Al Amarah Football Stadium, Iraq
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@tomo3666 yeh i recall hearing of it, another landrover misfortune.......if only they'd caught on and sent out warriors n charlies only we'd of lost a lot less than we did
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@scatmav We lost 3 lads mate, all in one explosion. Pte Hewitt, Pte Spicer, and Lft Shearer. RIP to every single one of them.
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@scatmav I remember that, the Para's and the Scotts took over us, we nearly killed a Para Capt when we held a set of mortar hatches open with road wheels cuz the door clips were broke! He was on an induction patrol when we went over a massive bump in the road, the road wheel went flying in to the back of the warrior and just missed him! We were of course, all pissing ourself's!
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@tomo3666 yeh thats the one, cos we met them as they ended the tour and they just couldnt believe they lost 2 guys within 2 weeks of being on tour, their names were Lee Ellis and Richie holmes, RIP lads
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@chrissyk5756 which part of livingston mate who were you with?
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i lived in this bitch for almost half of my deployment in 08-09.... thats wild to see it like that... we got bunkers all around the top row now... thats fuking crazy
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Guys, how are you doin!!
Im Chris from Livingston....was in Amarah based at the stadium on OPTelic 2, I spent a lot of time with the famous Badger, he's a good lad!
Was really friendly with Richie Robertson.....great video, brings back a lot of memories but what a total fu*kin sh*thole!!
Chris
ye. june to oct 03. op telic 2. attached to KOSB. the fella sitting down is badger from orkney isles.
andybrov 2 years ago
that's right, I was up in Orkney last week to visit Budgie, Badger's mate who was also attached to us. Who were you with?
Bally0120 2 years ago
II. I was Known as Killer or munro.neither budgeie or badger were in my callsighn. I can hardly remember. Just attached to KOSB from Budge and Badgers own TA unit.
andybrov 2 years ago
Hi Killer, I remember you well. From Inverness. Hope you're well mate. Drop me an e-mail through youtube if you want mate
Bally0120 2 years ago
I remember it well, worst place in Al Amarah apart from the REDS (pink palace, cimic house) Well its all a dump really
tomo3666 4 years ago
we took over from 3 Para at the stadium just at the end of the war. The accommodation was full of rubble and broken glass. A friend asked a Para "why didn't you clean all this up" and the Para replied "we're here to kill, not to clean". We didn't have an answer to that!
Bally0120 4 years ago