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Andy Dinsdale – Getting hit during the first Gulf War

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It was the first Gulf War and again I was early 20’s at that stage and I remember you know my 21st Birthday on 17th May, we got shot at.

It was one of those things you don’t ever forget, so you can Google it now, you know, 17th May 1987. In fact, it was the USS Stark that got hit, so you can Google it and USS Stark got hit by a missile from the Iranians on the 17th May, and we were relatively close, so thankfully for us, it didn’t come and get us

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