Where is your spiritual RAF home?

[Former Albert Sooty]

Was on No. 7 flight at Halton between Oct-Dec 1996, then moved to Cosford to basic training on PM40, then a couple of years later attended my fitters course on ETP 51. DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[doc670]

Leuchars Uni.

Leuchars Uni.

Has to be Leuchars University of Life, its the place I learned about life anyway. Three tours from 72 - 87, great place. A lot of hard work but hard play definitely made up for it.
Leisure activities like SWO-dodgin, takin the p*** out of the matelots, jump-startin a Houchin, avoiding the Dundee Heavies at the NAAFI disco etc. really made it an education.

 

[BillyBunter]

aye Swinderby , cant mind the flight now i was on , im sure i have some badges and **** somewhere. All i know was 15th Jan 1991 the day i arrived and its the day GW1 started and i **** my brick wondering what i had done lol DT_Xtremez_17:

 

[matkat]

Swinderby Jun-Aug 76 but spiritual home is Leuchars, am I the oldest on here??

 

[gemarriott]

Swinderby Jun-Aug 76 but spiritual home is Leuchars, am I the oldest on here??

you are but a child compared with some. Not even in the odest top ten and about 3 years behind me.

Hu Jardon, Lamptramp, tinbasher, past engineering, captain slog among others still remember being issued button sticks, pyjamas ad towells.

 

[speccytechy]

Swinderby March 9113 Flt - had my interview on the day GW1 started and the day i went to swinders it finished but spiritual home will always be locking .

 

[S92]

Where is your spiritual RAF home?

Swinderby November 1970. And still in(1 year to go!)
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[it's-me-isn't-it]

Coltishall it was the best kept secret in the RAF and now it's gone. get the typhoon in there and send me home :0

 

[New Zealand Rigger]

Halton Sept 71 - Sept 73. 224 Entry (Airframes)

Started in Lightning block, then Meteor finishing up in Phantom.

Happy memories.

A couple of the DIs were

Cpl Schulz

Cpl Brick Holding

Great days.

I remember the whole of 2 Wing being paraded on the square because someone had put bleach in the NAAFI cleaner's kettle!! Haha

 

[El Pinko]

What's all this 1993 sh*t, never mind more time on leave than they have been in, i have spent more time on guard than they have been in.

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[docbombhead]

you are but a child compared with some. Not even in the odest top ten and about 3 years behind me.

Hu Jardon, Lamptramp, tinbasher, past engineering, captain slog among others still remember being issued button sticks, pyjamas ad towells.

Yeh but does national service count Gem ? Most of us are "willing" volunteers !!Fag for the Corporal !

 

[PingDit]

Swinderby November 1970. And still in(1 year to go!)
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You truly are an old git. You beat me by 5 months!

Ping

P.S. Does the camera mean you are now a 'flasher'?

 

[SCARECROW]

19 Flt at Swinditz on 27th Oct 1987.

First ever 19 Flt we were told at the time.

But I was a splitter so it has to be Halton all the way. Lord T would turn in his grave if I said anything otherwise!

Off Topic I was reading some archive stuff about Halton and apparently Lord T was the reviewing officer for the first Appo entry that passed out. He backcoursed the whole lot of them for not meeting his standards! Crack on!

never trust instructors, I was 19 flt 2 oct 85-21 nov !! my shiney block has
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best place ever was TTTE Cottesmore started drinking fri a'noon 430, staggered back to block 230am! and GAF Major ordered me to have a quick one! happy and very drunk days!

 

[S92]

You truly are an old git. You beat me by 5 months!

Ping

P.S. Does the camera mean you are now a 'flasher'?

If I only beat you by 5 months Ping, that's just got to make you an old git too!
And yes, the camera does make me an old flasher !
All I need now is a raincoat and I'm ready for anything!
But my wife won't let me out in the evenings (sorry, dear, your tea is nearly ready!)
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[Teh Wal]

Swinderby November 1970. And still in(1 year to go!)
Beat that you young pups!DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09: DT_Xtremez_09:

Wow, that's some going mate.
I said Wow, that's some... what? ...

Yes dear, Loverly weather for the time of year..Jeepers, he wiffs a bit..Martha??, yes, she'll be here this evening. What? Anyone related to this guy?? Oh dear, yes, just slip them off, there's a clean pair in the top drawer. Matron will see you to the ablutions! It's a shame isn't it. Sad to see 'em go this way.
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Swinditz was my birth canal (Jan 80). Spiritual home? Dunno to be honest. I loved Laarparts and I'm loving ISL (been here a loooooong time) but I'm a scaley brat and have always moved around from year 1... however I loved Valley (6 years of it) 'cos of the sea and the mountains and the fishing and the sea and the views and lots of other kack (I'm not from N Wales by the way) and it's one of the places I would consider moving to and have as my 'dying place' (Anglesey in general). So (in the face of much ridicule and cries of 'Heretic') I think it's gotta be Valley/Ynys Mon.

 

[Ex-Bay]

What about Cosford then?

What about Cosford then?

Lets hear it for 2 S of TT Cosford!

Ex-40th AWM

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There are about 3000 screws holding a wing tank on a Canberra . . . . . .

 

[mick-a-nick]

Was an "Appo" - Crap-Ap at Cosford - Internee of Fulton Block in Nov 1971 - 1973 but spiritual home must be Raf Catterick - 16 Sqn Raf Regt (Caribean Cloud Clouters) (Marne Barracks) as that was my first posting.

 

[Ex-Bay]

Where?

Where?

Radio School RAF Yatesbury.
I really enjoyed doing my Fitters there '63,'64).

We had one guy (from a foreign Air Force) who'd soldered all all the wires in a Plessey plug together in one unholy blob. On being asked about it, his reply was illuminating: "with cover on, nobody notice . . . . . ."

We had a Polish Squadron Leader who's famous quote was "You should all be above the Class average"

Oh happy days (untill JFK got knocked off).

Off Topic

And now I'm a boring old git who can't let go. . . . . . .

And it takes a lot of blokes, each with a screwdriver to remove the wing tank. . . .

 

[PD TC]

It has to be RAF Locking any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Don't know one person who went through training at Locking and didn't like it, (apart from maybe those that didn't see it out, for whatever reason)!!!

 

[dennis the menace]

Cosford, 38th entry, then lovely Yatesbury 62/3, digging cars out on the A4 when it snowed like hell during a particularly bad winterDT_Xtremez_17: but Wyton has to be my spiritual home, great when it was operationalDT_Xtremez_30:
regards to all,especially those still in and having to put up with the crap that I read about.