The White House RAF Coltishall
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I do wonder if the old boy from the NAAFI wagon ever caught up with his creditors before it shut, I remember him collaring one of our guys from Germany who had been posted away over 2 years earlier and he knew from memory who he was and what he still owed lol
Great station. Spent a few Happy Hours in the bar being baited by the Jag junta...I was an SH guy visiting mates on the SAR Flt...and before that my grandad was the Officers” Mess barman..for 29 yrs..he sometimes took me into work.
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My first weapon on stag at Lossie on Minival was said stick.
Sorry for the thread drift, I have been enjoying learning a little about the Colt of yesteryear.
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Cough.. cough.... semi automatic unless you had a packet of Swan Vesta's finest..
Didn't some senior officer in Cyprus or the like get up close and personal with a stock?
I remember the tale that he had asked to see a guards weapon on exercise on some pretext to see if it was clean etc and then charged him for handing it over, naturally this got around and he tried it again on another exercise and as he went to grab it, he met the stock coming the other way and copped a face full. It may have been folk law but it did the rounds..
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Better than every aircraft that you flew being either a Gate Guardian, recycled cans or in a museum.
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Sorry if you didn't see the place. Like a lot of places it was marmite. But a top flavoured marmite as a lot less people hating it than loving it. Small city 10 miles done the road with a load of pubs, the coast and the Broads (ditto), a small station that everyone knew each other and the empires you saw on the larger bases were few and far between. Certainly the Jet for the last 33 years of its existance helped as being an airframe that rarely interfered with social life due to its servicablity. More friction now between the blazer and the polo shirt societies. My first tour saw my wife, kids, house and some good projects sorted. Second stint saw more good stuff happen and off to the fens with the last Cats.
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'You up for the first VRT conversion course onto SA80?' 'Where?' 'Regiment Flight St Athan' Thinks,.....never been to St Athan...might be interesting!
Oh the brain pain that followed. That nice Flt Sgt regiment bloke was a joy, boy did he work us hard for 5 days only letting on after that the final test had been the equivalent of the SAC trade test and they were given 2 weeks to assimilate it all. All but three of us failed.
Oh the brain pain that followed. That nice Flt Sgt regiment bloke was a joy, boy did he work us hard for 5 days only letting on after that the final test had been the equivalent of the SAC trade test and they were given 2 weeks to assimilate it all. All but three of us failed.
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SLR... Walking about and hiding down at the Officers Mess boiler room on our one hour stag as the seats were set up and it was out of the way at 2 AM. NLG on the radio net "This is the voice of the Mysterons, we know you can hear us Earthman!" Followed by the Guard Commander retorting on the net "So can the RAF Police!" Colt, best camp ever.
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Oh yes, the officers mess boiler room. I stand corrected, it was a SA80 rather than an SLR. The last stint I did on guard was with a lovely Waf and the warm boiler room was equipped with 2 chairs a pack of cards, small table, and as it was my last ever I provided a bottle of wine. Obviously didn't drink it as that would of been against the law?