St Athan 40th Entry B/E 50 years Ago
24th of May 1960, after leaving home on my sixteenth birthday three days earlier, I signed on the dotted line and agreed to dedicate the next 12 years (9+3) to Her Majesty´s pleasure. Anybody else out there celebrating this anniversary?
The first pay parade to collect a ten bob note as a "welcome" to the RAF, the two corporal D.I.s in ITS who played good cop, bad cop and each of whom turned out to be the opposite of his role?
The first letter from home and running to the bog so your new mates wouldn´t see the tears as a giant wave of homesickness rolled over you.
A few weeks later feeling as happy as you revelled in your new fitness level and learned about aircraft and how to fix them. (The red pen came later in the course)
Happy days and still in touch with some who collected the Queen´s shilling on the same day.
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