{"id":12985,"date":"2020-02-03T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12985"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:47:43","slug":"blogathon-03-20-almost-nostalgic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12985","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 03\/20: Almost nostalgic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About a million years ago, way before Pontius even went to flying school, I was a fresh-faced. naive, and very innocent young airman about to get sent out into the big wide world to defend Queen and Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/73Swinderby.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12986\" width=\"255\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/73Swinderby.jpg 338w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/73Swinderby-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/73Swinderby-103x150.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption>I&#8217;m the good-looking lad on the left (sorry Trev!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo above was taken at RAF Swinderby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, after a brief-ish stop at RAF Cosford, then SCCRAF Hendon, then DCC Whitehall, then a few weeks at the Royal Tournament, I found myself in the deepest, darkest depths of the Dutch\/German border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was stationed at RAF Bruggen where I learned to spend almost all of my time between the Combat Operations Centre and 14 Squadron Ops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I have forgotten none of this (for better or for worse), my memories were recently refreshed when I discovered an old MOD public information film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a means of documenting what routine life was like at RAF Bruggen, the film is pretty accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a description of what the sharp end of The Cold War was like, it&#8217;s very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, here it is. I&#8217;m not in it because, as you&#8217;ll hear, 14 Squadron were on detachment to RAF Decimomannu in Sardinia, where life was exactly as you&#8217;d imagine \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/embed\/?id=1060032947&amp;media_id=751050\" height=\"430\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a million years ago, way before Pontius even went to flying school, I was a fresh-faced. naive, and very innocent young airman about to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}