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    PARACHUTE DELIVERY RECORD RAF

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    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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    Salisbury Plain...bet you've gathered your equipment up there a couple times?
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    You better believe it..............
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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    Nice variance here from Canadianicon Forces in the early fifties, chucking working dogs out of a DC3, which I came across whilst writing my book BING - The Parachuting Dog during WW2:

    Paratroop Dogs Have Rough Landing | Military.com
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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    A good friend of mine ran a dog through both theaters of this last conflagration, he's done his parachute regt time too but said he hadn't jumped his dog. It never came up for him.
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    HALO trained now a lot of the Regiment dogs...............skies the limit it would appear
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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