41plus,
Is that 17 Course.....it can’t have been 77. I should have with them because I went through Henlow IOT with most of that bunch! However, I was sent off to hold for some months at the Buccaneer OCU, possibly because my surname is near the end of the alphabet (and what an unhappy intro to RAF Service that was...
). I eventually did my time on 22 Cse.
Tragically, two of these chaps were killed in flying accidents on their first tour. RIP John Cathie (4th from left) who died in a Jaguar/Jaguar mid air in Germany and Steve Belcher (far right) who died in a very unlucky Nimrod crash after it suffered multiple bird strikes during the take off roll at Kinloss.