Riyadh ’72/73 on the strikies I think. He was knocked down by a police landrover there and hurt his arm quite badly, he did manage to get compo though, I was knocked over by a water bowser near the base, got nowt:-(
I was at Salalah while the ‘war’ was on ’74, working on the strikies, had great fun arming them up, we had a visit from a camera crew and some big brass, I was just hanging a 500lb bomb and he said “how long have you been an armourer?” I looked at my watch and said “about five minutes” at which point he went quite pale and left! (I was A&E). I was there on and off from ’74 – ’90, then a spell after being laid off, from ’96-98.
Have lots of photo’s from the times which I am currently scanning to HDD. Names from Salalah, Ken Fisher, Chris Moseley, Bryn Jones, Brian Poyser,and lots more faces I see but names escape (senior troubles!) Oh! and I got my Dhofar peace medal, or whatever it was called.
Salalah airbase from the air Middle ’70’s or later.
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