Originally Posted by
stevef
RAF shirts had detachable collars and dhobi-ing was done in the Airmens Block sinks with 3" x 2" x 12" blocks of soap that would defy a woodworker's rasp. Manual bumpers to polish the billet floor. One individual sheet change per week. Yeah - those were the days...
And NAAFI sold plastic collars that looked like the starched one.
Officers carried swagger sticks.
Officers wore hats in civvie so they could doff them to Mrs Sqn Ldr.
Batmen.
Sports afternoon.
The station commander was the only one with a staff car Standard Saloon.
The senior engineer was the Station Technical Officer, a sqn ldr.
Admin Wg was staffed by aircrew
