Berlin Bde British Units 77-80
Mark you our amazing with your research abililties. After reading your list of the British Batallions, all of these Unit names flooded my memory.
While we were there, the Russians invaded Afganistan and we were already showing our ID cards to go to the "bathroom" and after te Ruskies invaded, security tightened soo much that if you "changed your mind" you had to show your ID card again!
We seriously thought we were next in line for sure but thanks be to the Good lord and the steadfastness in standing up to the bullies, we with all the Allies, prevailed. I seriously didn't beleive that in my lifetime we would see the wall come down.
Mark is there a way to find outif any of these units had sand and green for their camoflaged Ferrets? I want very much to do that paint scheme however I also very much want it to be historically correct. I noticed thgat one of the units was the "Parachute Regiment." I was also a paratrooper with 156 jumps. I was the Jump School Chaplain at our parachute school at Ft Benniong, Ga. I then went to teh 82nd Abn Div at Ft Bragg NC. My father was the first US Army Glider Chaplain with the 88th GIR.
How can we find out if any of these units had the sand and green paint Scheme? Maybe I will just go ahead and do the Airborne Parachute Regiment. I also went over to England to Aldershot and jumped and got my British Wings. We jumped from an old "Barage Balloon" attached to a military truck with a winch with a cable that was attached to the ballon. It was some serious FUN! Then we went out and did some more jumps with the British Red Devils into a postage stamp sized soccor field.
I proudly wore my British wings on my class A Uniform along with my American Jump Wings. Those were good days.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help. Yo have made my day just reading the names of these Proud Brtish Units again.
Blessings, Knox
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