Charlie Posted February 17, 2010 Member ID: 1067 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 11 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 95 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 05/02/1973 Posted February 17, 2010 Does any one remember those days, were you there
Charlie Posted February 17, 2010 Member ID: 1067 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 11 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 95 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 05/02/1973 Author Posted February 17, 2010 The good old days, going to school in armoured vehicles and being escorted by soldiers. Sometimes at night the terrs as we called them would shoot at the 30 house compound where we all lived, their rounds would sound like hail on the tin roofs as they didnt dare come to close as the guys from the Rhodesian Light Infantry would get them so their rounds had spent most of their energy. They fired rifle grenades which used to land in the trees a couple of hundred meters from the outer fence, we used to go into the pantry as it had no windows.
Charlie Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 1067 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 11 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 95 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 05/02/1973 Author Posted February 22, 2010 We lived in an area of Rhodesia called Chimanimani which is mountainous forrested terrain which was owned by Angloamerican if my memory serves me right. The compound where we lived was called Melsetter and the workshops and saw mill were a 10 min drive. To go shopping in the nearest town which was called Umtali now called mutare we had to go in convoy. There were pickups with rotating cages that had mounted lmgs fitted and then we had army trucks mixed in and a few of the old armoured vehicles. The journey was treachorous and the chances of an ambush or hitting landmines was quite high.
gwalms Posted February 22, 2010 Member ID: 240 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 3 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 168 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 958 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 20, 2015 Birthday: 11/17/1962 Posted February 22, 2010 so I assume you weren't playing soccer with the kids from the next town.
Charlie Posted February 24, 2010 Member ID: 1067 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 11 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 95 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 05/02/1973 Author Posted February 24, 2010 Lol no but we actually used to go for walks into the forest next to the compound unescorted and actually found an old terrorist camp, cant believe we walked out like that was really dangerous.
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