APC 343 Who's still flying?
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Go Baldies!! Great to see so many of you out there. I hope all are well. I'm currently the desk officer in Glasgow, peddling misery and pain! Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper! Haven't been near an aircraft in years (2001) but that just gives me more time to spend the flying pay! It would be great to get 343 back together; Middle Wallop sometime? Maybe we could look up some of the instructors, a game of oscar bingo anyone?
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343 PAH!!!! 342 were amuch better looking bunch. Well when naked with FRC top cover. Nice post though, 343 and 342 got on well and made the course way more liveable with a good bunch sharing the crewroom. 
. Great crewroom banter etc but my fave memory is of an epic '92 Remembrance Day...wot a pi55 up
. Happy days!
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Remembrance day Piss up
I remember that day the mess bar finally ran out of Champagne and the floor was covered in glass as I taught you all the skill of opening Champagne without removing the cork. I still have my hair but its all grey now. Oh I was the Commandant by the way. Good luck to you all
LB
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I remember it well LB. What a great day. That's the way i want to remembered by the subbies when i'm pushing up the daisys! I'm still trying open bubbly like that - don't always manage it though. Being part of the team that drank the Mess dry of champagne still goes down as the most remarkable achievement of my military career. No remembrance day has ever come close - and this year certainly won't. LB - how about a refresher next time i'm back in the area? I'll by the bubbly of course.
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Bottles and Swords
Fester,
I still work at Wallop. Look me up in Building 431 and we'll head for the bar, bottles on you and I'm sure we'll pursuade a young aspiring gun pilot to lend us a sword.
LB
I still work at Wallop. Look me up in Building 431 and we'll head for the bar, bottles on you and I'm sure we'll pursuade a young aspiring gun pilot to lend us a sword.
LB
Typical bloody APC342 trying to crash our thread, they always were envious of the better party-goers (if follicly challenged) of 343. 
I don't remember the Rememberance day at all (hm, curious sentence that one), but I do remember the flagpole getting unstraight at the Time Travel party! And as for the mess cannons...
Sam.
I don't remember the Rememberance day at all (hm, curious sentence that one), but I do remember the flagpole getting unstraight at the Time Travel party! And as for the mess cannons...
Sam.
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Mess Cannons.
Sam, they would be the mess cannons down at the Navy mess in Plymouth during the aircrew survival course? They were probably taken off Nelsons flagship or somesuch and here we are having races down the hallway. Quite a few sore and sleepy heads in lectures the following day I seem to recall! 
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The morning after the night before.
They had big comfy armchairs in the classroom and the heating cranked up. Half the course fell asleep about 5 mins into the first lecture. Looking back now...too funny really. The poor guy giving the course was not best pleased! Makes me laugh just thinking about it.