Weekly pay parade.

There were two station bikes. One was for getting around the station.

Good god, SWO's treaders. Going up the hill From Stamford on one, with 4 bags of Morrisons shopping on the handlebars.. single speed. :=

ID cards were blue and laminated and the the photo inside wasn't you.

PS Maple what about the L word Low level 90's that was something of an art for getting 6 runs in. ORAC feel free I know you did it!!

'Army 2000" was a vision, not a manning target.

.. when TAM was a Tactical Aide Memoire and not something some of us might ever need to deploy with.

We had passive defence and an ABCD Officer who looked very smart in blues with Regiment flashes.

Old No 2's worn in a military manner and with the required badges were smart, yes. I agree. Footage of Bofers 40/70 being fired by snappy crews in afb serge is cool.

We had bases in Germany and could:
Buy duty-free cars.
Spend 3 years drinking Warsteiner, Lowenbrau and Schnapps until it came out of our ears.
Wash down the above beverages with Friks, Bratties, chips and mayo.
Be woken up at oh-four fcuks-sake to go generate some jets for NATO.
Spend several weeks of the year freezing our gonads off on Sennlager range during Ex hard Frost :\

Does anyone remember " hangar floors " from the NAAFI van ? Talking of station bikes, from a previous contribution, "Silver" at Binbrook, mid 60`s ?

Our starred officers were all ex-WW2 and had "been there"

When gate guard's were armed with nothing more than a pick-axe handle.
When the overseas tour list read like a Kuoni holiday brochure.
When East Germany was white on the maps (apart from the corridors).
When the defence of the realm was in the hands of Shackletons, Lightnings and Phantoms.
Trying to find a town in Britain that didn't have some sort of military presence.

.. and who had more proper decorations than than they did baubles and MBAs.

When RAF Welford still had an RAF presence (a flight of "dumpies" under the command of a first "tourist" Flt Lt).
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Unfortunately, I then took over as the first stawberry mivvi OIC and then shut the place! :O:O

HILF

Lincolns

and often had bits missing like arms, legs etc

.. when compo still contained a sweets, chocolates, raisons and nuts (scran) pack that lead the world.

.....................When my SAR callsign was - Pedro 45!

One thinks one is referring to V3Bs; one could do inside ones; outside ones or mixes with ftr or tgt turning inside or outside.

One of the old WO controllers had actually produced a book, about 12" thick, with acetates of every possible combination of Binbrook sorties in Staxton airspace. Personally, I used to wing it. God, those were the good old days. between us the Binbrook pilots and the Staxton controllers regularly sucked in and spat out F4s, F18s, F15s, F16s, Shars. The atmosphere was that, old kit or not, we could kick anybody's ass......

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Cpl was a bl:mad:y good (respected) rank, and we were all too busy with SD814 Duties too worry about anything else

Shuush check for that Omega:cool:

Morse ruled:ok: