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I was also involved in this evacuation! My father (Ray Harris), worked as an Instructor at the Military School in MIS. He'd worked in Iran for 2 years and I visited twice during school holidays. It was during my second visit, arriving in December 1978, that the situation suddenly became awkward and hostile. We were moved from our accommodation to a more secure compound with many other families, but unfortunately, I cannot remember what this area was called. Everyone was frantically selling cars, motorbikes, furniture etc. etc. to local people where possible and also trying to decide what they could feasibly travel with in the event of our possible evacuation. We were only given 24 hours notice that we would be evacuated by the RAF, due to security reasons. As a 16 year old, it was all very exciting!! I've visited Iran since (in 2011) but unfortunately I didn't get a chance to return to this region but would love to revisit MIS one day.

I remember one C-130E Acft I crew'ed before I joined E-Flight . I was with the 345th and assigned to 62-1804