Christopher recalls several incidents from his time in the Radfan. On one occasion: "our camp took some intense machine-gun and rocket fire from dissidents one night while I was on radio-watch with (then) Corporal Barry Hirst" . On another occasion '...we also had to search for a downed helicopter, which had crashed killing everyone on board'.
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