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Alan Jelly giving the salute in the Tech Wing Aden Gun Pack Bay - May61.   Anyone remember other names?   Mel Leake writes: "Standing to the left of Alan is myself, Mel Leake.   Shortly after this photo was taken Alan and I were posted to RAF Laarbruch ready for the closing of Jever.   Alan was the Best Man at my wedding in March 1962.   I left for our honeymoon and I never saw or heard from Alan again as he left the RAF.   Never been able to find him since then."   Are you out there Alan?   Mel would welcome a call!   John Mackenzie adds that he is the one kneeling in front of the gun pack in the background.   The bench on which Al Jelley is leaning was the favourite place to lie under on a bed of gun pack covers and sleep off a hangover.   You were usually awoken by one of your "pals" dry firing solid steel practice rounds through a 30mm which were then ejected into a steel dustbin placed next to your ear - the noise was horrendous!   (Thanks to Joe Futymed.)
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