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Bedspace at Palace Barrcks, East Belfast, 1990
Night patrol in West Belfast, 1990
“There’s a huge problem with the culture of alcohol in the forces, like in Britain as a whole. The boozing is notorious – it’s what you do when you get an evening out, you get annihilated. When you’re in the forces, you’re marching across fields with a 50lb rucksack sweating it all out the next morning. But without that structure, that discipline, you’re topping it up all the time: ‘cotton-woolling’ your feelings with alcohol or drugs...
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