But after my training, which I did
six months.
And I actually.
Was posted to Northern Ireland.
So that's how we ended up
And that was life changing
because you had to grow quickly.
Kind of like this when you go up
when they sort of molly coddle you today
You just got a ticket.
You found your train went down the tube
taxi, whatever
So we got off Belfast.
And there was a soldier in every corner.
Myself and my mate,
and to learn that it was like
we didn't know about it.
So it was quite something
lying down, rifle ready, you know?
And then we had to walk right
to get the train
just outside Londonderry.
That's why we posted this place
And that's where we ended up.
That was.
Something else,
And in that time, so much happened,
you know, when?
You hear of people
So we were very restricted in terms
and at no time could you leave on your own
always with somebody else,
And going outside to places
like Londonderry and places like Coleraine.
Portrush
is fantastic,
well, very amenable.
And by that, I mean, they would look at me
as a black young man and they would say,
And I would say, well,
you being in the military,
we have no fight with you, they would say.
It's the British
to fight with, so, you know, and
so the actual reception to myself
very good and to the point where
this is the only time this has happened.
I went to a chip shop outside of camp and
and they called me to the front
Now you know that it's a small thing,
and you're away from home
you and that happens, it sort of stays,
And it just showed you
their attitude towards myself, you know?
But Northern Ireland for a year
you had to grow up
conflict, shall we say, civil unrest.
And you didn't know who the enemy was.
invisible
