Ripping Yarns : Squadron One-upmanship Fun
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Courtney ... Your wish is my command ... some simple DIY Self Assembly required ... I'm sure that OC Finmere Household will gladly assist 
P/O Kenny Cockerel
Material Cumerbund For The Use Of
£20 all in
Pictures will be required if assembly is to go ahead
Best ...
Coff.
P/O Kenny Cockerel
Material Cumerbund For The Use Of
£20 all in
Pictures will be required if assembly is to go ahead
Best ...
Coff.
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I don't know about a cummerbund but I did help make a harness for a chicken so that a F/O could fulfill his secondary duty of walking it.
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Sorry Coff, I've barely got any photos from my service. The exercise was definately for the Navs benefit.
His mate was tasked with counting every tree on the site.
Istr one of the more senior Navs pretending to be the CO (also a Nav) and inviting one of them to go flying together during a drunken arrival meeting.
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His mate was tasked with counting every tree on the site.
Istr one of the more senior Navs pretending to be the CO (also a Nav) and inviting one of them to go flying together during a drunken arrival meeting.
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His mate was tasked with counting every tree on the site.
After much bragging from 2 Sqn regarding their numerous armoured gate guards around their HAS site, a plan was hatched.
One Sunday afternoon, with the help of the Army..a few members of Xiii Sqn arrived on 2 Sqns site with a Recker (Army heavy lift tow truck) We then picked up the SA8 and quickly snaffled it out of the back gate.
Down the A!7 we went to Holbeach, and then deposited on target 2. 2 Sqn were fragged first thing on Monday morning for Holbeach so it would be a 'self termination' with a 3 kg terror weapon or go dry.
As it happen, OC 2 (Dick Garwood) wasn't overly amused and I was banned from the 2 Sqn site. I was leaving anyway, but still thought it was a bit offside for such a jolly jape...so i was glad to be leaving if this was the future of inter-sqn rivalry.
One Sunday afternoon, with the help of the Army..a few members of Xiii Sqn arrived on 2 Sqns site with a Recker (Army heavy lift tow truck) We then picked up the SA8 and quickly snaffled it out of the back gate.
Down the A!7 we went to Holbeach, and then deposited on target 2. 2 Sqn were fragged first thing on Monday morning for Holbeach so it would be a 'self termination' with a 3 kg terror weapon or go dry.
As it happen, OC 2 (Dick Garwood) wasn't overly amused and I was banned from the 2 Sqn site. I was leaving anyway, but still thought it was a bit offside for such a jolly jape...so i was glad to be leaving if this was the future of inter-sqn rivalry.
a few members of Xiii Sqn
Biggest problem was the SAM-8 belonged (IIRC) to Duxford and was on loan in exchange for the Hummer liberated by II(AC) Sqn from Kuwait. A typical Norfolk foggy morning saved the day in the end!
Now the application of hair dye (or was it Grecian 2000) to the duck that had taken residence in the II(AC) Sqn EWS was far more amusing....but I think that may have been a 'self inflicted' wound by certain members of the junta (or more correctly flt cdrs that thought they were still members of the junta....). The stuff put on the duck stripped all its natural waterproofing off the feathers meaning it could barely swim and which led to the squippers making the duck its very own LSJ (this is not quite how the story was reported in the local rag....).
Edited to add - found reference to it here (no picture and certainly not the local rag!)
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Biggest problem was the SAM-8 belonged (IIRC) to Duxford and was on loan
Most times it worked until the juveniles got to the party.
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Ahh. That well known line between jolly japes and stupidity that should not
be crossed.
Most times it worked until the juveniles got to the party.
Next week, I got a phone call from one of the junior pilots.
"Can we have the key for the Theatre - we need to pick up the piano - we already have the four tonner".
Apparently, the Wg Cdr of the said squadron was the PMC and he wanted a piano for the mess Burns Night (ironic). Without asking, he expected us to give up £2,000 worth of piano to replace the one his boys had just wrecked. He was most annoyed when we refused the request (if the JO was to be believed) - especially when we suggested that perhaps the Sqn should pay £500 to replace the one that they had burned if they wished the highland dancing to go ahead. They didn't get our piano though!
Whilst serving as TM TG 13 on the Worlds oldest fixed wing and premier recce squadron during the cold war, it was a "tradition" that visiting pilots bone domes were zapped with the world famous Hereward knot insignia to show the had been privileged enough to visit our Jaguar lair.
One day....a visiting Wing Commander from an inferior jag unit dropped in and of course was considered a prime target. Duly zapped, I proudly showed my handywork to one of our Flight Commanders (May well have been the late Phil Folding-Toothbrush) who said;
"That was no ordinary Wing Cdr" but our next Staish takes over next month..."
Doh!...Good job "Kip" turned out to be a top bloke!
One day....a visiting Wing Commander from an inferior jag unit dropped in and of course was considered a prime target. Duly zapped, I proudly showed my handywork to one of our Flight Commanders (May well have been the late Phil Folding-Toothbrush) who said;
"That was no ordinary Wing Cdr" but our next Staish takes over next month..."
Doh!...Good job "Kip" turned out to be a top bloke!
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Does the badge of No 22 Sqn count?
When serving in Malta their aircraft took off over HQ No 7 Gp, hence the "pi" on the badge.
I wonder who at Group approved the badge .......
22 over 7 - geddit?
When serving in Malta their aircraft took off over HQ No 7 Gp, hence the "pi" on the badge.
I wonder who at Group approved the badge .......
22 over 7 - geddit?
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The number of times a Chinook has recovered either a yellow Wessex or Sea King underslung , it should now be reversed with a 7 over 22.
I know hat/coat time again...............
I know hat/coat time again...............
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Speaking of Chinooks....
Late 1980s, there was intense rivalry at Gutersloh between 18 (Bomber) Sqn (Chinooks) and 230 (Tiger) Sqn (Pumas).
On one deployed exercise, a 230 Sqn crew snuck back to Gutersloh and stole the 18 Sqn Argentinian Jeep (liberated from the Falklands War). In retaliation, an 18 Sqn crew also snuck back to Gutersloh, and stole the very large cuddly tiger from the 230 Sqn crewroom.
The next day, at the 230 Sqn field site, all were treated to the sight of a Chinook slowly approaching their site, at about 1000 ft agl. It came to the hover, the ramp was lowered, and Timmy the Tiger was despatched from the ac, complete with a parachute.
Regrettably, the parachute failed to open properly, and Timmy the Tiger plummeted to the ground, and had, as they say, the stuffing knocked out of him!
Late 1980s, there was intense rivalry at Gutersloh between 18 (Bomber) Sqn (Chinooks) and 230 (Tiger) Sqn (Pumas).
On one deployed exercise, a 230 Sqn crew snuck back to Gutersloh and stole the 18 Sqn Argentinian Jeep (liberated from the Falklands War). In retaliation, an 18 Sqn crew also snuck back to Gutersloh, and stole the very large cuddly tiger from the 230 Sqn crewroom.
The next day, at the 230 Sqn field site, all were treated to the sight of a Chinook slowly approaching their site, at about 1000 ft agl. It came to the hover, the ramp was lowered, and Timmy the Tiger was despatched from the ac, complete with a parachute.
Regrettably, the parachute failed to open properly, and Timmy the Tiger plummeted to the ground, and had, as they say, the stuffing knocked out of him!
Leeming's first TACEVAL with the F3 involved 23 Squadron festering in goon suits in their HAZs whilst XI Squadron fulfilled its war role of...deploying to Cyprus on APC.
I recall a commiseratory () postcard sent from Golf Dispersal in Akrotiri addressed to:
"Loser Squadron, RAF Much-Suffering-In-The-Marsh, Yorkshire, England
that the Post Office correctly delivered to 23 Squadron at RAF Leeming in 3 days. Their reputation was well known!
I recall a commiseratory (
) postcard sent from Golf Dispersal in Akrotiri addressed to:"Loser Squadron, RAF Much-Suffering-In-The-Marsh, Yorkshire, England
that the Post Office correctly delivered to 23 Squadron at RAF Leeming in 3 days. Their reputation was well known!
