Wobbly

[Stretchadams]

Ok

91 Swinderby
91 Halton
92 TWCU Honington
94 SAOEU Boscombe Down
98 230 Aldergrove
2000 VAHS St Mawgan
2003 RAFAT Scampton
2005 2(AC) Marham
2007 MWS Culdrose

A/C Types

Tornado
Harrier
Jaguar
Puma
Chinook
Sea King
Hawk
Merlin

Plus loads of VAHS stuff!

 

[shoutingwind]

i'm only a baby:
Joined in 2002, after Cosford (Last course of sumpies to pass out of No1. School of Tech Training) I got posted to Lyneham...
Then last year I left, was a Miss for a little while and now i'm in the RNZAF

 

[Itcameoffinmehandchief]

Quick potted history:

Summer 1989 Basic Training Raf Swinderby
Aug 89 - Jun 90 Trade Training Raf Cosford (AV Mech)
Jun 90- Aug 91 Raf Finningley Dominie Line Flight
Aug 91 - Jan 96 Raf Leeming (Tornado F3)
Feb 96-Jul 97 FT Course Cosford
Jul 97 - Sept 2001 Raf Lossiemouth (Sea King)
Sept 2001 - Mar 2006 Raf Coningsby/Leuchars (Tornado F3)
Mar 06- Present day Civvie Street

 

[fileeth]

Been on here ages but thougth i'd best give a little history of myself.

Oct - Dec 1985 - Swinderby, basic training.
Dec 1985 - Dec 1988 - Halton, trade training, one of trenchard's brats.
Dec 1988 - Sept 1999 - BLSS - 'F shift' - good times and saw the world (and some)
Sep 1999 - Dec 1999 - St Athan (specialist training course)
Dec 1999 - Aug 2004 - Kinloss.
Aug 2004 - Jun 2009 - St Athan (specialist HQ role)
Jun 2009 - present - Civvie working on the power stations of a well known company/brand.

 

[Jaffacake]

Intro

Intro

Well, hi, I don't normally join these things but when I saw E Goat it looked like a friendly enough environment to vent the spleen! I joined in 1987 and have run the full gammut of roles. Started in ranks, then commissioned. Haven't looked back. THe thing I love the most is knowing how much I can do for the boys and girls. That is a massive plus to working in both areas. I know what alot of people think of officers but the troops come first in my book.
That's it for now, oh, how do I get to chat on this forum?

Thanks
Jaffacake

 

[Erk]

Hi All. Joined in '76 as L Mech GC and after 8 weeks TT at Locking went to Machrihanish for 20 months. '78 saw me at 33SU Ayios Nikolaos Cyprus for a year then it was back to Locking for fitters course till Oct '80.

1001SU Oakhanger was next, as a J/T on Satcom, for a couple of years before moving up to Croughton in Oxfordshire to work with the Yanks on their Satcom terminal. Got my tapes in '83 and in 1985 it was back to Cyprus, 12SU Episkopi HF Receivers Site this time, for two and a half years. Returned to the UK in '88 and spent six months at Cosford as NCO IC GRSF before getting my third.

Back into Satcom at Oakhanger for the next four years but flying satellites this time as a Spacecraft Operations Assistant (SOA). Met my lovely wife Tricia in 1990 and we married in 1992 just before my posting to NATO PWHQ Erwin in southern Germany. Only did 18 months there, working on the IVSN telephone switch, before they closed the bunker but I managed to wangle a posting to NATO HQ in Brussels in '94 working on the IVSN development switch.

Returned to UK in 1996 as a technical instructor at Locking and, when Locking closed in 1999, moved to Cosford with the school. Put my papers in at the same time and was demobbed in 2001.

Since leaving the service I have worked as a technical lecturer with Siemens but decided to retire properly last year in order to travel Europe in a 34' American motorhome.

That was a bit of a tome, sorry about that. Wake up now it's finished!

 

[bill2b]

My Turn
Joined 77, Swinders and Halton A mech A

Lossie 78/82 Tyre / Hyd bay (Shackletons, Gannets, Whirlwinds, Hunters, Jags)
Jag ASF (Jags !)
226 OCU (Ditto)
Fitters course
Halton 82 AAF think it might have been 99 but not sure, had a few beers since then,
(always in trouble there, charged on my last day for not sweeping carpet)

St Athan 83 3 Sqn Harriers (12 hour shifts mon to wed 8 till 5 Thu Fri, Horrible place)

Laarbruch 84/87 Tornado ASF taught to drink Lager

Cottesmore 87/89 Tornado ASF

Bruggen 89/91 31 Sqn (Inc GW1 in Dharan) enjoyed this tour I think

Marham 91/95 Tornado ASF I was fairly confident on Tornados by now.

Waddington 95/01 EWAD, then Tyre and Hyd bay till I left having reached the giddy rank of Cpl !
(well I got there quickly enough but I obviously peaked early lol)

 

[Stevienics]

St Athan 83 3 Sqn Harriers (12 hour shifts mon to wed 8 till 5 Thu Fri, Horrible place)

That was no accident of need. That was because the OC Flight was a complete and utter wakner who should NEVER have gotten to wore the uniform, let alone dictate to the specialists how long it takes to boil his eggs. If I state that I hope he is unemployed and wondering why his career faltered somewhere, it is just pipe dreaming on my part.

I so hope he gets to read this site. There are few people who deserve such an accolade; he is one.

 

[Kryten]

Thought I'd add mine as well:

Joined Dec 1989 - RAF Swinderby (3 Sqn 17 Flt)
Feb-Mar 1990 - JSPI RAF Wyton (trade training)
Mar 1990 - May 1992 - RAF Brampton - including a 4 monther at RIC(NI) RAF Aldergrove
May 1992 - May 1994 - RIC(NI) RAF Aldergrove - best 2 years of my career!
May 1994 - Oct 2000 - II(AC) Sqn RIC RAF Marham; including a 4 monther to Dharan, some minor skirmishes in the Balkans, promotion training at Wyton and many, many squadron dets
Oct 2000 - April 2002 - RAF Brampton, including a lovely 4 monther in Eskan/PSAB - worst tour ever...
April 2002-Aug 2004 - RAF Marham - TIW - working in support of 39 Sqn and their Bat Wing Angels of Death...included a deployment to some highly secretive locations complete with bad weather and rotten food...
Aug 2004 - Aug 2005 - RAF Honington - Station Int Flight...great station
Aug 2005 - PVR and join a well known defence contractor somewhere up in the north-west...

 

[bill2b]

That was no accident of need. That was because the OC Flight was a complete and utter wakner who should NEVER have gotten to wore the uniform, let alone dictate to the specialists how long it takes to boil his eggs. If I state that I hope he is unemployed and wondering why his career faltered somewhere, it is just pipe dreaming on my part.

I so hope he gets to read this site. There are few people who deserve such an accolade; he is one.

I remember we were all kept behind at hometime because someone had written on the bog walls DT_Xtremez_31:
A far cry from my boss at Laarbruch ASF who got to know his troops from Trap 1,2 and 3
top geezer
DT_Xtremez_30: