guys its closing 17/7 next year 2014 -time is cool.
spanish si as your a real brit you can use my home address for the petition if you wish -i cant see any reason why not -pmail me and ill pass you my addy- thanks for everyone this far. ive got it up on facebook open groups to various ships and establishments i served with back in the 80's.
some friends with links to many people will pass the word about- it needs a touch of viral to really move quickly especially while the topic is hot with the programme only aired the other nite-ive seen pts- when galatea went into refit in guz back in 80's. one of the lads came back to the dockyard. we were in dry dock- i was doing qm on gangway. saw a sailor stand on edge of dock- tom daley stance and did a perfect ten off the top straight down onto the concrete bottom -instant death. one way to end it- obviously sad it ever came to that. mad ronnie from galatea committed suicide soon after he left. something troubled him to the point of.... it wasnt just galatea either - the first gulf i lived in plymouth on leave-top flat had army guy- rowd with misses friday nite- heard 3 pop pops, she was in hallway sobbing and legged it out of flats. 6am i stood by back door having a smoke and saw cops on street corners pointing guns- i was beckoned out-id myself, told to evacuate in my skimpies. refused as misses was sparko- he said armed man upstairs with guns and grenades (bought back from gulf)-ordered me to go towards him- told him to wait, went in and got the misses up, calmly got her out. front cordon was stupid-within line of sight of his top floor window . I got the chiefy to push cordon back further and told them i heard what was 3 shots quick succession during night-sounded like gunfire.
police entered property en mass in full gear. the guy was already dead from gunshot wounds as he had weapon on repeat first shot fired 2 more as arm stayed on trigger. he had also booby trapped a grenade or two- bomb disposal rn guys took sand from garden and took the grenade out and disposed off.
they were both stressed out servicemen having done the biz-sadly their lives were cut short -this was back in 91-nothing was done to enquire why? causation? now its at much worse levels with lads coming back from afghanistan and other theatres -ok to follow health checks for current serving, surely the military or even nhs should be following up all ex servicemen that toured regardless of how long-the losses are far too many and far too many are also ending up in prison with stress related/drink/drug/ptss- would save government money in long run if they kept the lads and lasses sound and sane mentally- enable them to integrate and function better within society and lead a more normal life, knowing there is support 24/7 for them.
just a couple of thoughts -corbs
thanks for the efforts so far guys n girls
