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From the Cold War to the War on Terror - The Personal Story of an RAF Engineer from Nuclear Weapons to Bomb Disposal (Hardcover)
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From the Cold War to the War on Terror - The Personal Story of an RAF Engineer from Nuclear Weapons to Bomb Disposal (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
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Michael Haygarth left home a few weeks before his seventeenth
birthday to join the Royal Air Force as a Weapons Technician. At
the time, everything seemed very normal and routine, but his
thirty-eight-year career turned out to be anything but. From
training with other nations all over the world; fast roping out of
helicopters with US Army Rangers; being driven around Basra in the
back of a beaten-up taxi wearing civilian clothes with a 9mm pistol
stuck in his waistband; to convoying at speed around Baghdad with
the United States Army looking for unexploded bombs. All of these
events were extraordinary and way beyond the usual experiences of
an RAF Engineer. In the early years of his career, Michael was a
member of a Buccaneer Nuclear Weapon Loading Team stationed in RAF
Germany at the height of the Cold War. He recalls being frequently
woken by sirens in the early hours of the morning, rushing to get
to work wondering if it was yet another practice or the start of
the unimaginable nuclear Armageddon. After further tours in the UK,
Germany and Italy, and having passed his Bomb Disposal courses and
been commissioned, Michael was sent to the Falkland Islands. He
also served in Kosovo as part of a huge multi-national force tasked
with clearing thousands of bombs and cluster munitions, as well as
working with the International Crimes Tribunal to clear numerous
mass graves. He was responsible for tasking and controlling all UK
Bomb Disposal operations in and around Pristina. Michael's next
operational tour was to Iraq where he was responsible for the
policy and plans for all Bomb Disposal operations carried out by
the UK armed forces and for helping the US Army to establish a
civilian contract team to carry out bulk disposal of explosives and
munitions in Southern Iraq. After promotion to Squadron Leader, he
worked in the MoD and then took charge of the RAF's only Bomb
Disposal Squadron as it withdrew from Iraq and was instrumental in
reshaping and refocusing the squadron to carry out operations in
Afghanistan alongside the Army. His final role, in what was a truly
exceptional career, was in charge of the RAF's only expeditionary
Engineering Squadron as it worked through the busiest period in its
history during the UK forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan and the
escalation of events in support of operations in the Baltic states
and Syria.
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