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The Boeing Hotel

  • John Murnane
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

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But then you get somewhere like, Kosovo,

where even before you can set up,

a tented accommodation, as we had

if you're first in or in for a short

It's, it's not even bare base

So we lived on the aircraft for some time.

again, this place, this affection piece,

Not only has it been where you have flown

it's also been your hotel, nicknamed

and when we were first in Kosovo,

we stayed on the aircraft for

maybe the first week or two while

inch by three inch mirror on the ramp

the meals together, I remember

Maybe it was a forward operating base,

Kosovan farmer's field somewhere

This is a good tactical position.

We'll, we'll we'll make a, we'll hunker

and so we went in there.

It was, it was on the aircraft and living

as I said that daily routine

is what you make or it, it’s like camping without a tent,

but with a sort of 60ft

And that. That's fun.

I was very young on the force

I had only been obviously

but you very quickly

what the tricks are,

her, great aircraft, but a bit leaky,

not designed for people to sleep in it

so where the transmissions are and where,

they actually have the right to sit

if you like, where the engines going, you

So if you happen to,

for example,

then you wake up with a wet sleeping bag

And the old and bold say ah, told you

So my, my place tended to be sort of, up

not so near that the rain could blow in it

not so bad that you get leaked on by

And you just had to work out and say

You just worked out

I slept far better on the aircraft

or the the barracks that we eventually

far better on the aircraft.

This is really comfy.

but yeah, I wouldn't want to do it

Probably got a bad back now as a result.

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