60 years of continous service in the RAF
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I met Hitler once, he came back in the afterlife as Jack Holt..
During a discussion on the '7 degrees of separation', I remarked that I was one kiss away from Adolf Hitler (and have photographic evidence).
Some serious thread drift going on here.
Some serious thread drift going on here.
Champagne anyone...?
My grandfather joined the RAF in 1928 and retired in the 1960s. His service overlapped my father's, who himself retired in 1992. I joined in 1990, retiring June 2012. I am a now a member of the Auxiliaries however in terms of continuous, full time service my family racked up about 84 years.
Of perhaps moderate interest is that my grandfather's first operational sqn was also my first operational sqn. Whilst on his second sqn he served in Iraq; exactly 70 years later I served on the same sqn in the same places in Iraq.
Fun fun fun.
Of perhaps moderate interest is that my grandfather's first operational sqn was also my first operational sqn. Whilst on his second sqn he served in Iraq; exactly 70 years later I served on the same sqn in the same places in Iraq.
Fun fun fun.
The book has now passed 36 chapters, 200 pages and 100K words. Trouble is, no one will believe half of it, let alone landing a Hawk blind
Did you really write "Getting 3 hours for the boss's wall" as the 'purpose of flight' in that SOR following your Canberra fire?
You have GOT to get the book published soon!!
Me: 29 years in February
Brother 1: 3 years
Brother 3: 21 years
Father: 28 years
Paternal uncle: 2 years (doc)
Maternal grandfather: 13 years; died in a plane crash
106 years in just two generations, not counting various cousins, great uncles, etc. But, if we're (figuratively) willy waving, how many of you covered both sides of "the" revolution?
Very proud of my family's military service and very proud of my allies, too.
I was once in the no-longer-extant basement of Hitler's house, but I don't know anyone who ever saw him in Koblenz so I lose on that one.
Brother 1: 3 years
Brother 3: 21 years
Father: 28 years
Paternal uncle: 2 years (doc)
Maternal grandfather: 13 years; died in a plane crash
106 years in just two generations, not counting various cousins, great uncles, etc. But, if we're (figuratively) willy waving, how many of you covered both sides of "the" revolution?
Very proud of my family's military service and very proud of my allies, too.
I was once in the no-longer-extant basement of Hitler's house, but I don't know anyone who ever saw him in Koblenz so I lose on that one.
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Joining in with the willy waving...
Me 22 years RAF (+5 years ATC)
Step Father 9 + 2 years service under 18 RAF (+4 years ATC)
Father 12 + 2 years under 18 RAF
Maternal Grandfather 1 30 years RN
Paternal Grandfather 2 6 years Army (killed in Greece 1945)
Paternal Step Grandfather 1 5 years Army
Paternal 2 Step Grandfather 2 5 years RAF
Great Grandfather 20 years RN, 15 years Coast guard
Great Great Grandfather 20 years
Helps bump up the years when grandmother married another soldier after grandfather was killed and mother remarried an ex-RAF who father was also ex..
Me 22 years RAF (+5 years ATC)
Step Father 9 + 2 years service under 18 RAF (+4 years ATC)
Father 12 + 2 years under 18 RAF
Maternal Grandfather 1 30 years RN
Paternal Grandfather 2 6 years Army (killed in Greece 1945)
Paternal Step Grandfather 1 5 years Army
Paternal 2 Step Grandfather 2 5 years RAF
Great Grandfather 20 years RN, 15 years Coast guard
Great Great Grandfather 20 years
Helps bump up the years when grandmother married another soldier after grandfather was killed and mother remarried an ex-RAF who father was also ex..
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When my great, great, great .........grandfather, Torstein, signed up as 3rd Oarsman and Deputy Chief Pillager in AD795 for Leofric's expedition to the Orkneys and then on to Cumbria etc..........
Blah, blah, blah for 1200 years.......and I left in 1993.
There - beat that
Blah, blah, blah for 1200 years.......and I left in 1993.
There - beat that
Thread drift but related. In the RCAF there is a Grandfather, Father and Son (currently in MH squadron). All three have have the same Seaking tail number in their logbook and the helicopter is still on line in an operational MH squadron. Logbook entries span 1963 to present day 
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jindy,
Clearly didn't get my attempt at modern day yoof speek!
Hey ho!
PS. Have you bought this year's Blitz Bottle yet?
PPS. That's O**, I think I knew George O** too!
'more clever' would be better
Hey ho!
PS. Have you bought this year's Blitz Bottle yet?
PPS. That's O**, I think I knew George O** too!
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Innit', bruv foldy....
BPE, one of our VC10K captains was also the 3rd generation to fly the aircraft. Her grandfather brought the aircraft into service with BOAC, her father also flew it in BOAC - and she captained its last ever flight when the last airworthy 'standard' VC10 (then a VC10K2) went to St. Athan for 'reduction to spares'.
I guess I'm 2 away from Adolf. I met the son of Rheinhard Heydrich, one of Hitler's most brutal henchmen. Unlike his utterly dreadful father, the son is a very pleasant and genial fellow - a classic case of like father, most emphatically NOT like son!
BPE, one of our VC10K captains was also the 3rd generation to fly the aircraft. Her grandfather brought the aircraft into service with BOAC, her father also flew it in BOAC - and she captained its last ever flight when the last airworthy 'standard' VC10 (then a VC10K2) went to St. Athan for 'reduction to spares'.
I guess I'm 2 away from Adolf. I met the son of Rheinhard Heydrich, one of Hitler's most brutal henchmen. Unlike his utterly dreadful father, the son is a very pleasant and genial fellow - a classic case of like father, most emphatically NOT like son!
