I lived in West Germany for about 10 years back in the 19[78]0s as a British Army brat. Even back then, far more people died in RTAs or of smoking fags than e

I lived in West Germany for about 10 years back in the 19[78]0s as a British Army brat. Even back then, far more people died in RTAs or of smoking fags than ever were associated with exploding thingies. My dad was in EOD - RAOC 321 Coy (lol and bang!) before he did rather large logistics for the entire UK military, eventually as a full Col. His jumper had a flaming grenade on one sleeve and the other had a para jump badge on it. My hero. Oh, ICBM etc: We had bomb threats roughly weekly. At age six or seven, I knew how to frisk a car for bombs. Now I'm 52.