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Fearless Leader said:
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...
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He was a DBU fitter, but I don't think he did 280 SU. Of course you can also add to the list the getting the north marker offset wrong (not done by me I may add) and it takes days for the scopies to note that the returns on the screen of a Trans-Atlantic airway, are not aircraft flying across the English Channel.
 
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4 man rooms (and I don't mean in training).
Team washing powder/toothpaste/tobacco/girlfriends.
O2 "hangover cures" from the Sqippers.
SNCO's fist, correction, for the use of.
Red Flag
Decci
Goose
Friaday lunchtime drinks in uniform down the local.
Beer calls with 100% turnout.
Scaley bashing (especially Sunday lunch)
Monday Bull nights.
Gizzit collecting.
Sticking the Sqn Zap in the most ourageous place competitions.
Survivng on less than 4 hours kip a night.
Going to a different club/Sqn bar every night of the week.
Post dated cheques for the last weekend of the month.
Having the best time of your life......and not realising it until now.
 
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Fairynuff31 said:
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....:PDT_Xtremez_19:
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Active Edge was an aircraft generation exersise, can't remember if it was just RAFG or a NATO thing.

Different note:
Dropping china graph leads in awkward places or spilling coffee down mini comms wasn't just a scopie trick, air traffic was quite good at it too, just ask ground radio.:PDT_Xtremez_28:
 
Deputy_Dawg said:
4 man rooms (and I don't mean in training).
Team washing powder/toothpaste/tobacco/girlfriends.
O2 "hangover cures" from the Sqippers.
SNCO's fist, correction, for the use of.
Red Flag
Decci
Goose
Friaday lunchtime drinks in uniform down the local.
Beer calls with 100% turnout.
Scaley bashing (especially Sunday lunch)
Monday Bull nights.
Gizzit collecting.
Sticking the Sqn Zap in the most ourageous place competitions.
Survivng on less than 4 hours kip a night.
Going to a different club/Sqn bar every night of the week.
Post dated cheques for the last weekend of the month.
Having the best time of your life......and not realising it until now.
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Ahhhh Sweet Memories come flooding back. You must have joined up in the 70s.
 
Smoking at your desk in SCAF.

Smoking in the tea bar whilst making the bacon butties.

Having to go to SHQ to do your photocopying.

Signal runs (4 times a day) to COMCEN.

Austin Mini as the squadron car.

Arriving & clearing in your No 1 uniform.

Hiding in a wardrobe in the WRAF block when the coppers set off the fire alarm to catch the lads & praying that it wasn't a real fire.

Hot bedding in the HPS on TACEVAL with a sweaty fecker.

Sewing creases in your OGs so they looked smart & were really tight around your arse cheeks!
 
Mustang said:
Active Edge was an aircraft generation exersise, can't remember if it was just RAFG or a NATO thing.

Active Edge was a no notice NATO aircraft genoration exercise that used to get called at all times of day & night best remember one being called on a Sunday afternoon in 80's at Lossiemouth in the bucc era just after the local raft race had finished. A very puzzled load team trying to fit 4x1000lb bombs of which 3 had port or left handed carriers fitted oops:PDT_Xtremez_07:
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joncollier said:
Mustang said:
Active Edge was an aircraft generation exersise, can't remember if it was just RAFG or a NATO thing.

Active Edge was a no notice NATO aircraft genoration exercise that used to get called at all times of day & night best remember one being called on a Sunday afternoon in 80's at Lossiemouth in the bucc era just after the local raft race had finished. A very puzzled load team trying to fit 4x1000lb bombs of which 3 had port or left handed carriers fitted oops:PDT_Xtremez_07:
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Ahhh...the Station Callout Plan. All went for a ball of chalk in the early 90's when everyone had answerphones fitted.

"Sorry Chief, only got the message when I switched the machine on this morning . Did we win!!" LOL
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Remember being picked up by MT in a taxi for a call out in the mid 80's at Gutersloh at 2 in the morning....now that was service
 
Lincolnshire armourers games nights having been outlawed by H&S Human Rights Act & the RSPCA anyway just wouldn't been the same now its down to Waddington v Coningsby home & away could always invite Cranwell to make up the numbers. Another pink polar bear barmaid fond memories:PDT_Xtremez_15:
 
Norman the Storeman said:
Smoking at your desk in SCAF.

Smoking in the tea bar whilst making the bacon butties.

Having to go to SHQ to do your photocopying.

Signal runs (4 times a day) to COMCEN.

Austin Mini as the squadron car.
Arriving & clearing in your No 1 uniform.

Hiding in a wardrobe in the WRAF block when the coppers set off the fire alarm to catch the lads & praying that it wasn't a real fire.

Hot bedding in the HPS on TACEVAL with a sweaty fecker.

Sewing creases in your OGs so they looked smart & were really tight around your arse cheeks!
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Off Topic I remember the CXX-painted Mini being deposited outside the other sqn Hq's before they buggered off on leave, usually in the OC's parking slot :PDT_Xtremez_30:
Is the "Mini Bar" still in the HQ? Off Topic
 
Racing Bev tractors around the ssa loaded with specials, with no HSE inspector in sight--
mind you in '77 there was no such thing as HSE
 
Head checks ... out early in the morning. 1.2.3.4. yup they are all there.

Except at SAXA Vord one morning (where the real idea was to look for ripped panels) when it went.

T96, yup. HF200, yup. T93 Yu..................... HOLY SHHHHHHHHHH :raf:

Phone call to the OPS room " Sir the 93`s gone "

Zob " Ok corpse just reset it "

"No Sir the T93 not the T96"

Zob " but thats just a dome ! "

" Not anymore sir "

Queue Station recall :PDT_Xtremez_17:
 
JAFAD666 said:
Head checks ... out early in the morning. 1.2.3.4. yup they are all there.

Except at SAXA Vord one morning (where the real idea was to look for ripped panels) when it went.

T96, yup. HF200, yup. T93 Yu..................... HOLY SHHHHHHHHHH :raf:

Phone call to the OPS room " Sir the 93`s gone "

Zob " Ok corpse just reset it "

"No Sir the T93 not the T96"

Zob " but thats just a dome ! "

" Not anymore sir "

Queue Station recall :PDT_Xtremez_17:
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JF666,

I seem to recall the nodding dog (HF) head mysteriously disappeared one night at SV. I remember the call, however I was at Benbecs at the time.

Head checks haha what a joke! More like gash brew time:PDT_Xtremez_06:

Also at another Northern Scottish (Island) AD site when a Regt Rapier Sqdn was in the vicinity managed to shoot holes through the IDF/SSR why...who knows.
 
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JAFAD666 said:
You`ve either had more than me ... or I`ve missed the point ? explain bigman ?
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Tsk - Smally !!

Grease-proof bog roll, every sheet printed with "Government Property". Utterly useless for wiping your jacksi with.

Also the embossed soap was in every bog. I heard a tale of an Airman getting nicked by the RAFP at a carboot sale, "Get your official Royal Wedding soap here" !!!
 
Inevertouchedit said:
Tsk - Smally !!

Grease-proof bog roll, every sheet printed with "Government Property". Utterly useless for wiping your jacksi with.

Also the embossed soap was in every bog. I heard a tale of an Airman getting nicked by the RAFP at a carboot sale, "Get your official Royal Wedding soap here" !!!
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....The only government White Paper worth a Sh1t...

and even thats gone now!!
 
Oh the memories!

Oh the memories!

Hairy Marys, white PT skirts, SWOs actually checking your bedding on inspections, sweating on a hot day in shirt, tie and jumper because it was still winter dress! Being thrown in the mail sack for a shift 'kicking' to put you in your place at your first posting. How did we survive without H & S?
 
Cosford in the mid-70's had 5 discos a weeks (Monday was cleaning night and Fridays we went into Wolvo or Brum)
Hairy Maries - still got no hair on my calves
Crate of beer in the Gatow NAAFI 4 marks (£1)
Double and a Mixer (as above) - 1 mark (25p)
American PX in Berlin, buying lots of yank stuff you couldn't get in the UK (including digital watches - woooooh!)
Being thrown out of first floor window by a rock ape at Luffers, and not having to report it to H&S (luckily landed on grass) - I deserved it; when asked by said rock ape did I think I was cleverer than him, I replied "No - I know I am cleverer than you". Unfortunately, he was much bigger and harder than me.
 
Forward delivery in a Karrier Bantam
Looking for volunteers to take the Avpin to the bomb dump
NAAFI waggon selling the roast meat in sarnies that should have been served in the Mess
Trying to be quiet in yer crisp packet blue waterproofs during Tacevals
Using 3 days leave to get a Monday or Friday off
 
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