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So that was what it was like in the 50's, not much different in the 80's. I suppose its breakfast in bed these days......
So that was what it was like in the 50's, not much different in the 80's. I suppose its breakfast in bed these days......
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I watched that series before joining up 
1994-95 time having just left the Service I was working in resettlement and recruitment (remember "Opportunities" magazine) - country in recession and Phase 1 redundees being marketed by a sick making video under the title "Access to Excellence". My lectures to resettlement courses always reminded people leaving the services that by then virtually no civilian recruiter had service experience and what they knew of service people was gleaned from "The Navy Lark", "Ain't 'Alf 'Ot Mum" and "Get Some In", which was not hugely encouraging
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A real hoot of a series, and very reminiscent of my experience in the early 70s after a late 60s start at Halton. I think I managed to find the whole lot on YouTube, and SWMBO and myself enjoyed every episode. 
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Still quite watchable,
Written by the same gang as The Good Life!
Fag for the Corporal.. Light for the Corporal..
Written by the same gang as The Good Life!
Fag for the Corporal.. Light for the Corporal..
Fag for the Corporal.. Light for the Corporal..
Which reminds me of an exchange about ten years later in the RAF:
Army officer to Argosy FE: "I say, Staff Sergeant . . "
FE: "I'm a Flight Sergeant, Sir."
AO: "Ah, if you were in the Army you'd be a Staff Sergeant."
FE: "No, Sir, if I was in the Army, I'd be a Brigadier!"
Boom, boom!
I did a very foreign staff college a while back and one of the 'privileges' as the only English Speaker was to have access to the 'English Library'. The selection of books was clearly made in the 1950s and the selection of DVDs was horrendous. There was very poor and intermittent internet and TV was dreadful, with breaks for ahem, prayers, on a regular basis. Luckily I knew someone at the local British Consulate and they had a swapsie library of rather good books and a fair selection of DVDs - including a box set of Get Some In. I suppose I first saw the series some 30-35 years ago; I still remembered almost all the episodes and I credit these DVDs as helping to maintain my sanity. I particularly liked the 'I want to be a bandsman' episode - it reminded me of my predicament at this very foreign staff college!
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If you notice, for the first half of the studio scenes, Cpl Marsh (Tony Selby) has his web belt on upside down. It was pointed out by an ex serviceman in the audience and rectified for the rest of the show.
RAF Corporals; the backbone of the Service, well in my day anyway. In Lyneham Flight Planning there was a Corporal who ensured therein we lacked for nothing. When he was in Flight Planning that is. When he was away on leave it was immediately apparent, charts were no longer available, Low Level Route bookings hadn't been.
Their other great presence that I recall was at the Route Hotel Reception Desks where they allotted rooms without fear or favour. Only "real" Squadron Leaders were given Senior Officer accommodation, those who commanded VC-10's being sent off in the opposite direction with the rest of their crew...
Their other great presence that I recall was at the Route Hotel Reception Desks where they allotted rooms without fear or favour. Only "real" Squadron Leaders were given Senior Officer accommodation, those who commanded VC-10's being sent off in the opposite direction with the rest of their crew...
Wish I could remember the name of the Cpl Steward in the OM at Binbrook who astonished me in June 81 - 8.30/9pm, Part 1 Taceval (that had started 1230 pm, not middle of the night) had just Endexed, me and the Boss and several others in the bar. Boss was getting me two beers when I heard the phone ringing in reception so I answered it to find it was my brother who had been trying to get me since 2pm to say Mum had suffered a major stroke and I needed to get to Mt Vernon Hospital in Northwood. Went back to the bar, cancelled the beer and told the boss I would call him in the morning, and walked to the front door, to be stopped by the Cpl steward (whom I had not seen around until that point) who handed me a packet of sandwiches and wished me "Good Luck". I got to Mt Vernon at about midnight and Mum died about 10 minutes later. But I have never forgotten the kindness of that Cpl steward.
PS. Altered the Casualty Procedure too after that - it had all been geared to getting news of Service casualties out to families, but ignored problem of getting "family" info "inwards". All the time my brother had been trying to get me I was on the other side of the wall from the telephone exchange, but there was no"procedure" for incoming "domestic emergency" calls.
PS. Altered the Casualty Procedure too after that - it had all been geared to getting news of Service casualties out to families, but ignored problem of getting "family" info "inwards". All the time my brother had been trying to get me I was on the other side of the wall from the telephone exchange, but there was no"procedure" for incoming "domestic emergency" calls.
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Stitched the first half dozen episodes together and ran it for an afternoons entertainment for 20 odd members of the RAFA with a buffet lunch a few years ago. Average age of those present would have been at least seventy, and did they enjoy it.
I was a few years later joining in 1960, and so much of what was portrayed was 100% reality for us. Even the uniforms were the same - serge longish jackets, shirts with separate collars and studs, and the ubiquitous denims. Even down to the Nissan huts we lived in. Still occasionally watch it as a reminder of the good times we had.
I was a few years later joining in 1960, and so much of what was portrayed was 100% reality for us. Even the uniforms were the same - serge longish jackets, shirts with separate collars and studs, and the ubiquitous denims. Even down to the Nissan huts we lived in. Still occasionally watch it as a reminder of the good times we had.
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By the time I had completed my 'square bashing' I was convinced corporals were the most powerful rank in the RAF. IMHO Corporal techies were certainly the backbone of squadron and 2nd line servicing.
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Chugalug,
Your: "Only "real" Squadron Leaders were given Senior Officer accommodation, those who commanded VC-10's being sent off in the opposite direction with the rest of their crew..."
But then, didn't you have "The Ring of Confidence" to console you !
("Keep your Family within Colgate's Ring of Confidence")
D.
Your: "Only "real" Squadron Leaders were given Senior Officer accommodation, those who commanded VC-10's being sent off in the opposite direction with the rest of their crew..."
But then, didn't you have "The Ring of Confidence" to console you !
("Keep your Family within Colgate's Ring of Confidence")
D.
