Well, I was most impressed with a service I wish I never had to use; it demonstrated to me just what the services can do if necessary.
It was the priority movements cell at Innsworth that got me Comp A'd back from Cyprus to my mothers house in Gloucester in the space of hours when my father was diagnosed terminally ill and who dealt with my distraught mother in an exemplary fashion.
If anyone from that department reads this, thanks again :D

RAF Police, true backbone of the airforce enforcers of dicipline and order sadly lacking in some individuals.

Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!! pass me another glass of meths! it's got to be the linies they are the true backbone.
And now they get the same pay as coppers and cooks, bloody joke!!:mad:

The suspense is just too much. When are you telling us the punchline??? :p

Edit: Oops. Best read the next post...... :\

No thank you. Without you requiring us stackers to play with Avtur in the field we'd have been stuck on some ghastly MOB somewhere counting nuts and bolts.:{

I must say that my time on TSW was when I felt the most valued by those we supported than at any other time throughout my RAF career. Would have been nice to see more traffic at Dungannon and Ballykelly though as cabin fever could soon set in in those sleepy hollows.;)

Oh and leave the porn in the toilet alone, thats for stacker perusal only.:}

Never been let down by a squipper, never fail to be let down by PSF. Lineys are the chosen children of god and I cannot praise them or JHSU enough.

Many other trades are essentially a large wrench to through in a well oiled machine.

Without question, the boys and girls on first line, who are there in all weathers fixing crew-in snags and whatever. The absolute unsung heros of the service. My respect to you all.
TSM

The Sunday evening I came from one of the Scottish Isles in 100% fog and having run out of routes to Glasgow Southern General other than all the way round the Mull, asked Macrihanish for fuel at no notice and got it, full service, no questions asked, from a "closed" airfield.

One life saved, well done people.

Sven

Big thumbs-up to the Pongo Posties. Rode shotgun with one for a few days in Saudi and the lad didn't care how long it took but the 'mail will get through.' Thumbs-down to the Medal Office but they have been re-railed and are now back on track - or so I've been assured.

The TSW boys and girls anywhere, stuck out in the middle of nowhere and often living in sh**. Always good for a cup of tea and a egg banjo.:ok::ok:

Armourers.

My seat worked as per the shiny advert.
Had last been serviced by a young guy who had just finished training.

Going back a bit to the late 80s-early 90's.

JHSU, the hookers, what were those guys on? Very good at rigging stuff, cool as cool things standing underneath a hovering Chinook, one would occassionally reach up and shake hands with the crewman in the centre hatch once he'd attached the hook. Mad as a box of frogs i tells yer.:D

Excellent thread.

I'd like to second Wokkameister's vote for the squippers; our 2 lads on Op Jena in GW1 were worth their weight in paladium (usually to be found working way outside their specialisation, and very effectively too).

- Then there were the cooks (forerunners of TCSU) who saw us right wherever we were - Norwegian huts, W German beech forest, Otterburn or sand-side, always producing the goods.

- Lineys, Airworkies and Reems (yes, even the Reems on an independent Sqn were worth having around) who kept the aircraft serviceable and available under sometimes very demanding circumstances.

- The Regt lads who'd accompany SH wherever we went, culminating in the lads who manned the 2nd M134 on the Chinooks in the above-mentioned unpleasantness. Oh, and "Ape" the pup-rescuer, seeing off the Croat louts then giving mouth-to-nose resuscitation to the dog they were tormenting. Top people.

A big 2 thumbs-up to them all :ok: :ok: