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I learnt something drawing this page.  See when my dad was in the army our local base shop was called the NAAFI....well every base we lived on the shop was called the NAAFI  I was going to use this term in this comic page but turns out most of the NAAFI operating shops and services arent really UK based any more so they're not really a thing in the UK more other places now, so the term would be outdated and you can guarantee someone would point that out to me hahaha. 

 Army base life was weird as a kid.  Like you cant really roam off base so I guess as a result my parents were like...Yeah go out do what you want, dont want to see you until lunch time, even from a crazy early age like 5-6 I was allowed to leave the house on my own (or usually with a younger sister or two in tow) and we'd beable to just wander around on base and do our own thing.  We were never challenged, no adult thought to intervene.  The stuff we got up to that my parents never found out about...we were pretty much feral.  

It did mean that it would be hours before a parent would realise we were missing or something.  I remember taking my sister Lisa and a next door neighbours kid (they were both 4) out to try and find a shooting star I had seen falling the night before.  It looked like it fell behind teh woods near my house so we went looking and got hopelessly lost in the woods.  I was the eldest (about 6) so i was in charge, but we were lost like alll day.  Eventually we climbing into a field and it had these big bulls in it so we tried to feed them grass, it was at that point i suddenly found myself thrown over the shoulder of my dad and he was running.  Me over his shoulder and the two younger kids under each arm.  We'd been utterly unaware that a bull had been charging at us from across the other side of the field, and my parents had organised a search party to find us and had basically found us right at the right time I guess.

Maaan the spanking I got for that little escapade.....

Oh yeah...comic page.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/cf79fo3odefb1iq/pg296.png?dl=0