Friends Forever
In the armed forces you meet lots of people. You have to get on with everyone as best you can and work as a well oiled machine. It would be rare for someone to join up with a friend from home, so when you join you are on your own - just like everyone else so you make friends pretty quick. Within a couple of days at HMS Dauntless I had made several friends. By the end of the five weeks basic training I left with three very good friends. Six months later when I'd completed my engineering training I had two very special friends, who remained so for many years until we all left the Navy, married and went our own ways. Recently I 'found' one of them again. Not that I'd lost her but we just hadn't been in touch for a long while. We chatted for a couple of hours on the phone, emailed and texted, remembering all the times we had spent together, good and bad. This was Mo. I'm still looking for Pam - the third member. Pam was older than us by 4 years, although she...