Why Nobody Likes RAF Police
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Originally Posted by Shjustme
'Intelligence' has been mentioned regarding the plods, and of course it is a small world we all live in, so not everybody can get the 'top job', whether they be pilots or navs or shelf stackers or plumbers or plods.
As far as I am aware no RAF pilot or nav or shelf stacker has ever been elected chairman of MENSA, whereas one RAF Plod Cpl was some years ago. Probably another lined up for the post in due course...a worthy successor to Cpl Bill ******* who sadly passed away some years ago.
As far as I am aware no RAF pilot or nav or shelf stacker has ever been elected chairman of MENSA, whereas one RAF Plod Cpl was some years ago. Probably another lined up for the post in due course...a worthy successor to Cpl Bill ******* who sadly passed away some years ago.
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Ooooh, I might have known him, did gate at Wycombe years back with a very bright Copper with two degrees - he'd just PVRd because he was "sick of a sh*t job working with a bunch of w@nkers" and he wasn't talking about the SGF - discuss
Edited because the PPRuNe filter didn't pick-up the rude words
Edited because the PPRuNe filter didn't pick-up the rude words
Originally Posted by wg13_dummy
Dont you mean MENCAP?
Dummy, can you do me a favour and re-read that mans post for me?
My dog told me it was about MENSA. You a member at all?
My dog certainly is and he has 9 GCSE's and 3 A levels he could woof at you about!
Originally Posted by Maple 01
Ooooh, I might have known him, did gate at Wycombe years back with a very bright Copper with two degrees - he'd just PVRd because he was "sick of a **** job working with a bunch of wankers" and he wasn't talking about the SGF - discuss
He didn't like the 3 or 4 guys he worked with. Stop the press! Personality clashes! Oh my god! Stop the RAF I want to get off!
You did the gate with him? So he wasn't doing very well then. No specialisation. There you go.
I've personally had a great time in the trade, ranging from being a little hitler at 18-20, learning my way up, being a friendly policeman at various stations, (and yes I made friends! Check me out!) to being ATSy, CI, and various since.
Have I worked with wankers? Of course I have!
Have most of my colleagues been nice guys looking out for other RAF types? Of course they have!
Get some perspective, before being quite so anal gives you a heart attack.
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I wonder why some of the genuine cream of top pilots in the RAF, past and present, do not contibute here to help their poor inadequate brethern. People like Thomas Kennedy, Michael Stear, Michael Knight, Michael Graydon, etc, all of whom always had a good word to say about the plods.
When millions of pens, pencils, paperclips, paper, rulers, china graphs, rubbers, were being ''''used'''' at a secret airbase outside Witney, Air Pubs staff thought it very odd, as staffing levels on base suggested that only 0.0000001% of this amount should be used. So the suspicion was, due to our '''sneaky beaky background checks''' that aircrew in particular were prone to 'nicking' such items, so Staish ''ordered'' a hard crack down with searches of all cars, brief cases and plastic bags leaving the base during one afternoon....... Well, amongst allegations from the toffee nosed ruperts, were things like ''have you nothing better to do Cpl?'' as we impounded crate loads of ''stolen goods''.... One Flt Lt had 2 full boxes of HM's biro pens in his nav bag.....(very greedy b@st@rd).... Over a period of a month at no-notice searches being sprung for half hour sessions or so 24/7, we recovered enough stolen goods to equip the whole RAF for years......CO was most appreciative of our '''zeal''' when searching, although probably no-one else was... No charges or arrests made, but everybody on base got the message, that next time CM and the order of the boot... Several careers came to a halt, never to recover. What a shame (NOT)
At a Friday afternoon 'fanta and coke do' at the end of the month, CO came along and said that we would take a lot of flak for what we had done on '''his orders''' that month, but we should be proud of our work, and we knew he mean't it... Damn fine CO he was.... guarenteed to get to the top, as he did later on, ACM.
Cannot see any of the aircrew on this forum getting to ''the top''
Just not up to the challenge...
When millions of pens, pencils, paperclips, paper, rulers, china graphs, rubbers, were being ''''used'''' at a secret airbase outside Witney, Air Pubs staff thought it very odd, as staffing levels on base suggested that only 0.0000001% of this amount should be used. So the suspicion was, due to our '''sneaky beaky background checks''' that aircrew in particular were prone to 'nicking' such items, so Staish ''ordered'' a hard crack down with searches of all cars, brief cases and plastic bags leaving the base during one afternoon....... Well, amongst allegations from the toffee nosed ruperts, were things like ''have you nothing better to do Cpl?'' as we impounded crate loads of ''stolen goods''.... One Flt Lt had 2 full boxes of HM's biro pens in his nav bag.....(very greedy b@st@rd).... Over a period of a month at no-notice searches being sprung for half hour sessions or so 24/7, we recovered enough stolen goods to equip the whole RAF for years......CO was most appreciative of our '''zeal''' when searching, although probably no-one else was... No charges or arrests made, but everybody on base got the message, that next time CM and the order of the boot... Several careers came to a halt, never to recover. What a shame (NOT)
At a Friday afternoon 'fanta and coke do' at the end of the month, CO came along and said that we would take a lot of flak for what we had done on '''his orders''' that month, but we should be proud of our work, and we knew he mean't it... Damn fine CO he was.... guarenteed to get to the top, as he did later on, ACM.
Cannot see any of the aircrew on this forum getting to ''the top''
Just not up to the challenge...
Originally Posted by wg13_dummy
Why join the RAFP? Why not join the proper coppers?
It doesn't lead to bad policemen by the way, just over zealous young ones. We all grow up eventually. ( I believe I'm nearly there.. what say you fido?)
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LOL, the great stationary snatch - pity about missing the Stazi agents running around RAFG but never mind - another good story for the reunions there
Hells bells, give me an arrogant, pissed-up winged wonder every time, at least they are there to provide airpower rather than to protect the chinagraphs
Hells bells, give me an arrogant, pissed-up winged wonder every time, at least they are there to provide airpower rather than to protect the chinagraphs
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One Flt Lt had 2 full boxes of HM's biro pens in his nav bag.
Lolol. PMSL!!!
That must rank alongside the Met lifting 3000kg of Columbian marching powder.
Will you recite that story to your grand kids?
'Grandad, what did you do in the RAF?'
'I was responsible for breaking a stationary laundering ring'
'F**k me, you were RAF plod, grandad? What a dullard!'
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16Weakbladders,
No he did not have a dog, certainly not when he appeared on the Jimmy Young prog, no need to really, as he was perfectly able to speak eloquently on the subjects put to him by Jimmy
Of course Bill ********* was a totally different chap to the very rare type who do let the plods down, giving the rest a bad name. Gits like the self confessed thief whose day job is as an actor, currently featuring on that crappy prog 'Eastenders' The bloke with all those daughters, who are a load of trouble, Jess something being one of them, can't remember his name as I don't follow the s**t, but anyway, he did his national service as raf plod, then went out to play with the Kray twins.... Always one bad apple in a cart.
No he did not have a dog, certainly not when he appeared on the Jimmy Young prog, no need to really, as he was perfectly able to speak eloquently on the subjects put to him by Jimmy
Of course Bill ********* was a totally different chap to the very rare type who do let the plods down, giving the rest a bad name. Gits like the self confessed thief whose day job is as an actor, currently featuring on that crappy prog 'Eastenders' The bloke with all those daughters, who are a load of trouble, Jess something being one of them, can't remember his name as I don't follow the s**t, but anyway, he did his national service as raf plod, then went out to play with the Kray twins.... Always one bad apple in a cart.
[quote=Maple 01]LOL, the great stationary snatch - pity about missing the Stazi agents running around RAFG
WOW!
What is this thing you have about the Stazi in Germany, was one of them having a wee bit with the wife? Regularly? It seems just too close to the heart for some reason!
As I said (again and again) earlier, I wasn't there. Neither was anyone else representing the RAFP on this forum, so yet again, with any authority, WE CAN NOT COMMENT! As far as I can see It wasn't their job at the time to detect Stazi agents anyway. MI6 are supposed to do that.
Correct me if wrong, as always, but be gentle!
Hugs and kisses.
WOW!
What is this thing you have about the Stazi in Germany, was one of them having a wee bit with the wife? Regularly? It seems just too close to the heart for some reason!
As I said (again and again) earlier, I wasn't there. Neither was anyone else representing the RAFP on this forum, so yet again, with any authority, WE CAN NOT COMMENT! As far as I can see It wasn't their job at the time to detect Stazi agents anyway. MI6 are supposed to do that.
Correct me if wrong, as always, but be gentle!
Hugs and kisses.
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He didn't like the 3 or 4 guys he worked with
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WOW!
What is this thing you have about the Stazi in Germany, was one of them having a wee bit with the wife? Regularly? It seems just too close to the heart for some reason
What is this thing you have about the Stazi in Germany, was one of them having a wee bit with the wife? Regularly? It seems just too close to the heart for some reason
Or are you feeling picked on? "Sheesh, a few lousy security breaches and they never forget, me? I saved the chinagraphs and they didn't give me a medal"
Tell me you didn't get an AOCs for that.......
You weren't there? It had been going on since the early 1970s at least. Didn't they let you out of the country?
As far as I can see It wasn't their job at the time to detect Stazi agents
Enough!
I have sat back and watched this thread go from bad to worse. Can we please bring it to an end! 
Can everyone who belongs in this forum please stop posting on this thread in the hope that Laarbruch72 and Shjustme disappear.
Pretty please!
Can everyone who belongs in this forum please stop posting on this thread in the hope that Laarbruch72 and Shjustme disappear.
Pretty please!
Originally Posted by wg13_dummy
Lolol. PMSL!!!
'Grandad, what did you do in the RAF?'
'I was responsible for breaking a stationary laundering ring'
'F**k me, you were RAF plod, grandad? What a dullard!'
'Grandad, what did you do in the RAF?'
'I was responsible for breaking a stationary laundering ring'
'F**k me, you were RAF plod, grandad? What a dullard!'
Select from the following:
1: I hung around in Bahrain getting pissed on the taxpayers money, making the occasional twice fortnightly soiree into (safe as houses if not off camp) Kabul to get my medal, whilst moaning about the danger at 30,000 feet. (See Basrah)
2. I shat it at a UK base moaning about doing CCS.
3: I spent a month in Basrah (safe as houses if not off camp also) moaning about the mess facilities, and the danger of the ground to air threat just to get my medal. (Even though there are no credible enemy air forces or ground threat operating in any current theatre!)
Brave men, to a man. I salute you all!
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Originally Posted by Laarbruch72
"Grandad Dummy, (assuming you're ever capable of the first part of all of this, i.e. sticking one in without being guided by someone on a headset just to get a child), what did you do in the war?"
Select from the following:
1: I hung around in Bahrain getting pissed on the taxpayers money, making the occasional twice fortnightly soiree into (safe as houses if not off camp) Kabul to get my medal, whilst moaning about the danger at 30,000 feet. (See Basrah)
2. I shat it at a UK base moaning about doing CCS.
3: I spent a month in Basrah (safe as houses if not off camp also) moaning about the mess facilities, and the danger of the ground to air threat just to get my medal. (Even though there are no credible enemy air forces or ground threat operating in any current theatre!)
Brave men, to a man. I salute you all!
Select from the following:
1: I hung around in Bahrain getting pissed on the taxpayers money, making the occasional twice fortnightly soiree into (safe as houses if not off camp) Kabul to get my medal, whilst moaning about the danger at 30,000 feet. (See Basrah)
2. I shat it at a UK base moaning about doing CCS.
3: I spent a month in Basrah (safe as houses if not off camp also) moaning about the mess facilities, and the danger of the ground to air threat just to get my medal. (Even though there are no credible enemy air forces or ground threat operating in any current theatre!)
Brave men, to a man. I salute you all!
1. Spent several tours in Northern Ireland as an Infantryman. Mid 80's South Armagh, West Belfast, Londonderry. (several contacts, lost approx 10 mates in the first two tours alone).
2. Bosnia (when the war was still on. Plenty of contacts)
3. That accounts for two of my six gongs. I'll not bore you with the rest.
4. Best you do a little bit of homework and discover I'm not a sideways walker but a pongo.
Detective work not your strong point?