The Best and Worst Postings in the RAF

[wayoutwest]

hi all. as an airman in the raaf i just wondered what the best and worst postings in the RAF were in the 60s-70s-80 .you had bases around the world to chose from./

[bosnich71]

BEST .... Bruggen.
WORST ....32 MU. St.Athan.

[DeepestSouth]

We had no choice! There was an illusion of choice - in that you could express your wishes but in most cases they rarely had much effect. Sometimes you felt that the desk officers were 'avin' a larf. So - I asked for a posting anywhere North of Oxford - meaning not the South of England. So - I got Bicester just a few miles North of Oxford. Asked for overseas - got Northern Ireland.

Still - back on thread. Best posting - either Honington or Kinloss. Worst - there weren't any bad ones but a final tour as a staff officer and the promise of more staff tours to come persuaded me to exercise my option and leave.

Why Honington and Kinloss - the people, starting at the top with cracking staishs and all the way through to cracking aircrew, NCOs, airmen and civvy staff, everyone working flippin' hard to support the aircrew and aircraft. Made it fun and all worthwhile.

[newt]

BEST..............Gutersloh

WORST..................MOD Main Building

MOST REWARDING AND FUN............TWU Brawdy:ok:

[Lightning Mate]

'tag Newt.....

[goudie]

Worst.... Scampton

Best...RMAF Kuala Lumpur, on secondment.

[MPN11]

BEST ... RAF Tengah

WORST ... MoD Main Building

In fact, after a posting succession that went HQ 11 Gp > MB > HQ NATS > MB > HQ MATO I decided I would probably never see an aircraft or airfield again. I turned the lights out when I left, but someone turned them back on again.

[Pontius Navigator]

Best Cottesmore, great mess life and a walk across the fields, passed the staish's house, to the pub.

Worst when everywhere was behind barbed wire.

[brakedwell]

Worst - KHORMAKSAR :*

Best - Benson

[Wyler]

Best - Falklands Islands accompanied tour.

Worst - High Wycombe Bunker.

[AARON O'DICKYDIDO]

I enjoyed all my postings/long term detachments; Cottesmore, Tengah, Khormaksar, Lyneham, St Athan, Episkopi, Bicester, Abingdon, Odiham, Belize, Gutersloh and Wyton. (Plus umpteen other short term detachments). Some were better than others but with enough effort all were enjoyable in their own right. I made friends that were to stand the test of time.
If pushed I would say that Episkopi was the best overseas and Bicester was the best UK. The overseas postings depended largely on what rank I was as money was an important factor. If I had been other than an LAC/SAC at Tengah I would have enjoyed that a lot more. I tried to make the most of where ever I was with the money that was available to me. They were great times - now just great memories.


Aaron.

[MPN11]

They were great times - now just great memories.

At least some of us 'older members' had the opportunity to go places and get memories, unlike today's RAF!! :cool:

[Four Types]

Best - Aberporth. I was Senior RAF Officer West Wales and military advisor to the Mayor of Cardigan. Best of all I reached the pinnacle of my career...I was the first man in the RAF Phone Book ....'Aberporth - Officer Commanding':).

Worst - the 2 occasions when I was student on the OCU at Coningsby even though I passed both courses!:ugh::=

[melmothtw]

As a dependent back in the late '80s, I'd have to say that Bruggen was far and away the best.

[Shack37]

Best....Ballykelly for the same reasons DS gives for Kinloss.
Worst..Khormaksar, hard to know where to start?

[Pontius Navigator]

Aaron, yes, Dets and flag stops could be interesting too. Guam as the Vietnam War ramped up was interesting as was Hawaii for entirely different reasons.

[Sandy Parts]

Best - as a 'scaley brat' (dependant) - Bruggen - all you needed as a kid was inside the wire including the world's best 'adventure playground' that was Hill60!
As serving - Kinloss (but then again I only did Kinloss and Waddo :}).
Worst - Seeb/Basrah/PSAB - not really 'postings' but spent enough time in all 3 to feel like they were! (I know, I know, "hot food, welfare, aircon etc etc while others were 'digging in' ;)")
As 3rd generation RAF, it does seem amazing how much the 'estate' has shrunk since the end of WWII.
Still, it is our job as old gits to bang on about how good it was, otherwise what will the guys of today have to roll their eyes about? (Like we used to at the last generation of old gits...)

[SASless]

Port Harcourt, Nigeria without any doubt whatsoever!

[NutLoose]

Best Bruggen and Brize
other I enjoyed Odiham
Worst Halton

Best Detachment Jever (several times) Gibralter, Deci ( I know, someone who actually liked the place)

Worst Detachment some bl**dy wood in deepest Surrey with a tent and a Landrover.

[syncro_single]

Best positing
RAF Lossiemouth 208 Sqn, straight from training onto the best Bucc Sqn, stayed there until the Bucc went out of service. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Worst Posting
Abbey Wood Bristol. Nice area, just a weird place to work. :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: :confused:

[ImageGear]

Best: Thorney Island "70s"
Worst: Bawtry

Applied for: Changi, Kai Tak (3 year tours)
Got: El Adem (2 years solitary)

Imagegear

[goudie]

Don't know if they still occur, but if you were lucky enough, 'Jollies' were also a feature of RAF life of yesteryear.

Whilst on 617 sqdn I was one of the goundcrew to support a Vulcan that was invited to participate in the airshow at the opening of Basle airport. We were given VIP treatment by the Swiss and of course the Vulcan stole the show, in spite of the likes of the USAF Skyblazers flying Supersabres.

My best one was with 32 Sqdn at Akrotiri. The Sqdn was chosen to do the fly past over the National Stadium when Nyasaland was given independence and became Malawi, in 1964. I was one of 4 cpls who flew in the 4 Canberras down to Chileka airport, just outside Blantyre, where we stayed with ex-pats during our time there. Needless to say we did plenty of socialising and sightseeing during the course of our two weeks away.
Happy days!
Apologies for 'banging on' about the old days;)

[Tashengurt]

The worst; Leuchars. Arriving there as a naive 17 yo LAC it was an intimidating and lonely place to be. Sharing a two man room amongst five, bunk beds and all just made it worse.
Best; Leuchars. As I settled in and matured it was a great busy place with excellent sports opportunities and a lovely area. The locals could be very friendly too!


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[Union Jack]

If you've got some time on your hands, Wayoutwest, you may care to have a look at the following:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/321144-raf-stations-past-present-biggest-best-bonnieist.html

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/509508-bastards-closed-all-best-bases.html

and this one one appears to be a hot favourite

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/305398-gutersloh-mid-70s.html

Over to you!:ok:

Jack

PS I always like landing at Richmond:)

[ian16th]

I was luckier than most, so:

Best: RAF Liaison Party Istres/Orange. I was on the unit when it moved.

Also very good an accompanied tour at Akrotiri.

Worst: Any of the 3 winters that I spent at Yatesbury.

[Shiny10]

On returning from a tour in Cyprus I dutifully filled in my preferences form:

Negative area of choice ----------------Scotland

Negative type of employment --------Fighter Aircraft

I was duly posted to RAF Northolt. Nine months later I found myself on 111 Sqn (Phantoms) at RAF Leuchars . I did laugh.

Many years later I was posted to Gutersloh at which I complained bitterly to be told that I had volunteered for the posting 14 years previously. :ugh:
Great tour though.

[Cows getting bigger]

Best - Gutersloh (mid-80s)
Worst - Northolt (early 00s)

[1.3VStall]

Best - Guetersloh in the '70s before the bona mates" arrived.
Worst - MoD London

(I seem to agree with Newt on this one!).

[jayteeto]

Best: Sealand

Worst: Sealand

The social life for an 18yr old newly qualified and minted J/T was outstanding. The work was highly skilled, but boring beyond belief.

[Herod]

Best. UN detachment (3 months) Nicosia. Best station; Thorney Island mid 70s.
Worst. Khormaksar; but some really good flying.

[Robert Cooper]

Best: RAF Seletar, Singapore, mid 60s
Worst: Christmas Island, Pacific, late 50s

Bob C

[The Oberon]

No contest.

Best, RAF(U) Goose Bay.
Worst, Waddington, spending 3 years waiting for the AEW3.

[smujsmith]

My best tour, by far, was Lyneham October 87 to September 97. Including 6 years as an Aircraft Ground Engineer, where I spent something like 270 days a year "down route". Second best has to be Colerne March 71 to June 73, my first posting from Apprentice training at Halton and my introduction to the wonderful "Albert". I don't think I have a worst, I just made the best I could of wherever I went. Always some great people around, of all ranks and trades.

Smudge :ok:

[NutLoose]

Worst, Waddington, spending 3 years waiting for the AEW3.

And you could have still been waiting :ok:

[Jet In Vitro]

Best RAF St Mawgan.

Worst.....none. I enjoyed them all.

Waddington was/ is very disappointing. No spirit like many stations but not a bad place.

[nimbev]

Best............ RAF Thorney Island in the 60s and early 70s

Enjoyed all the others really, shame they have all been closed or given to the Army! If I had to chose ...........

Worse........ Depends on your job but either MOD Main Bldg or Muharraq in mid 60s

[AGS Man]

Best Akrotiri
Best UK Wattisham
Worst Honington
Best Det Chivenor
Worst Det Valley

[BBadanov]

BEST - Laarbruch and Lossie (1980s)

WORST - didn't have one, only in RAF for 8 great years

:ok:

[The Oberon]

Nutty,

The last 18 months were the worst as I had seen the signs and PVR'd. It arrived just before I left and was cancelled a few months later.

[ArthurR]

Best RAF Valley (MR) & RAF Scampton (617sqn)

Worst RAF Sealand

I even thought Khormaksar was better than Sealand.

[dallas]

Best: Goose Bay: captive audience living it to the full.

Worst: Leeming: remote, characterless and full of disinterested SNCOs from the NE on last tours.

[Janda]

My best memories of the RAF were during training at RAF Topcliffe, then first squadron at Kinloss followed by 3 years at Lyneham Herc Sim. Second squadron 8 AEW at Lossiemouth followed by a great 3 years on a punishment posting to Spadeadam as the EWO. Another tour at Lyneham before final 2 1/2 years on 360 at Wyton.

Worst memory final pay slip after leaving the RAF. 24 great years where you took the rough with the smooth.

[denachtenmai]

Best "overseas ;)" Ballykelly (204 Squadron natch!)

Best mainland, Wyton in the 60's 70's.

Best Det. Majunga, aaaah Madam Chabeau's and Trois Chevaux beer :ok:
Regards, Den.

[TurbineTooHot]

Best for me was NFTC in RCAF Cold Lake. Amazing mix of folk and our student houses!

Yet to have a shocker but not counting my chickens yet!

[Al Cobarr]

Best: Bruggen

Worst: Marham

[Lightning5]

RAF Tengah twice !! 60 Sqn 60 to 62 and back with the 74 th 67 to 69. The first was best, single guy, happy memories!

[Dave Wilson]

Best: Cosford

Worst: Binbrook.

Best Dets: Oerland, Aviano.

Worst: None really, Falklands could have done with being shorter but heyho, you sign on the dotted.

[Gunjiyubin]

Port Harcourt??? What in Hell's name were you doing in Port Harcourt? I speak/write as someone who joined Marconi after leaving the RAF in 1959 (yes, I'm getting on a bit) and was sent to Warri in the Niger Delta. What a bloody awful place. Mind you, Nicosia Transit was probably worse whenever we went through ferrying and flying 47 and 53 Sqdn Beverleys. See - I said I was getting on a bit.

[sharpend]

Best has got to be Akrotiri in the late 60s. Pity I was young and stupid and did not appreciate it enough.

Worst? Difficult to say as they were all great in their own way.

[BEagle]

Best? Sunny Scampton in the late 1970s.

Second best? Chivenor when Blunty (aka sharpend) was there! How's the book going?

Worst? 237 OCU at Honington as a student Buccaneer pilot, without a shadow of a doubt.

[sharpend]

Beagle I have now written 101 pages and 97,000 words. Trouble is I'm too busy flying and dreaming up more war stories :ugh:

But I agree with you, Chivenor was Tops, but spoilt only by a rather unsupportive partner.

[TheNightOwl]

Worst: Finningley, two tours, developed an undying hatred for FY and the benighted area!

Best: Luqa, 13Sqn, detachments all over the world, magic PR9s, God bless 'em.

Cheers,

TNO. :ok:

[Arfur Dent]

Best: Gutersloh in the '70s AFTER the bona-mates arrived
Worst: No such thing really - all good.:ok:

[Al R]

Best, Akrotiri in the 80s. That is all.

[langleybaston]

from an RAF attached Metperson's viewpoint:

Best Guetersloh, with Nicosia 1961-64 close behind.

Worst [which I avoided by the skin of my teeth] was Ocean Weather Ships, converted corvettes, scarcely seaworthy, manned by reprobates and piss-artists, very little work to do, food dreadful etc.
One only had to meet the weather ship people to realise what pondlife they were. I was posted so played every card I had. Fortunately I was PA and gopher to a very senior officer who discovered that he could not afford to lose me to the ocean deep.

Phewww!

[oldpax]

Best- Ballykelly !Yes I know it was wet there but it was a great station for socializing and good mates,especially 204 sqdn!!
Worst-well Khormaksar for a start especially if on 8 sqdn all work and no days of ,well not till 43 sqdn turned up to help us.Special word to say about the airmens mess at Muharraq which was not air conned (same Ksar ) and was an awful place to eat .Never wanted to see the mid east again ,different when a civvy though!!

[Shack37]

Best- Ballykelly !Yes I know it was wet there but it was a great station for socializing and good mates,especially 204 sqdn!!
Worst-well Khormaksar for a start especially if on 8 sqdn all work and no ds ayof ,well not till 43 sqdn turned up to help us.Special word to say about the airmens mess at Muharraq which was not air conned (same Ksar ) and was an awful place to eat .Never wanted to see the mid east again ,different when a civvy though!!

When I was at K´sar on 37 they used to say "It´s great on eight"

Agree on best and worst postings though as per post 15.

[John Purdey]

Night Owl. I agree very stronly with you on Luqa, but then I was the Staish!!

[BEagle]

Coningsby was pretty dire when your mate Ba$tard Bill was the Stn Cdr, JP...:uhoh:

[Jumping_Jack]

Best Akrotiri (early 90's)
Worst (by far) MOD Main Building

[smujsmith]

My best has to be Akrotiri, early 70s despite Coul de tats and unaccompanied tours. The people I had the honour to work with made it bearable. The worst, a tour in Scotland with a WO who was having some "personal problems", and decided it was my fault "Mull of Kintyre" indeed.

Smudge

[bill2b]

Best
Lossiemouth (like BFG but without LOA)
Laarbruch
Cottesmore
Bruggen
Marham
Waddington


Worst
Swinderby
Halton
St Athan

[Rosevidney1]

Moaning about Khormaksar? It was bloody luxurious compared with Falaise Field near Little Aden which was the Army base where the AAC operated Beavers and Scouts along with the Sioux Air Troops. The stench from the oil refinery was unpleasant and continuous.

[Shack37]

Moaning about Khormaksar? It was bloody luxurious compared with Falaise Field near Little Aden which was the Army base where the AAC operated Beavers and Scouts along with the Sioux Air Troops. The stench from the oil refinery was unpleasant and continuous


You lucky barsteward, we had cardboard boxes as billets WITHOUT air conditioning. We would have given our eye teeth for a refinery to smell:E

[Force For Good]

Best: Anything pre SDSR 2010

Worst: Everything post SDSR 2010

[oldpax]

my first weekends there were a bit of a surprise to me when on the Saturday night there was a power cut and the camp went mad ,fires all over etc and the NAAFI full of very irate drunks !RAF police turned up to restore order but were driven of and their land rover er damaged a little .Happened again the following week after which the groupie had the station on parade on sunday and read out how it was going to be!I was on guard duty the second wkend and as the fires were lit was told to go(with others)and sort it out!!"You have to be joking !"so we shuffled of and watched as furniture and anything that would burn was lit.The old accommodation blocks had great cracks in the walls which you could repair with mash from the mess which set hard ,oh yes the bedbugs would climb the walls and drop on your bed as usually the bed legs were stood in tins of water!Eating in 30degs plus was not pleasant but on the whole it was better than Muharraq where the mess walls were stained by people throwing their meals at them in disgust!!Khormaksar also housed the army despatchers(?)in the block opposite me .Eventually I obtained a bed in Hunter block which was air conditioned and was sheer luxury!!

[Vendee]

Best:- Abingdon. My first posting out of training in 76. Sleepy little hollow. No barbed wire, no exercises and we all wore blue. Local area was very nice. Met my missus there but won't mark it down for that ;)
My two tours at Laarbruch come close second.

Worst:- Marham. Was there as serviceman and later as a civvy. Its got nothing to commend it IMHO.

[Old-Duffer]

Best UK: Tern Hill (both times) - best overseas: Kai Tak


Worst UK: MOD London (all four tours in equal measure) - worst overseas: Kuantan.


O-D

[Q-RTF-X]

Best – Akrotiri early 60’s (18 months of which was on transit servicing) and again early 70’s (Frightening 1st line – loved it) and also Masirah (between Akrotiri tours). In the UK, Valley (Missile Practice Camp)


Less enjoyable - Scampton

[Finningley Boy]

For me it's a toss up between Ramstein (actually billeted at Neubrucke then Birkenfeld to be near SWHQ) and Portreath (actually billeted at St Mawgan because of lack of accommodation at Portreath/Nancy Cuke!):ok:

FB:)

[cuefaye]

Best, in no order --


Khormaksar
Chivenor
Muharraq
Valley
Honington
Canberra
Bawtry


Worst


MoD Main Building

[Deepest Norfolk]

Best: - Ops Lyneham and Ops 39 Sqn (1PRU) Marham

Worst: - Scatcc and Eastern Radar

DN

[4mastacker]

I reckon the best was a little gem on the Suffolk coast - a posting that was usually outside the posting choices for the folks who flew or maintained the flying machines. I give you RAF Bawdsey.

[dkh51250]

Worst Honington in the early 70s when some guy called B*****o was running the show, from my point of view not very well. Undervalued, undermotivated guys who got no support from the man at the top.


Best Waddington mid 60s to early 70s, what a place to have a misspent youth. Perhaps all those good staishes ruined me when put alongside B*****o

[Barksdale Boy]

dkh51250


I agree. Boots, Mike and Des were three of the best.

[kaitakbowler]

Best.Ternhill, I was the last orderly Cpl, Market Drayton Plod delivered a slab of ale at 0200 to "celebrate". Keys to Securicor? in the morning.

Worst. St Athan.

Best overseas - Kai Tak/Sek Kong

[pbk]

Best........... Thorney Island, such a holiday camp just didnt know it: Still nice to see the sailing club at reunion time every year along with Big E. Wonder what happened to Imshee?

Waddo, Line Sqdn was full of outstanding characters, it was almost anarchic yet the work still got done. proud to be a PIG. Best C.O. in Des. Met 2nd wife.

All of the Med postings looked great, many happy weeks at Akrotiri, Luqa, also Tengha; never applied so my own fault.
Valley was a great place, good Mess life but STCAAME wasnt my bag and a trip to Chester for a posh frock for Mess do's' was a pain. Best SWO in Danny McArthy
Lyneham. Loved being on the line but could never hack 4 on 4 off; 6442 invariably said ' looses interest after midnight'.............

Worst
Cosford, (met 1st wife and Bob Fuller)
Sealand, terminally boring stripping and rebuilding C12 and MD1 gyros for 3 yrs in cleanroom conditions.
Scampton, late 70s altho' got red flag out of it. How could it be so different to Waddo.
Marham

[Kerosene Kraut]

How about RAF Gatow?
Must have been quite interesting with the Chipmunk flights for BRIXMIS and everything back then?

[Exascot]

Northholt, Benson and Brize all great including many 5 star hotel rooms down the route :E

Next offered was a mahogany bomber at MoD. Opted for Gatwick which was not so great but a fantastic airline.

[philrigger]

Eventually I obtained a bed in Hunter block which was air conditioned and was sheer luxury!!

Obviously you were not in my room in Hunter block. The air conditioning rarely ever worked.


philrigger.

[oldpax]

I moved there probably mid 1962,it was fairly new then .Before that in the old blocks .Most of the people working on sqdns worked long hours and 8 was no exception covering the Radfan so not much time off .Best memories are days at conquest bay with a cheap mask and snorkel!Worst being on earlies and staying to fix snags so we would enough kites for the next day.Still I was young and fit !

[Torchy]

Best: Gan
Worst, without any doubt whatsoever: Marham

[Tankertrashnav]

Best - Kai Tak - for a 21 year old bachelor, being in Hong Kong was like being a kid in a sweet shop.

Worst - Kai Tak. I'd moved from being in charge (nominally!) of an 80 man fire section at Seletar. Heady stuff for a 20 year old. Now I had a sergeant and a corporal and an ill-defined role on a small station, and a station commander who saw I had little to do and commandeered me as his unofficial PA.

Surprised how often Marham is mentioned in the "worst" category. I had almost six very happy years there, and even after 35 years in Cornwall I still hanker after moving back to Norfolk.

[middlesbrough]

Best: Changi 205 sqn and Mardet Majunga.
Least enjoyable: Lyneham

[denachtenmai]

middlesbrough
Camp Britanique Majunga :ok:
Regards, Den.

[Phoney Tony]

Best RAF Biggin Hill
Worst RAF Benson

[polyglory]

Best RAAF Butterworth in the Sixties

Worst RAF West Drayton in the Eighties.

[taffyhammer]

Best
1. Laarbruch 95-99
2. Laarbruch 85-88

Worst
St Athan 88-94 nuff said!!

[smujsmith]

I've just reread the whole thread and have to come to the conclusion, despite my own post, that there is no such thing as the best or worst posting in the RAF. None of us have served in a sufficient quantity to make that judgement, what we do is pontificate our own preferences. I never served at Coltishall, but someone who did will rate it very highly I suspect, and who am I to judge. It sounds a bit corny I suppose, but perhaps to have served is reward enough, and rough with smooth, the job not the place was the reward.

Smudge:ok:

[Old-Duffer]

Smudge,


I take your point but would add 'people' to 'job'.


During my time I made many acquaintances but just a few long lasting friendships. What I did find, however, is that when these acquaintances resurfaced, the conversation started again where it left off 'X' years before.


That said, about 15 years ago I got back with a group of guys from my early years and now we are all more stable, those acquaintanceships have developed into the long lasting friendships I bemoaned above.


I have often said that there were some people I really liked, some I liked, some I tolerated, a few I preferred to avoid, several I actively disliked but only one I f%^&$£d hated. As that individual is similarly regarded by several people whose judgement I trust - perhaps my unworthy thoughts were actually right!!!


Old Duffer

[goudie]

these acquaintances resurfaced, the conversation started again where it left off Through this forum and via his son, I was able to get in contact with an old colleague from 44 yrs ago. Mrs G and I went to visit them last Tuesday and spent some very pleasant hours discussing our lives at that time (it was an excellent posting to the RMAF). Our joint memory power was able to just about re-call all the good times we had and other people we knew.
You can't put a price on that sort of thing

[DON T]

Strangely, mine would have been at #82, #83 and #84, Kaitak in 1966 and 1972-74, after Changi in 1967-69 was great. Visiting Gan every two months for two weeks from Kaitak was even better.


Went on a holiday to Gan this year. Stayed in what was the Sgts Mess. In two weeks we were there we two of 15 guests. Heaven.


The worst place was, didn't have one.

[uffington sb]

Best RAF Gan.
Worst none.

I went back in 2000 and stayed in the Equator Village, the former W.O's and Sergeant's mess. Just a couple of Germans and the occasional Antonov crew. Heaven!!!!!

[TomJoad]

I've just reread the whole thread and have to come to the conclusion, despite my own post, that there is no such thing as the best or worst posting in the RAF. None of us have served in a sufficient quantity to make that judgement, what we do is pontificate our own preferences. I never served at Coltishall, but someone who did will rate it very highly I suspect, and who am I to judge. It sounds a bit corny I suppose, but perhaps to have served is reward enough, and rough with smooth, the job not the place was the reward.

Smudge:ok:

Could not agree more with you there Smudge. For me it was always the people that you were working with that made it. Yes indeed, take the rough with the smooth that was what it was about. Having said that one place will always hold special memories, Lossiemouth - good people, worked hard, played hard, giggled a lot. Heart broken when I left, knowing I was unlikely ever to return

Tom

[reds & greens]

Best
1. Laarbruch 86-89
2. Bruggen 92-97
3. Bruggen 98-01

Worst
Wyton (handed in my tie, belt and shoe laces on arrival...)

[gopher01]

Best; Akrotiri late 60s early 70s two and a half years at the sailing club, great place, great people, great sailing and even the M.U. wasn't a bad place to work.

Worst Laarbruch; place was good, people were good, just that as a life long truckie working on an aircraft where the arse caught fire and no one came round with a cup of tea and a butty box wasn't for me.

[wingnutsdg]

Best for me Ballykelly and Kinloss, mainly because of the chance of some excellent detachments and the people, RAF and local. :ok:

I didn't mind Khormaksar (apart from the food) but it was nice to get detached to Sharjah. Best detachments were Majunga from Ballykelly and Changi from Kinloss. I would not have minded Masirah, Gan or Sharjah or any Singapore base as a posting from what I saw during detachments.

I never had a worst, but I would have hated St Athan! :eek:

[Shack37]

Originally posted by wingnutsdg


I didn't mind Khormaksar (apart from the food) but it was nice to get
detached to Sharjah.


Especially the spring butterfly hunt at 0600.;)

[OldnDaft]

Best:
1. Bruggen 89-92
2. Bruggen 95-98

Worst:
Not really had a poor tour anywhere, Spadeadam was a bit remote but camaraderie amongst the small living in cohort was excellent.

[BATCO]

Resuscitated, so I'd better get mine in before it goes into hibernation again.

Best:
1. Any one of the three tours on II Sqn RAF Regt
2. Swinderby. I mean that! Tour was only 6 months long and I met my wife there. These two factors are connected!
3. West Raynham. Fantastic spirit, son born there.

Worst:
3. STC, 'nuff said.
2. STC the second time.
1. MPA, except for the gym.

Batco

[reynoldsno1]

Best - Malta 74-48, though holding at Gatow for 6 months prior to that was pretty good ...:ok:
No worst :}

[thing]

Best: all of them apart from Binbrook.

Worst for work-Binbrook. Had the misfortune to be sent on a Red Top/Firestreak Q and spent three years working in a concrete box in the bomb dump. Having said that I was given an OMQ (as an NCO) at Manby which was an utterly brilliant place to bring up two young children.

Worst personal move: not buying the senior officer's MQ that came up for sale at Manby for 32K. :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Oddly enough, flew over Binbrook today and the most recognisable bit is...the bomb dump. It will haunt me until I cock my toes up.