It doesnt happen any more

[Stax]

When Credenhill had 5 women to every bloke.
No mixed flights in recruit training, so no distractions.
3 Flights of 64 on each intake, and nearly all of us passed out.
"Behind the racks" counseling.
Doing "shadys" for scrap metal with the rag and bone man (yes kids thats how the bar got its name!)
Gate Guard in No1's
H&S meant wearing a pair of gloves when refuelling.
COSHH was something you hit the FNG with!
Throwing people in the Brayford Wharf after a day on the pi55 (its called common assault now)
"Liquid!" suppers.
Someone already mentioned, everyone staying on camp at the weekend.
3AM swing breakfast mmmmm steak and bacon and eggs!
Being fully manned, even allowing for leave.

 

[leedsunited]

Getting kicked out for being a sausage jockey. Getting kicked out for being pregnant. Getting promoted - by the general chat on here. Boozing at dinnertime. Getting charged for being in the WRAF block. Decent overseas postings. The only people with medal ribbons on the entire camp are LS & GC holders. The only person on the camp with a mobile phone is an LAC GD drug dealer from Mosside Manchester. I would imagine the RAF Tash is in serious decline aswell. Do techies still walk about looking like Worzel Gummidge or are they infact even scruffier now. Just a few that spring to mind. Oh, proper snecs that aren't scared to give someone a bollocking. TACEVALS. Thats enough for now.

Agree with all the above but missing Electric wrestling at the shag and shuffle and staring down the barrel of a shotgun in Raul's Rose Garden for dancing on the bar!!!!DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[backscuttler]

What About

What About

Shaving the inside of your hairy blue trousers so they don,t rub your legs red raw

Making your shirts and kit last all year so you can get your clothing allowance back

doing starter crew on lightnings without ear defenders and having avpin fumes blown into your face. Oh the joy of it all!!!

Your Flt Sgt kept his beret on all day

Eng Wing discip Sgt,s were a pain in the a**e

The whole shift going to the pub every thursday lunchtime after pay parade

 

[Chaka]

My all time favourite (from the 1960's when I was scaley brat) was being made to line up for the RAF 'Tin Can' dark blue school bus in the order of your fathers rank. Offrs children first and then WO kids and then us plebs last.

Or....

'Officers Only' toilets and entrances to SHQ
4 hour March Outs by the RAF Families Officer
RAF Pyjamas and detachable collers on your shirts
RAF two seater settees
RAF Curtains
RAF Carpets
4 White Vulcan QRA scrambles
24 Tornadoes doing a survival scrambles at 0630 followed by 12 Victors
Getting the crap kicked out of you by the Spetnaz (2 Para)
Russian Bears
Hot bedding in the COC
The Naafi Bop
The Mally
C/Ts with handlebar tashes
Fire Piquet
Duty Airman
No poofters
Keeping one leg on the ground when sitting on your mates bed
Knee tremblers behind TTF with mines fat waaf

 

[Canberraman]

It doesnt happen any more.

It doesnt happen any more.

It used to! Take the conversion from biplane bombers to the Bristol Blenheim. The dangers of conversion to the far faster twin engined Blenheim were exacerbated by the poor layout of the secondary controls; the pitch change controls were two push pull plungers behind the pilots left elbow, just below two identical plungers for the carburettor cut-outs, the latter were soon guarded by a sprung flap! Like the throttles, they were painted red and green for port or starboard, but that wasn't much use at night unless the pilot had colour sensitive elbows! The hydraulic system was controlled by three identical push/pullstirrup plungers down by the pilots right thigh - and the circuit had first energised from 'Neutral' by selecting either 'Undercarriage and flaps' or 'Turret' followed by pushing or pulling the flaps or undercarriage selector up or down as needed. It was all to easy to retract the undercarriage rather than the flaps after landing, especially at night. Pilots had to remember to first activate the control to provide pressure to the correct circuit before raising or lowering the wheels or flaps, or providing hydraulic power to the turret. If he didn't do this, nothing happened! Imagine, no hydraulic power, enemy aircraft tracking you, poor gunner! The fuel cocks were on the right-hand wall of the cockpit BEHIND the pilots right shoulder and difficult to reach from his seat, (As were the winders to open or close the engine cooling gills). The fuel gauges were mounted in the roof behind his head. To compound this horror, in thos far of days, there were no operational conversion units, HELP!!!!

Ken

 

[Cake or Death]

24 Tornadoes doing a survival scrambles at 0630 followed by 12 Victors


The title of the thread is 'Itdoesnt happen anymore' 24 tornados doing a scramble has surely NEVER happened!

 

[(JR)]

Using your putties to wrap up the legs of a casualty on exercise.

 

[joncollier]

Ripping out of ejection seat pans by hand banished by H&S brigade & ear defenders safely locked away in SNCO draw so as to prevent loss of inventory items.

 

[Inevertouchedit]

"Find a Gimp - use a Gimp" were the 1st words I learnt on my first "proper" posting, ie, get some other tw*t to do it for you if you can.

Also Gullible Smalleys were a joy to behold. On the day I left Marham, a shiny new rigger LAC was moving into the block as I humped my gear out. Quickly spotting an opportunity to exploit his lack of worldly nous, I flogged him a RAF bike & the Block ironing board for £30 !!

Job done - Gimp found !!

 

[patmac]

Hauling LACs up on the chains found in hangars and then leaving them dangling up there for a while! DT_Xtremez_31:

We used to put them in the break chute bags and haul them to the top of the tower!DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[Fearless Leader]

Writing backwards, chinagraphs, CRT displays, football results on ASMA, chatting to WAFFs on ASMA, chatting to someone pretending to be a WAFF on ASMA, green woolie gloves, green woolie balaclavas, ACTIVE EDGE callouts, 50p for a Becks in the Buchan NAAFI, living with your entire watch in a portakabin, dets to Greenham Common, OG waterproofs if you kissed the WOs arse, blue jeltex if you kissed the WO Asst's arse, getting soaked in your flasher mac on the gate if you refused to kiss arse, thinking you had made it when you were Tote Sup!!!

AND getting beasted if you hadn't studied for your TATs!

 

[mad_collie]

Writing backwards, chinagraphs, CRT displays, football results on ASMA, chatting to WAFFs on ASMA, chatting to someone pretending to be a WAFF on ASMA, green woolie gloves, green woolie balaclavas, ACTIVE EDGE callouts, 50p for a Becks in the Buchan NAAFI, living with your entire watch in a portakabin, dets to Greenham Common, OG waterproofs if you kissed the WOs arse, blue jeltex if you kissed the WO Asst's arse, getting soaked in your flasher mac on the gate if you refused to kiss arse, thinking you had made it when you were Tote Sup!!!

AND getting beasted if you hadn't studied for your TATs!

Covering for scopie mates on position, helping them with their PROMEX, changing video maps upside down/back to front to see if scopie mates would notice.DT_Xtremez_30:

Stripping down roller ball assemblies to get the chinagraph out that bored scopie mate had forced down it.DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[wolfy]

Taking the mincomms apart and drying it out for scopies who knocked their cups of tea over it.

 

[rhino]

Oh and how about this one

Oh and how about this one

Being lured into the RAF by unforgiving and mean recruiters who alledgedly didnt tell you the whole truth when you asked questions like

Are there as many girls in the RAF as Men? ....Oh yes laddy.

What is a rigger mech? Well you see the shiney silver aeroplane in the pictures..you fix that

Is a rigger mech important...Oh yes laddy

You soon learnt (it was all that laughing at you when arrived at Swinderby and again just louder when you got to Halton) and just got on with it.

Wouldnt give up the memories for anything...well maybe not any old thing

 

[S92]

It doesnt happen any more

DMS ankle boots
Thunderbird Jackets
Hairy Mary Blus
Pay Parades
Pre PC(political correctness)
Pre PC(computers)
Having to go through the operator to ring another Unit
Carbon paper
Gestetners
Blue 1250's
Watching 12 Vulcans take off
Watching 12 Victors take off
Watching 12 Lightnings take off
Being able to hear
Great Coats
Processing film
Walking into the darkroom on a Monday morning after it had been closed up all weekend
Being proud to serve.
And I'm still in(just)
DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[Fairynuff31]

Writing backwards, chinagraphs, CRT displays, football results on ASMA, chatting to WAFFs on ASMA, chatting to someone pretending to be a WAFF on ASMA, green woolie gloves, green woolie balaclavas, ACTIVE EDGE callouts, 50p for a Becks in the Buchan NAAFI, living with your entire watch in a portakabin, dets to Greenham Common, OG waterproofs if you kissed the WOs arse, blue jeltex if you kissed the WO Asst's arse, getting soaked in your flasher mac on the gate if you refused to kiss arse, thinking you had made it when you were Tote Sup!!!

AND getting beasted if you hadn't studied for your TATs!

Fearless - please remind me, what was Active Edge....?
I seem to remember it/them, but can't put my finger on what it/they actually were. Please enlighten....DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[welshjpc]

Getting fizzed on mechs course for alcohol in the block whereas the fitters were allowed something like 4 cans of lager OR 2 bottles of wine. Probably against human rights and all that poop now.

 

[Ex-Bay]

Shiny boots with skegs for last Jankers' parade and walking back in the rain to Fulton Block.
The collective CRASH of hundreds of boots on parade on Saturday Mornings.
The realisation that you walked just a little taller - and not just when in uniform.
Bulling the button stick as well as the buttons.
Getting another tube of toothpaste specifically for inspections
Gettng a haircut BEFORE you went on leave.
Discovering the IS a God when you passed that important exam
Watching an aircraft land and realising it's your turn to marshall it in
Discovering that you've 'been selected' for Guard of Honour
Stumbling over the main spar to get at the TR1985 radio in an Anson
Watching the 'first up' JP do his beat-up at Barkstone Heath
Trying to sleep in an armchair when between Guard turns
Scrounging another GasMask bag to put a book and fags, etc., when on VP guards and clipping to the webbing belt.
Being woken at some ungodly hour for a TECEVAL

Oh the sheer fun of it all. . . . .

DT_Xtremez_28:
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[Fearless Leader]

Covering for scopie mates on position, helping them with their PROMEX, changing video maps upside down/back to front to see if scopie mates would notice.DT_Xtremez_30:

Stripping down roller ball assemblies to get the chinagraph out that bored scopie mate had forced down it.DT_Xtremez_25:

OMG you weren't out at 280SU in 91/92 were you? I seem to remember hearing about a certain SAC being wound up by the video map trick. He's such a high calibre operative he's now overseas in a NATO job...

Of course rumours about me being caught out by the 'range rings' trick or by a spoof Nimrod going down in the North Sea are just that - rumours...

 

[Fearless Leader]

Fearless - please remind me, what was Active Edge....?
I seem to remember it/them, but can't put my finger on what it/they actually were. Please enlighten....DT_Xtremez_19:

Crikey, when I was a lad. If my grey cells remember right they were a no-notice callout we used to have regularly where we had to achieve certain percentage of our manned strength in a certain time.

Remember one in particular when 3 zobs commandeered a passing MT Landrover in a blizzard and left a junior officer in charge of use stumbling up through the snow to work. We'd abandoned the coach because the snow was so bad and when we got in to work the top quality combats we used to get at that time were soaked.

It must have been later that year when we had ELDER FOREST and we got soaked again because you had to donate a kidney to get any waterproofs.