Pull up a sandbag ~ "I remember when..
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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From: Lincolnshire
Weekly pay parade.
There were two station bikes. One was for getting around the station.
There were two station bikes. One was for getting around the station.
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From: Bristol
ID cards were blue and laminated and the the photo inside wasn't you.
PS Maple what about the L word Low level 90's that was something of an art for getting 6 runs in. ORAC feel free I know you did it!!
PS Maple what about the L word Low level 90's that was something of an art for getting 6 runs in. ORAC feel free I know you did it!!
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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From: Lincolnshire
We had passive defence and an ABCD Officer who looked very smart in blues with Regiment flashes.
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From: Shrops
We had bases in Germany and could:
Buy duty-free cars.
Spend 3 years drinking Warsteiner, Lowenbrau and Schnapps until it came out of our ears.
Wash down the above beverages with Friks, Bratties, chips and mayo.
Be woken up at oh-four fcuks-sake to go generate some jets for NATO.
Spend several weeks of the year freezing our gonads off on Sennlager range during Ex hard Frost
Buy duty-free cars.
Spend 3 years drinking Warsteiner, Lowenbrau and Schnapps until it came out of our ears.
Wash down the above beverages with Friks, Bratties, chips and mayo.
Be woken up at oh-four fcuks-sake to go generate some jets for NATO.
Spend several weeks of the year freezing our gonads off on Sennlager range during Ex hard Frost
Alba Gu Brath
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From: Merseyside
When gate guard's were armed with nothing more than a pick-axe handle.
When the overseas tour list read like a Kuoni holiday brochure.
When East Germany was white on the maps (apart from the corridors).
When the defence of the realm was in the hands of Shackletons, Lightnings and Phantoms.
Trying to find a town in Britain that didn't have some sort of military presence.
When the overseas tour list read like a Kuoni holiday brochure.
When East Germany was white on the maps (apart from the corridors).
When the defence of the realm was in the hands of Shackletons, Lightnings and Phantoms.
Trying to find a town in Britain that didn't have some sort of military presence.
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From: Hampshire, England
When RAF Welford still had an RAF presence (a flight of "dumpies" under the command of a first "tourist" Flt Lt).
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Unfortunately, I then took over as the first stawberry mivvi OIC and then shut the place!
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Unfortunately, I then took over as the first stawberry mivvi OIC and then shut the place!
HILF
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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From: Lincolnshire
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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PS Maple what about the L word Low level 90's that was something of an art for getting 6 runs in. ORAC feel free I know you did it!!
One of the old WO controllers had actually produced a book, about 12" thick, with acetates of every possible combination of Binbrook sorties in Staxton airspace. Personally, I used to wing it. God, those were the good old days. between us the Binbrook pilots and the Staxton controllers regularly sucked in and spat out F4s, F18s, F15s, F16s, Shars. The atmosphere was that, old kit or not, we could kick anybody's ass......
y good (respected) rank, and we were all too busy with SD814 Duties too worry about anything else
