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Held at White Waltham Airfield to celebrate 75 years of flying there. There was an exhibition of ATA memorabilia. There were flying displays from a wide variety of aircraft including a Spitfire and Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Flight, and a visit from a Vampire.
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Leadership of Joint Task Force Sierra paid a visit to MCRD July 8 to personally thank and recognize Marine Corps Master Instructor Trainers who assisted Guarsdmen in meeting training requirements with combatives and compliance training in June.
A souvenir cobblestone from Ruedersheim's famous Drosselgasse. Whenever sections of the street are renewed, they keep the old stones for presentation purposes.
Whilst a UK arms control inspector, following the signing of the Dayton Agreement on Confidence & Security Building Measures in the Former Yugoslavia, and after having conducted several arms control inspections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I was sent to Germany as one of the instructors on an arms control course for members of the former warring factions.
Our German hosts organised a boat trip down the Rhein, with a stop at Ruedersheim. They had arranged a wine tasting at the Rathaus (Town Hall), and a speech by the mayor. On leaving the mayor invited us to pick up a "famous Drosselgasse cobblestone" from a mountain of them stacked by the exit, along with a certificate of authenticity; the former warring faction students were not impressed, one Serb muttering to me "they throw these at the police in Belgrade!"
I picked up two as my teenage daughter, at the time, collected stones and rocks I brought back from arms control inspections.
On checking in at Frankfurt-Main for the flight home, I dumped my daysack on the counter with a big thump. "What do you have in there?" the check in girl demanded; "Pflastersteine" (cobblestones) I replied. "Was, Pflastersteine!" she said incredulously. After I produced them for her, she waved me through with a look that said "crazy English!"