MAY 19: IRAQ AFTER THE WAR: Two members of 24/30 Engineering Squadron from RAF Lyneham are in no doubt about what they have been missing during their time working in the deserts of the Gulf.
Corporal Mick Pemberton said: "What I am really looking forward to is drinking a nice cold pint of beer with my fiance."
And Junior Technician Andy "Nutty" Nuttall said that all he wants is to be cold again.
"I'm sick of sweating in this heat," he said.
Having said that, both men are getting on well working at Basra International Airport after a stint at a base in southern Arabia.
Cpl Pemberton, 32, has been in the RAF for 15 years and at Lyneham for the past two working on Hercules aircraft.
He is an aircraft electrician by trade and enjoys working on the latest state-of-the-art J-model Hercules. He said: "This is a good job and I would not swap it. I am well happy, the J is a better aircraft than the old K model, and it keeps you busy."
Junior Technician Nuttall, 29, had already travelled widely with the RAF before being deployed to the Gulf.
The other countries he has visited include Bosnia, Cyprus, Canada, and America.
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