Today its 14 years to the day that i shipped out to the gulf as a young inexperienced 19 year old driver/soldier so i thought id treat you all to a few of my war pictures 
This pic is of my 1st truck just after it came of the boat and we went out into the desert as you can see it arrived green and we were given 4 5 litre tins of desert cam paint and a couple of brushes every time we stopped we’d jump out and paint a panel 
till it was the right colour
These few pics are of me and my 2nd truck a Bedford TM 14 tonne 6X6
This next one is a few of the lads out of my troop
Our 1st main job when we got out there was to run supplies from the port at al jubial to an FMA about 20 kliks away the stuff we was carrying then was mainly clothing and rations
After a boring week of doing that we were then told as we wernt part of an actual battalion we would be running free from the Al Jubial Fma right up to the front carrying ammo then turn round and run back empty and do the same again until told otherwise
A couple of pics loaded up with various artillary shells and some mlrs rockets
in the picture above i had to block the road off to stop people running over a load of shells that had fallen of the back of one of the trucks
After the initial fighting was over we were put up in a holding camp waiting for our next job But i was given the job of postman taking all the BFPO freebie parcels upto Kuwait, So a container was lobbed on the back of my motor and i was given directions and told see you in about 3 days basicly what i had to do was go down the forces post office in jubial load up with parcels then disappear into the desert and hand out sacks of goodies to all the british regiments i found
Now as a young lad i was frightened to death at this point but once i’d done it once and got back safely everything was ok and the 2nd time round i started to relax and enjoy it and thats when the fun started with our little excursions
these two pics where from the little town of Al Khafji which is on the border os saudi and kuwait
The town was like a ghost town as some of the iraqis had tried to take it but the king of saudi apperantly said to the brits stop them so in good old fashioned british style they went in and blew the crap out of it
Then we was up on the Basra rd known as death valley and that was a very eerie place to be with death and destruction everywhere
Passing through the oil fields
The oil fields were an amazing place one minute your driving along in daylight the next its pitch black with dense smoke
We decided to take a little trip into the oil fields and discovered an abandoned iraqi unit heres one of the underground bunkers
From there we went up to Kuwait airport but not before a trip through the deserted street of Kuwait city we had an â– â– â– â– â– â– through the worst part of the city by a Kuwaiti policeman as the locals used to try and rob us, they used to link arms across the road to try and stop us so as we approached them we fired a couple of warnig shots of to scatter them and just keep driving through then once passed them you could here the bullets thudding on the container doors as they started shooting at us and this Kuwaiti copper was taking pot shots at them
Once in the city it was quite safe to walk around and go where we wanted so a bit of sight seeing was in order
A rolls royce bentley dealers completely gutted by looters
outside the british embassy in kuwait
Me outside the Sheraton Hotel in the city
From there it was upto the Airport for our last drop and stay the night anyone remember that BA plane that was sent out to collect the freed hostages well this is why it didnt come back
One of the maddest things i saw out there was some french soldiers at the airport they had gotten hold of this brand new Masaratti sports car and they where ragging it stupid up and down the airport then when they got bored with it they shot the crap out of it
Well there you have it my experiance from 14 years ago
Simon
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