Now imagine it same temp, with a shirt/body armour/helmet/webbing/probably a radio and a gun with lots bullets!. I remember coming back stopping off in cyprus and thinking it was cold (it was mid june)
Right then boys, calm down the RAF is here (probably the jokes will start). Stationed at Brize....., on a deployable communications unit. Dont spend much time in blighty mind, off to Iraq on 27 feb