It's a Small World
In the same vein, In the mid 1980s I was SDO at Cranwell and thus had to sleep at York House Mess - not my usual. As I walked in a noted a visiting truckie nav who looked familiar. As you do, we went through our service careers trying to match up. Stations? IOT? OCC? .... Finally, having exhausted that we went even further back: We had sung in the same performance of Pirates of Penzance at University about 15+ years before!
Yep, small world!
Yep, small world!
I was and remain, one of the UK's top academics.
Oh no you b£oody aren't, Stoppers! A fine ex-student of mine, I would admit, but you most assuredly saw through the bolleaux of that course you were doing in favour of beer, babes and Bulldog flying! Don't try to deny it! As for inheriting pussy from someone else, well, no surprise there!!
One frequently went flying in the FunBus from Turkey. Often we took various Spams along for the ride over 'I-raq'; either they were curvaceous and friendly (and female!) or were just along to get enough points for yet another 'Gee, I'm brave' medal.
One day we took some staff bloke flying. In the boring bit between AAR sessions keeping a look out for SAMs etc, I mentioned to this bloke some other Spam I'd known years earlier - a Colonel who made LeMay and/or Schwartzkopf look like a wet wimp.
It turned out that the Colonel was this bloke's daughter's godfather. Now there are quite a few Spams in the USAF, so this was some coincidence. But what the bloke found far more interesting was the fact that I'd seen the Colonel's ravishing 17...OK, 16...probably - at least I hope so..
year old daughter in a body fitting swim suit* in Hawaii....
*Still have the photo somewhere.....
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Twice in one month (!)
December last year. En route to NZ for Christmas/ New Year Hol with T+S. Stopped off in HK for a few days, and walking along the board walk watching the laser show, I saw an old buddy from years previous (Pusser's Grey, 1990ish). Despite shouting "oi, FLOBS", he failed to notice me in the crowd, so I figured I had missed a serious beer and anecdotes session.
Fast forward a couple of weeks. Sitting in the waiting area/ bar for the Milford Sound cruise (don't I know living?), who should wander in but same old self-loading baggage. Sadly, we were not embarking on the same fun-ferry, so another onslaught on the liver was narrowly averted.
And by the way, it turned out he had joined up with my wife's brother back in 1986.
Fast forward a couple of weeks. Sitting in the waiting area/ bar for the Milford Sound cruise (don't I know living?), who should wander in but same old self-loading baggage. Sadly, we were not embarking on the same fun-ferry, so another onslaught on the liver was narrowly averted.
And by the way, it turned out he had joined up with my wife's brother back in 1986.
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Phoning from the section to get an insurance quote from some random company based elsewhere in the country; on giving my postcode, the lady asks 'are you at RAF ****?', 'yes', I reply, 'do you know my brother, **** Smith?' she enquires, 'yes', I say, 'he's sat next to me!'.
Or..
Sat with the family in a restaurant in Paris when in walks OC Ops, in uniform!
Or..
Sat with the family in a restaurant in Paris when in walks OC Ops, in uniform!
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Was in 96/7 in Malaya, Ex Flying Fish in the 5 star hotel downstairs bar that the Hotel had reduced the prices in so as to keep all the drunks away from the well paying customers. Mixture of E3/F3/GR1B/Nimrod/VC10 M8's at the bar, when in walks a Brit. Turns out to be an GR1B Pilot who had paid £2500 each for him and his new bride to honeymoon at said 5* for the 2 weeks that "Flying fish" was on for.
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Many moons ago as a mere slip of a lad I was dating a young lady from Texas whose father had flown B52s.
Talking in the Scruffs Bar to the USAF exchange officer who had also flown 52s in Nam, turns out that not only were they on the same Sqn they had actually flown together.
Talking in the Scruffs Bar to the USAF exchange officer who had also flown 52s in Nam, turns out that not only were they on the same Sqn they had actually flown together.
An RAFG Station Commander was an old acquaintance of mine from training days. It happened that I bumped into him in the WOC one day when passing through his patch and we spent a pleasant few minutes reminiscing. About 2 months later I was walking through the Mens' Outfitting Dept. of the local branch of John Lewis the sales assistant who was wrapping a pair of trousers at the desk as I passed looked up and grinned broadly. I did a very quick double take before I realised that it was my RAFG staish acquaintance. He was in the middle of his induction course with John Lewis.
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In April 79 I was in China on business and taken by my hosts to see the Great Wall. It was very hot so I took off my jacket and my white shirt was very conspicuous among the (in those days) sea of grey suits. I was walking down a slope and could see a similar sole white shirt among the grey coming in the opposite direction about 100 yds ahead. I soon realised it was John Cunningham who I had not seen since 1975. I put my jacket back on and keeping as low as possible waited until he was alongside me and quietly said “Hello John how are you?” He had not seen me approaching and was turned to stone in mid stride. Eventually he managed five words “What are you doing here”
Late '85 on holiday in the Gambia. Got chatting to a bloke in the hotel who's taking his 'last' holiday before IOT.
Summer of '86, camp with cadets at Rudloe Manor. Mid week, a Plt Off who appears to only have No 1 uniform is seen wandering about the mess on a 'holding' posting. You guessed it same bloke.
Summer of '86, camp with cadets at Rudloe Manor. Mid week, a Plt Off who appears to only have No 1 uniform is seen wandering about the mess on a 'holding' posting. You guessed it same bloke.
