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Title: Inside Porton Down
Post by: STEMO on 26 June 2016, 18:00:49
Tuesday, 9pm, BBC 4. No state secrets revealed, I'm sure, but should be interesting nevertheless.
Title: Re: Inside Porton Down
Post by: Shackeng on 26 June 2016, 19:18:23
I still laugh at the memory of the regular appearance on Station Routine Orders, back in the early '60's, of a request for volunteers to spend a week at Porton Down to " help research into the common cold". Even in my callow youth I was not that gullible, even with the bribe of an extra shilling a day or some such, plus -ooh goody - a 48 hour pass. :y
Title: Re: Inside Porton Down
Post by: STEMO on 26 June 2016, 19:20:26
It's very recent history, and shocking the way people were used as guinea pigs.
Title: Re: Inside Porton Down
Post by: ronnyd on 26 June 2016, 19:57:28
Same as servicemen used during atom bomb tests >:(
Title: Re: Inside Porton Down
Post by: tigers_gonads on 27 June 2016, 13:28:19
I still laugh at the memory of the regular appearance on Station Routine Orders, back in the early '60's, of a request for volunteers to spend a week at Porton Down to " help research into the common cold". Even in my callow youth I was not that gullible, even with the bribe of an extra shilling a day or some such, plus -ooh goody - a 48 hour pass. :y




 ;D ;D  Still appeared every few weeks during the 80's when I was doing my bit  ;D ;D

Remembered one beer call out in sausage land when one of the jockys invited a Medical Officer (who hade been on a jolly to Deci with us) for a drink with the troops forgetting that our new boss had implemented a No Rank at beer call rule   :y :y

Needless to say, this subject came up and said M.O after a few beers thought he'd defend Porton Down's right to poison the troops under the guise of testing a new flue vaccine  ::) ::)
Oh how we laughed ..............  :-X :D :D