Hello, I haven't posted for a long while. I've been catching up over the weekend though. Around the time we found out about the drag queen coming to light and Corrie having previously spent time with this person elsewhere in the country (forget where now), we all had a vote and only myself and one other person thought Corrie was AWOL. I said at the time that I thought he had 'run away to the circus' and hoped he was having fun. With regards to more recent things being discussed/coming to light, I still believe he is AWOL. Just my opinion, but I'l tell you why I've come to this conclusion: He'd had all types of jobs and couldn't settle in one career, until he settled into the RAF. His family would have been quite rightly proud of him and relieved he had finally settled into a career. I believe from his fun, lively character, sociability and not being able to stick at jobs for long that he possibly was an ADHD type personality and focusing/sticking to one job or career would have been hard for him. Obviously I don't know this, I just have come to this conclusion. I think he loved being the entertainer, the joker and sounds a lovely lad but one who didn't want to let his family down by jacking in the RAF, especially as they'd probably told him they had been relieved he had finally settled down. I think with all the threesome's and swinging going on and hanging out with the drag queen he found some fun times, which given the rigidity of army rules was a complete contrast. I don't think small-town nightclubs were his thing. He just went along, but preferred bigger more exciting nights out. If its true he knew a baby was a possibility with a girl he was just swinging with, he may well have been fearful of being made to settle down. I think that combined with wanting to change jobs, go have fun with lively people in bigger places, meant he'd been deliberating what to do for a while. However, I don't think he planned to go AWOL that weekend. I think it was a spur of the moment decision. I think he went to a couple's house for the rest of the evening for drinks (or more) and stayed there the weekend. That couple would be fearful to come forward in case they were implicated even if they were innnocent. I think he decided on Sunday he was not going back to the RAF, he didn't want to upset his family by jacking another job in and he went on the run. Possibly with help from others, or being the character he is, by chatting to others he met along the way. We've never been told what the long conversation was with his brother. Was it a long goodbye without the brother knowing (ie he sort of thought he might disappear that weekend) or did the Brother know a few things but didn't want to upset his family, so never told them, or was told by the family not to divulge them? Who knows? I think he is out there somewhere, possibly under another name. I think the media storm blew up bigger than he could of imagined and it was too late to come back. One thing I have to query though, is recently someone in my family was talking to me about the lad who went to the media from 'up North' who claimed tablets made him Gay. They said to me that there is still stigma up North, especially in small communities to someone coming out as Gay. I've no idea as I'm down South, but if that is so, could it be the same in a small community in Scotland? Could he have recently decided he was after all Gay and not Bi but couldn't come out and declare it so? Just my thoughts and own opinions.
