I'm sore that generation before you spoke same for your generation. It's understandable, normal process.This generation is mentally disabled, relative to our generation
Dusaboss,"Cold War Veterans" Something doesn't sound right in that word.
Anyway welcome to forum David.
Welcome to the forum. I visit from time to time. Slightly older than you !Dear French Foreign Legion.
My name is David hampson Miller. Aged 61.
I had the honour of serving along side the Americans and the French Foreign Legion during Coldwar Europe. 17-03-77 to 12-07-79.
With 7th field regiment Royal horse artillery.
I have amazing memories of that period in my life.
I would like to reconnect with other Coldwar Veterans.
I now live in Marseillan and would like to chat with other Veterans from my generation.
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Respect Chas. Don't have trouble with you. Thing is "Cold War veteran" is taken here in terms of PTSD and other bad things which have bad influence on veterans of a real armed conflict. I don't think it's fair to compare cold war with real war.Dusaboss,
I was a Cold War Veteran commanding a unit of the Queen's 6/7(V) HSF. Shades of Captain Mainwaring. Research Home Service Force on Wiki or Google. My unit is mentioned without names.
You all raise good points. That's why the British didn't raise a coldwar medal. I expect all your points. 28 months in a N.B.C. suit was enough to give me nightmares. M.A.D. mutual assured destruction. The constant reminder that Nuculer biological and chemical warfare was a real threat back then. I remember our regiments digging in to the side of mountains, and the Russian satellites finding us and crashing out and relocating some where new. I remember sharing rassions with the 82nd airborne and with all the French fouren legion units. Europe was just a battle box. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Let's hope the young soldiers today take noteRespect Chas. Don't have trouble with you. Thing is "Cold War veteran" is taken here in terms of PTSD and other bad things which have bad influence on veterans of a real armed conflict. I don't think it's fair to compare cold war with real war.
And when someone saying cold war veteran in that manner I think he is thinking like "that was war of our generation", "It was real to us" . No it's not. Cold war or political tensions are far from real armed conflict.
If I'm wrong and David was simply thinking about army veterans from period of Cold War that I apologize. But there is difference between Cold war veteran and veteran from period of cold war.
I'm sore that generation before you spoke same for your generation. It's understandable, normal process.
I tried to represent the nuclear test veterans and the Christmas Ireland veterans by publishing all there experiences. I was subsequently removed from Facebook. They removed everything. Years of my research. I recorded every thing the BNTV British nuclear test veterans wanted the world to know. As they all died of terrible post nuclear diseases. I was silenced. And devastated. The test veterans had lost the ability to create biological healthy families. The children that came from there broken DNA was heartbreaking.In the last 12 years there have been 3 official medal reviews in the UK,. They have all been flawed, utterly shambolic and dishonest.
The last one by Sir. John Holmes was instigated by Prime Minister Cameron who said ; I wish to draw a line in the sand with this review in view of all the anomalies relating to medallic recognition.
21 groups, varying from Arctic Convoy veterans, the Yangtse incident, Porton Down experiments, Korea post armistice, NS men, the Nuclear Test veterans, Cyprus and the Cold War just to mention a few.
Sir. John said they would ALL be looked at and considered by the AMS/Honours and Decorations Committee.
Only one was even looked at and was successful. This was the WW2 Arctic Convoy medal. The remainder were simply ignored. How do I know ? Well I gave written an oral evidence to Sir. John Holmes on behalf of a specific group at the Cabinet Office. Sir John, either wittingly or unwittingly misled me. Simply I believe that I was lied to. Under the FOI Act over a few years this has been factually ascertained. In seven cases nine judges found in our favour. The authorities simply hope we will all die and they can forget about the veterans who they traduce at every opportunity.
The answer would be a National Defence Medal similar to Australia and NZ to encompass all claims, since H. M. The Queen head of their Armed Forces and our own has issued one. NZ also has medal for NT participants. France also has a National Defence Medal.
The current position is that official complaints have been made against several named senior civil servants who have tried to cover up this dishonest fiasco.
Hearing airplanes flying over your head knowing that they coming to drop bombs on you isn't such fun neither. Should I, or my countrymen complain about PTSD?You all raise good points. That's why the British didn't raise a coldwar medal. I expect all your points. 28 months in a N.B.C. suit was enough to give me nightmares. M.A.D. mutual assured destruction. The constant reminder that Nuculer biological and chemical warfare was a real threat back then. I remember our regiments digging in to the side of mountains, and the Russian satellites finding us and crashing out and relocating some where new. I remember sharing rassions with the 82nd airborne and with all the French fouren legion units. Europe was just a battle box. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Let's hope the young soldiers today take note
I had various letters published in the national press on behalf of British NT veterans. I lost a great friend whose children also suffered as a result.I tried to represent the nuclear test veterans and the Christmas Ireland veterans by publishing all there experiences. I was subsequently removed from Facebook. They removed everything. Years of my research. I recorded every thing the BNTV British nuclear test veterans wanted the world to know. As they all died of terrible post nuclear diseases. I was silenced. And devastated. The test veterans had lost the ability to create biological healthy families. The children that came from there broken DNA was heartbreaking.
Should I, or my countrymen complain about PTSD?
If PTSD is so real and impact so much soldiers than majority of my nation should suffer from it.
This is only my personal view. Please view its contents as being my own personal experiences and words.Hearing airplanes flying over your head knowing that they coming to drop bombs on you isn't such fun neither. Should I, or my countrymen complain about PTSD?
If PTSD is so real and impact so much soldiers than majority of my nation should suffer from it. From mine sixth year my country was in some kind of war or tensions close to war. Maybe is safe only in last few years. (and that safety is questionable).
So I have certain doubts in PTSD being real disease. I am not saying that there isn't people suffering from it just saying that isn't so common as today's media forcing it. To be honest, there is something which makes soldiers suffering lot more from variety of mental illnesses than general population do, but I'm convinced that some (or multiple) traumatic events during war (or cold war) using root cause for most of them.
I really like this subject on PTSD because I like army and I like psychology so David ... I would like to continue this discussion with you.
Once again, you said you and your son helping UK veterans and you did some research on guys involved in British nuclear testing?
Can you give us more info on those two subjects?
Hay , that was in defensive purposes. (They say).My research from the aborigines that lived In the test zones and British nuclear test veterans from Christmas Ireland was subsequently removed from Facebook.
They removed everything.
Years of my research and statements from BNTV conferences in Western supermare.
Were all deleted and destroyed by Facebook.
I recorded every thing the BNTV British nuclear test veterans wanted the world to know.
I watched in horror as they all died of terrible post nuclear diseases.
I was silenced.
Subcequently the Australian Aborigines and British nuclear test veterans had lost the ability to create biological healthy families.
Mutant children that manifested from there broken DNA was heartbreaking and disturbing beyond comprehension.