Brave Troops Say Goodbye As They Fly Off for Afghan Mission ; Holidaymakers and Business Travellers Departing From Exeter Airport Came Face to Face with More Than 100 Heavily-Laden Royal Marines and Royal Navy Medics in Desert Combat Fatigues.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › October 01, 2008

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Holidaymakers and business travellers departing from Exeter Airport came face to face with more than 100 heavily-laden Royal Marines and Royal Navy medics in desert combat fatigues.

The Devon-based troops arrived at the airport before dawn yesterday, bound for Afghanistan on an Air Slovakia charter flight which took off at 8am.

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Brave Troops Say Goodbye As They Fly Off for Afghan Mission ; Holidaymakers and Business Travellers Departing From Exeter Airport Came Face to Face with More Than 100 Heavily-Laden Royal Marines and Royal Navy Medics in Desert Combat Fatigues.

They attracted plenty of attention from bleary- eyed passengers waiting to check in for the 6.30am flight to Paris and the...

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