SOMETHING DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT

[LowSpeed]

The wrong man took the pills......

I certainly agree the guys playing the back door man is wrong but there's another way of looking at it. That way being the "back door man" didn't go to the church or the judge or the registry office and promise the poor fellow who overdosed a damn thing, someone else in this equation must've done so, even in these mangled weddings where they write their own vows and blab on about clouds, birds and the end of eternity there's typically a promise in there somewhere. She was the one who made it, if religious she made it before God. Now I believe all should be made to be kept but I can't help thinking that if you're having a church wedding and you make that promise before God it shouldn't be one of those things you momentarily forget that you made. if you're not religious and you made the promise before Thurman or Elbert or whomever it still should stick out in your mind especially when you're considering going out looking for someone new to throw one in you. I'm not saying back door mailman is off the hook but it's been my experience that the wife who goes out looking to get plugged by an other than husband type or the husband who goes out looking to plug someone other than wife type the person they wind up with is nothing more than a piece of equipment they're using to hurt their spouse the worst way possible. Sometimes they obtain that piece of equipment via false pretenses by lying to said piece of equipment, refer to vows and promises. So you know she / he will lie about anything. " We have an open marriage." It's a marriage of convenience, we're just roommates married for the tax, housing purposes. He/she is gay, we just married to keep his/her family off his/her back. He/she slips that ring off and is instantly single for the night, week or years if they're slick enough. I've heard each of these at one time or another, either on domestics or when I got stuck substituting bailiff in family court during divorce cases. I think a fellow in his position should do his due diligence to avoid such messes however some folks don't care and he may be one of those types. That's a dangerous risky way to live, people will kill you over their spouse and their dog. So I do agree he sure didn't help the situation but he never promised the deceased fellow a thing. She on the other hand made a promise that she didn't want to live up to and instead of just telling him she wanted to go get a different brand of hot dog for her bun she hurt him even worse than straight up leaving him would've. She had the option as to how bad she would hurt him and she chose the most vicious. SO I'd have to vote the other way when it came down to who got the special vitamins. I tried to insert a little humor in this because it is a sad situation but I do believe his situation should be placed at her feet inasmuch as she placed him in the position that he felt he no other option. She should feel lucky he didn't take on that final trip with him.

[Merle]

I certainly agree the guys playing the back door man is wrong but there's another way of looking at it. That way being the "back door man" didn't go to the church or the judge or the registry office and promise the poor fellow who overdosed a damn thing, someone else in this equation must've done so, even in these mangled weddings where they write their own vows and blab on about clouds, birds and the end of eternity there's typically a promise in there somewhere. She was the one who made it, if religious she made it before God. Now I believe all should be made to be kept but I can't help thinking that if you're having a church wedding and you make that promise before God it shouldn't be one of those things you momentarily forget that you made. if you're not religious and you made the promise before Thurman or Elbert or whomever it still should stick out in your mind especially when you're considering going out looking for someone new to throw one in you. I'm not saying back door mailman is off the hook but it's been my experience that the wife who goes out looking to get plugged by an other than husband type or the husband who goes out looking to plug someone other than wife type the person they wind up with is nothing more than a piece of equipment they're using to hurt their spouse the worst way possible. Sometimes they obtain that piece of equipment via false pretenses by lying to said piece of equipment, refer to vows and promises. So you know she / he will lie about anything. " We have an open marriage." It's a marriage of convenience, we're just roommates married for the tax, housing purposes. He/she is gay, we just married to keep his/her family off his/her back. He/she slips that ring off and is instantly single for the night, week or years if they're slick enough. I've heard each of these at one time or another, either on domestics or when I got stuck substituting bailiff in family court during divorce cases. I think a fellow in his position should do his due diligence to avoid such messes however some folks don't care and he may be one of those types. That's a dangerous risky way to live, people will kill you over their spouse and their dog. So I do agree he sure didn't help the situation but he never promised the deceased fellow a thing. She on the other hand made a promise that she didn't want to live up to and instead of just telling him she wanted to go get a different brand of hot dog for her bun she hurt him even worse than straight up leaving him would've. She had the option as to how bad she would hurt him and she chose the most vicious. SO I'd have to vote the other way when it came down to who got the special vitamins. I tried to insert a little humor in this because it is a sad situation but I do believe his situation should be placed at her feet inasmuch as she placed him in the position that he felt he no other option. She should feel lucky he didn't take on that final trip with him.

well then, order two sets of pills.......

[Gil Boyd]

I think the SAR issue at Lakenheath under Obama's cuts in Europe are all on hold, till they see what happens in the Ukraine and N Korea.
Better here then back home if they have to make the miles up quickly.
On the pilot issue in Belgian, it will be interesting to hear the findings when they come out

[Flying10uk]

It was rumoured, at the time, that the chap over-dosed on the antidepressants that his doctor had prescribed to him to try to help him with the upset caused by his marriage difficulties. Slightly ironic if true but very sad.


Finding out that one's wife or the woman that one is seeing has been sleeping with another man, surely has to be one of the worst things that any man has to face. Different people react in different ways.

[Paul S.]

It was rumoured, at the time, that the chap over-dosed on the antidepressants that his doctor had prescribed to him to try to help him with the upset caused by his marriage difficulties. Slightly ironic if true but very sad.


Finding out that one's wife or the woman that one is seeing has been sleeping with another man, surely has to be one of the worst things that any man has to face. Different people react in different ways.

I had a cousin, Bernard, who was a local delivery truck driver living in Fairfield at the time. He was making deliveries to various factories in the Villawood-Fairfield area and decided to nip home and surprise his lovely, blonde, buxom wife, the mother of his two children, with a take-away lunch. The surprise was his when he found her in bed with the woman from across the road. Apparently, the two of them had been having a lesbian love affair for over six months. Bernard, did the sensible thing - divorced her, took the two kiddies and move on. He later married again.

[LowSpeed]

I think the SAR issue at Lakenheath under Obama's cuts in Europe are all on hold, till they see what happens in the Ukraine and N Korea.
Better here then back home if they have to make the miles up quickly.
On the pilot issue in Belgian, it will be interesting to hear the findings when they come out

I wouldn't recognize the country if I went back today, though I can still tell you how to get from RAFL to my buddies house in Brandon. When I was there aside from RAFL and Mildenhall there was RAF's Upper Heyford, Bentwaters, Woodbridge, Molesworth, Sculthorpe, Greenham Common, Fairford and all the satellite bases like Feltwell. I have noticed over the years RAFL has become more and more crowded with buildings being built with none being torn down. The converted hangar I worked in was to be demolished in the late 1990's. That plan was made in 1991, it's still there on Google Earth with a bunch of stuff built all around it.

Regarding Belgium - yep, we're just going to have to wait and watch. Tragic as it it is I can't help but be interested in the results of the investigation.

[Gil Boyd]

I think you would still remember the road networks around Brandon no problem, other than the A11 being upgrade to a dual carriageway right past Thetford, the roads between Mildenhall and Lakenheath are the same.
Upper Heyford has gone, Bentwaters now British Army base, all the others have also gone, with the exception of Molesworth, which is still there and getting bigger. Alconbury of course gets smaller but is still very much active.
The brilliant U.S. Hospital at Upwood has been flattened and sadly gone, but all the WW2 building and hangers the RAF had are still much in evidence.
Change for the sake of change, but they'll wish they were still going if things continue the way they are this side of the pond.

[LowSpeed]

I think I could manage, I saw / heard about the road enlarged, lot's of traffic on it even then. From what I can see on Google Earth Brandon hasn't changed too much.

My first dorm was a small one which at one time was officer billeting, I assume for the RAF because it was certainly that old. We moved out in 1990 to a new dorm because they were too demolish the them. It's still there, just like the converted hanger I worked in was to be.

I really enjoyed my time there. Best advice I was given when I got there all homesick was to "get off base and make some friends among the community". It sure made leaving suck though. Upon doing so I found it to be a lot like home, rural - lots of farming and only a couple of major employers in the area. Loads of guys I worked with were MSGT and above who had been to 2 bases; Thailand during Viet Nam and RAFL or Mildenhall. They were married to UK citizens, owned homes there and retired there. If my plan was to be a career airman I could see myself doing that. It was an easy place to like.

[Gil Boyd]

Yes, it is safe to say, many Suffolk girls left our shores with U.S servicemen from the two major bases there

[LowSpeed]

True, it wasn't like a lot of other places where marriages were largely motivated by getting into the U.S. You could feel safe in knowing if a girl was talking to you it wasn't based on a desire to get U.S. citizenship. Not sleazy. I never was stationed in one of those places but you could easily tell which dependent wives of guys who came there from being in the far east were only suffering through their marriage to get that citizenship. I didn't see that there, in fact most of the marriages I saw resulted in them staying in the U.K. I still harbor plans to go back someday and see my civilian colleagues before they all pass away. It wasn't a place I wanted to leave.