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Old 22nd Dec 2006, 15:44
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Exrigger
 
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A new OC Eng Wg at Gutersloh decided that all Eng Wing personnel would turn up on the taxi way once a week (might have been month, senile moment) to run up and down for exercise. On the day he and his faithfull followers turned up and waited, the aircraft flew, got serviced and they decided that it might be a good idea to get out of the way, the idea was never raised again. Just prior to going to the 91 gulf war we had an ex Army officer posted in as our JENGO his words were 'I joined the Army to go to war, never did, moved to the RAF and now I am. He also said that a Sqd that trained together would fight together, so he arranged weekly PT sessions, the PTI was actually very good and made the sessions 'user friendly' the culmination of this was the mile run and if you failed it you continued the gym rouitnes untill you did. Funny though the only people that went during the lunch break were Sgts and below, the rest had to much work. But it was fun watching them fail the run, unfortunately they did not have to re-train and re-do the run.
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