Status Updates From Desert Fire: The Diary of a...

“Soldiers are by nature creatures of caution and their experience in the Army teaches them to play safe and not to fool with things they don’t understand. A soldier who believes he has been attacked by gas, having got his respirator on, is inclined to keep it on. The sight of an officer, regardless of seniority, with his respirator off does not impress, indeed it tends only to confirm his worst suspicions “

Re: Joint Services Movements Staff:”This is home for the rejects, the socially disadvantaged and the psychopaths of the three services. Only here is the power to move, feed, transport and accommodate a division’s worth of troops vested in the hands of a RAF Corporal. Only here will you hear a Royal Navy Petty Officer address an Army Brigadier as “Luv”.