A five year tour
goudie,
You memory serves you well. When I first thought about applying in 1962,
it WAS a 5 year tour as an FE but the catch was that you had to return to your previous trade after the 5 years. To retain rank you had of course to remain current in you old trade and I thought that it was just a bit too much for me so I delayed applying for the second time until 1965 when the MOD was obvously very short of FE's.
Thanks for your remarks fergi.
The grey cells are not what they used to be and I'm trying to remember I knew you. With me - it is "what you see is what you get nowadays"