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Doing gate guard in blues with the afore mentioned mac and gloves, no weapons or radios. banned from reading books or listening to the radio whilst on guard in case you stopped "concentrating" on being a guard. Later followed by an amendment to guard orders banning rubic cubes from the picket post. Friday lunchtime in the boozer followed by sweep up, sign up go home. Egg banjo's in hot locks. AOC's parades actually carried out on the parade square. Searching your car for IED's every time you got in it.
 
Elaborate please? Sounds perverse...

There is supposed to be no set recipe for Honkers...It should be whatever is left in the galley shoved into the pan and cooked up although I believe some crews had their own adaptation of it...It more Pindits era than mine...

Off Topic OTOH I've produced Fresh salmon, Lobster tails, home spun chillie, the much vaunted bin liner fruit salad, airshow orange and much more from the humble MR2 galley...
 
Monthly tool kit inspections - when we each had a standard issued tool kit in a green bag. Lining up for the inspection you would swap one of your spare ball pein hammers (you found one doing a B/F last week) for the 2BA openended that you seem to have lost!

Deci shifts - start at 12 noon work until finished - back in at 06 am for first see-offs, knock off at 12 noon ...... and you were still on the lash when you knocked off last night.

A month on vulcan QRA - 48 on - 48 off - 72 on, 48 off - 48 on - 72 off for a month.

H&S what was that?
 
Throwing people in the EWS. God damn H&S!!!!!

Oh the memories of climbing out of the EWS feeezing my t!ts off whilst every bu99er else laughs at the soaking wet newbie. Still it had it's good points there was always another newbie due in after you.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
New people being called "sprogs" and not "newbies"!

Whilst wearing your warm flasher mack and woolley gloves!

Ahh, the old flasher mack, not those shi'te one's with the belt but the one's with the slits for pockets that always gaped open.....i've actually still got mine in a box somewhere!
 
Swing shift dinner at 3am followed by "tea" of full english at 0800 before crashing out.

Parade squares before they became car parks.

Full kit inspections every January.

Taking half of Thursday mornings to queue up for pay parade.

Exercises without NBC kit.

Mickey Finns and Micks

Everybody staying on camp at weekends
 
Fishing in the EWS during the summer trying to catch the carp that someone had robbed from the local lake.

If you said COSHH SHEF H&S VSA the reply would be What the fu*k are you on about you tw*t
 
a couple more

a couple more

Being called a tosser for wearing ear defenders when seeing off Vulcans....whats that you said...cant hear you.

laughing at techies who wore stable belts
 
Tin hats like a soup bowl.

Puttees.

DMS boots.

RAFG.

Nuclear NATO QRA.

Dets to Deci.

Doing guard with a pick axe handle.

Chiefs/Fruit Segments doing GDT in DPs with shoes, light blue shirt and tie.

Thunderbird jackets.

Out the back of the hangar counselling sessions.
 
food

food

Mess food that was sometimes edible and real compo, babies heads, sausages, curry. chocolate and garibaldi biccies
 
Fishing in the EWS during the summer trying to catch the carp that someone had robbed from the local lake.

If you said COSHH SHEF H&S VSA the reply would be What the fu*k are you on about you tw*t

Hey Pie, the EWS at Witters has hundreds of Koi and Goldfish! I reckon the Plumbs should sell them! :PDT_Xtremez_28:
 
keep em coming

keep em coming

Hitching a lift from camp to your home in uniform with RAF in orange Dayglow tape on the back of your kit bag so that ppl would pick you up...always worked
 
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