Another Lyneham - Brize rumour?
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Why do they never learn?Quite simple. In the times in question, where people are recalling horror stories from the 70's 80's and 90's, the organisation at that level was run by married Flt Lts and SNCO's FOR married Flt Lts and SNCO's.Had they been compelled to live in the kind of accom that a lot of us OR's had to, things may have turned out differently.Not so much regarding places like Newton Farm Lodge @ Buchan in the 80's, but the situations at places like Boulmer in the late 80's/early 90's before the new build, High Wycombe in the 90's and also Stanmore Park/Bentley Priory, there were more than ample opportunities to put things right.A plain and simple case of a them and us culture at certain stations and a sign of things to come as those who were prominent at certain stations now rose to the positions of prominence they have now, or in the previous five to eight years....
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In the mid '60s I was at 6 FTS Acklington (North of Newcastle) and almost all the Buildings were wooden huts left over from WW2. New Married Accommodation and new Messes were built but before they were finished the Station was closed in a round of Defence Cuts. The place became a Prison.
In the mid '60s I was at 6 FTS Acklington (North of Newcastle) and almost all the Buildings were wooden huts left over from WW2. New Married Accommodation and new Messes were built but before they were finished the Station was closed in a round of Defence Cuts. The place became a Prison.
How are the taxiways looking at Little Rissington?
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This looks positively palatial compared with block 101 at AKT that is still in use....
Found on Flickr | Upper Rissington & RAF Little Rissington
I would have thought this would have been an excellent solution, reinstate the mess at Rissington, maybe sweep up the runways, buy back the hangars and bob's your uncle, Brize RLG is born...
Found on Flickr | Upper Rissington & RAF Little Rissington
I would have thought this would have been an excellent solution, reinstate the mess at Rissington, maybe sweep up the runways, buy back the hangars and bob's your uncle, Brize RLG is born...
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Audit Office Investigation
When will someone within the MOD actually investigate this project and when will the RAF Infra staffs take some ownership of a crap plan...........until senior officers are given ownership of a project until completion then this will happen and they will just carry on pissing people around with no thought for anyone but themselves and their career. I was at Air when this was talked about and I remember sitting in a room with a 2 * officer and his infra advisors who told him it wouldnt work but it wasnt going to be their problem in 2 years, never mind eh!
We all saw it coming but no-one wanted or could apply the brakes. Glad I left when I did, although at least thye are getting subsistence allowances etc
We all saw it coming but no-one wanted or could apply the brakes. Glad I left when I did, although at least thye are getting subsistence allowances etc
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In my time ('66-'77) there weren't any spare married quarters. You had to wait months in the queue to get one. In many cases ever came available and you'd end up in a "hiring" for the tour.
The Navy have the answer. "Hot Bunking" - one bed, two men. One on night shift the other on days. Simples. Innit? 
..because half of one room was on day shift and were at work, and the other half were sleeping off nights and were still in bed...
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Dirty minds... 
Worst accommodation I experienced was in January '69 at Stanmore Park while on a course at Hatfield, 30 miles away in Hertfordshire. A wooden hut with pot-belly stove - traditional wartime singlies quarters, except there was no coal. We burned all the linoleum, the wooden furniture and the wooden handrails from the covered walkways to the outside ablutions. If we'd stayed any longer, the hut next door would have been next in the pot.
Worst accommodation I experienced was in January '69 at Stanmore Park while on a course at Hatfield, 30 miles away in Hertfordshire. A wooden hut with pot-belly stove - traditional wartime singlies quarters, except there was no coal. We burned all the linoleum, the wooden furniture and the wooden handrails from the covered walkways to the outside ablutions. If we'd stayed any longer, the hut next door would have been next in the pot.
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This thread seems to be turning into the 4 Yorkshiremen's sketch....'Worst accommodation I ever 'ad were in't shoebox in middle o' road....you were lucky!'....etc.
Blacksheep - you had a pot belly stove.......!
Blacksheep - you had a pot belly stove.......!
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This is unbelievable
I have just had an email telling me that I am to be accomodated in the soon to be refurbished Annex to the Mess currently in use as a school! I hope the furniture is changed too!
