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18 Flt Nov 83. Cpl Mc ......ly top bloke, never understood one word of command he gave ... the strongest NI accent I`ve ever heard ... ( and I can understand Geordies ! )
 
Dave-exfairy said:
When did you join up Ranger? They were still using 95% of those images in the booklet I had when I joined up in 1991.
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Was there in Jan 91 Dave, we planned to do a 4 ton truck pull for our charity thing but it snowed that heavily that we did a sponsored snowman build then spent 20 mins kicking fcuk out of them.....
 
There was a phrase in the book that I still remember to this day...

"Spend your evenings relaxing in the newcomers club":PDT_Xtremez_35:

I think that may well be considered false advertising in this day and age!
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I saw the inside of the newcomers club twice, and one of those was the leaving do!
 
Was there Dec 87, Does anyone still have the video of their pass out parade. All I can remember is some dodgy looking padre in his robes mincing into view and the crappiest chipmunk flypast.

Happy days
 
My parents still have my pass-out video; I think they still show it to people. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Our Flt Cdr screwed it all up and halted about 20ft past the mark. Half of us went with her and the other half halted where they were supposed to. QCS we weren't.

We were supposed to have a flypast by Buccaneers but there was a leaf on the runway at Lossie or something so they couldn't take off. :raf:
 
Parents have the video of my pass-out parade, in fact the old man has had it transferred to DVD now to keep for prosperity...







mind you Mummy’s little soldier did get one of the awards so took centre stage in the video, oh how things changed quickly when I got to Trade training...
 
Passed out from Swinlitz in Nov '79, in the days when members of the Waafery did their basic at Hereford. A gloriously foggy day, :PDT_Xtremez_42: where we heard a flypast of some JPs, then again it might just have been a tape recording. :PDT_Xtremez_35:

We were the last course to live in the old wooden huts on the right as you came through the gate onto the accommodation site. It was a good feeling to walk through them in outside footwear after we'd finished the parade. :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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I joined up 1991 at the tender age of 17 all quiet and shy!!! My Sgt was Sgt Wilk*****, he was a scary man. My first night there I phoned my dad up begging to come home. Loadsa people said i wouldnt last five minutes............................ here I still am!:PDT_Xtremez_35:
 
the waafs were ate Spitalgate when I joined.

Oddly enough I did my spacey gliding course at Spitalgate, the place was fcuking magic 100s of 18-21 year olds and very few eligible males.
 
There were stinkies at Swinderby when I went through in Aug 86. Place was full of them, in the block behind mine.
 
Scottow Horseshoe said:
..........Some poor Rock Ape karked it while I was there I remember....something to do with a HUGE case of Swinderby cough becoming Pneumonia...:raf:
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I have a vague memory of that happening but can't remember whether it happened when I was there (Jan '80 - Mar '80) or just after I left; he collapsed on the run around the airfield I think. Bloody Swinderby Cough... almost got back-coursed 'cos of that, I was so dosed up on anti-biotics and drugs that I still don't remember my pass out parade :PDT_Xtremez_40:.
 
It's justa dim and distant blur for me.

I do remember having the block job of polishing the stairwell, spending hours doing it then, as I slept.....several dozen baby Rocks who were billeted on the floor above running over my hard work in muddy DMS boots.....cue early morning boll*cking for AC 3Chord...

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wolfy said:
I remember that from 79, 17 Flt. God I feel old now.
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Your going to feel even older when I tell you that was the year I was born in, and that I have just left the RAF after doing 12 years.:PDT_Xtremez_26:
 
Careful there old timer, I don't want you to get all excited and brake your hip!!!

The next time I go home and I will have to try and dig out some of the old booklets that my grandad had from when he was in the forces during the war. (I think he served the same time as Gem)
 
Welcome to Swinderby my arSe. When I joined in 76 the booklet was called 'This is Swinderby' The DIs made it clear you were not welcome.
 
Bitburger said:
Welcome to Swinderby my arSe. When I joined in 76 the booklet was called 'This is Swinderby' The DIs made it clear you were not welcome.
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Thats the one I remember from '75 - along with seeing some lad in the flight before us being dragged up the road after fainting on parade (it was bl00dy hot) and sticking his SLR bayonet through his chin and out under his tongue! Being dragged didn't help his best shoes either - bummer! :)
 
Buster123 said:
Was there Dec 87, Does anyone still have the video of their pass out parade. All I can remember is some dodgy looking padre in his robes mincing into view and the crappiest chipmunk flypast.

Happy days
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Still got a copy at my parents....I forgot about that as well. I'll dust the video player for a trip down memory lane.:PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
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