Family welcome for RAF heroes
AIRMEN and women were reunited with their families yesterday after a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Among the more than 150 members of RAF Lossiemouth’s 5 Force Protection Wing flying into the base was strategic air command officer, Adam Burrows.
He held his two-week-old son, Ethan, for the first time, and said: “On the day of the birth, I was in Camp Bastion and I kept ringing, but couldn’t get through to the ward. Eventually I did and then this little bundle of joy arrived.
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“I was just on the other end of the phone and I was just speechless at the time – I’m so proud.”
Tony Brown, 41, from Elgin, wing commander from 5 Force Protection Wing, who was reunited with wife, Donna, 40, and their three children, Lorna, three, Duncan, five, and Carrie, eight, said: “It’s absolutely fantastic to be back home with the wife and kids, but it was absolutely freezing when I walked through the doors – the cold just hit me.
I was just on the other end of the phone and I was just speechless at the time – I’m so proud
“We’ve been used to the high 30s in Afghanistan every day and even in Cyprus, where we flew in from, so it was a real shock to the system.
“But it was a great surprise to see the kids here as it’s a school night and I thought they would be tucked up in bed at this time.”