Fred the Para drops in on Cadbury
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FEW PEOPLE followed the progress of the Task Force in the South Atlantic with greater concern than Fred Gandy, of North Western British Road Services. He is now shop steward at the Stockport branch and drives on the Cadbury contract but for 12 years he served in 3 Paratroop Regiment, which played such a gallant part in ejecting the Argentinians from the Falklands.
He still devotes much of his spare time to training paratroop recruits. He himself also has to undergo regular training, making rather different deliveries from those that occupy his daily life.
He has to leap out of a Hercules C130 aircraft with an 85Ib container strapped to his leg. I would not fancy the jump even off a tailboard, although I once had to suffer a deranged colonel who insisted that all his officers should hurl themselves rearwards from a lorry travelling on a main road at over 20mph. Alas, we were not of the stuff of Fred Gandy, even without 85Ib canisters.