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TG3 Roll Call

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TG3 Roll Call

  • L Tech AD

    Votes: 22 15.4%

  • L Tech AF

    Votes: 26 18.2%

  • L Tech TC

    Votes: 30 21.0%

  • Eng Tech El

    Votes: 51 35.7%

  • I can't feckin remember, my trade has changed that many times.

    Votes: 17 11.9%
  • Total voters
    143
put myself down as Eng Tech El although thats not strictly true. joined as an ELM. consider myself to be a JAFAD. 3 AD tours, 1 AF, 1 TC, 2 AD OOAs (currently on my 2nd) and 1 AF OOA. I suppose I'm jack of all trades master of none!
 
L Fitt Gc

L Fitt Gc

L Fitt GC - remember them? (1967)

then L TECH GC or was it L FITT AF . . . or even L FITT AF(C) maybe

then . . oh, never mind, it's MISTER now.
 
Could'nt resist adding to the thread....

Started MTC 35, fitters course FTC40....went well for a while and then turned into an EL working on Ground Radios. Took until 3 years ago to get back to doing TC work in very sunny Germany as a CISTech or ICT Tech or whatever the b***dy ell we're called now.
 
LmechAd MAD 8 posted to Buchan for two years, was a naughty boy and posted to Rapier, didnt know what hit me spent the rest of my service with them, 48sqn, 19sqn, 54sqn, 15sqn,
LtechAD FAD26 best time ever, Locking, Weston-Super-Mud, scrumpy, like a dog with two d1cks.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
Does this make me a real JAFAD
 
DAF 59. Passed the 22 in march but I seem to be the only one to see it through. Done TCW, Stornoway, Gibraltar & Falklands among many. Only 8 yrs to me pension
 
Some old names from an old techie

Some old names from an old techie

Started life as "one of those DE's" on DR10 at Locking in '76, to become a L Fitt GR in '77, L Tech GR (for 1 month), L Tech AF(r), L Tech AF, Eng Tech EL. And I never asked for any changes.... Tours at Lyneham, Belize (4 times), Cranwell, Odiham, Gib, TCW X 2, GRSC,(N.Luff), 12SU Episkopi and finally at 1001 SU Rudloe Manor.

Now out of all this career chasing rubbish in 2001, happily working in a great job (most of the time) as a Mobile Sat Com Eng.
 
Greetings all just joined

demobbed in 2001 after Wing, Army then Wing again tours. Now working with a JAFAD (former Wing dissenter)

Ubique Loquimur

:PDT_Xtremez_32:
 
I can't be that old!

I can't be that old!

OK, looking at the courses that have been listed on the thread, I can see me taking off my colostomy bag, pulling up one filled with sand and squeezing hard for the best contest in town....can anybody own up to beating DAD13 (1978)? Best to post soon as I'll forget that I was here in the first place!
 
TG3 L Tech TC for me..

I was also "one of those DE" Types.. DTC145 May 1992 til Aug 1993 at the seaside.

RIP RAF Locking!

Spamout:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
Courses

Courses

MC81 and FTC12 at Locking, hub of the universe. Lived down town on my Mechs course, too short for a quarter. Divorced and lived ashore in a flat above Cameo shop in The Broadway on my Fitters course;scrumpy, swimming and shagging. Oh the memories!
 
I was L Tech TC DTC44.
TCW 11 12 81SUs and JCUFI. I left back on the last free cash and run. Believe me when you get out, the training you got takes you places and gets you good jobs.

My RAF training along with civilian pre employment course got me a Bachelor's Degree certificate when I moved to the States. Try the phone companies when you get out, I went straight to Vodafone which was more like the military than the RAF ever was!


:PDT_Xtremez_44:
 
Posting cause I can!

Posting cause I can!

L Tech AF & proud. Then Eng Tech EL and now a.............. what are we these days?
Out of the loop now & not missing it, hiding in the deepest darkest recesses of the trade.
 
Have I nothing better to do?

Have I nothing better to do?

Apparently, so I am now reliably informed, I am a:

Information and Communication Technology (systems) Technician.

Wow, that felt good. Identity at last known I can sleep easy tonight.

stfu

DAF 69 - now there's a course number.
 
Once a TC always a TC.

Once a TC always a TC.

Once a TC always a TC. DTC46 back in 83 for me, had numerous changes and waiting for the new ICT trade to come along!!:PDT_Xtremez_25:
 
speccytechy said:
L mech tc then eng tech el after fitters course now cis tech i think .
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Telegraph Mech TM34 - Digby, Gan, Stanbridge.
Telegraph Fittter FC36 - Boulmer, Cyprus, Boulmer, Afcent, Ramstein, Digby
L Tech TC
L Tech GC
Some other bloody thing then out
Civvy Street (worked on the DII bid with ICL/EDS sadly a carve up of the TC trade)
Retired:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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TG3 Roll Call

Greetings All.

Have recently joined and been perusing the site and making a couple of casual posts. Saw the intro's page and thought I should add my two penneth...

Joined 1985 - 7 weeks at the mighty Swinderbubble (included block leave!)
1985-86 L Tech AD training at the most missed Locking
1986-92 Spadeadam - great place. PMA lost me! Got time promotion as well!
1992-94 The most windy Saxa Vord.
1994-99 Buchan-sur-la-mer.
1999-2002 12SU Episkopi - sunny!
2002-05 Bentley Priory - was very quiet by then, but nice with it...
2005-07 Back to Spadeadam - yippee!
2007-now - the wonderful place that is Digby...

Done some tours down south at Alice and Kent, just one more at Byron to get the hat trick.

Loving TG4 - real good fun!:PDT_Xtremez_42: BTW can anyone tell me how I now tell the difference between a techie and a peanut. They're all wearing the same badges, they've all got the same size wallet... I notice we've all got that glazed look as well...:PDT_Xtremez_35:

Nice to be here. Will keep taking the tablets! :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
Old school TC

Old school TC

Hi, An old school TC checking in...

L Mech TC, L Tech TC, Eng Tech EL, CIS Tech, ICT (Systems) Tech and now ICT Tech, who knows what they'll call the trade tomorrow?

One dead cert though, once a TC always a TC!


TG3 Fairy.
 
Joined as an L Tech AF got changed to Eng Tech EL then EL Tech then to what ever we are calling ourselves today. Will allway consider myself a tech. Got another 2 years to do and that will be it fed up of this down skilling of this trade!!
DAF 91A
DAF 95
Lyneham
TCW
Cosford
Dets to numerous to list.
 
Tacanman said:
Joined as an L Tech AF got changed to Eng Tech EL then EL Tech then to what ever we are calling ourselves today. Will allway consider myself a tech. Got another 2 years to do and that will be it fed up of this down skilling of this trade!!
DAF 91A
DAF 95
Lyneham
TCW
Cosford
Dets to numerous to list.
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Its TOO numerous to list... you've done 8 years at Hotel Del Cosford instructing and had 1 DWR in all that time so don't try and pull someones heart strings Spoons !!!:PDT_Xtremez_25:
 
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