We had/dug a sleeping area, with a higher floor level than the stand-in trench. A NBC blanket/poncho was streched over this supported by paracord strung between pegs (there was a particular way to string the cord but I can't remember how) and earth was piled on top then the sods so the enemy couldn't see the excavations. This was supposed to stop a chieftain tank from squashing the two or three occupants if it ran over the trench.( From memory the trench wasn't wider than 18")
We saw tanks in the distance on one excersise (Clam Furey, supposed to have been the biggest NATO excersise since WW2, helicopter deployments of troops from Luneberg Heath) in Germany on the plain below our position but I was given a boll*king for standing up to watch them and after that I kept my head down.
We fired a considerable amount of GPMG rounds and supposedly drove off the 'ememy'. Our speciality was ambushes. All cold war stuff in 1976 to '79.
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We saw tanks in the distance on one excersise (Clam Furey, supposed to have been the biggest NATO excersise since WW2, helicopter deployments of troops from Luneberg Heath) in Germany on the plain below our position but I was given a boll*king for standing up to watch them and after that I kept my head down.
We fired a considerable amount of GPMG rounds and supposedly drove off the 'ememy'. Our speciality was ambushes. All cold war stuff in 1976 to '79.
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