Well done Pike, I was wondering when someone was going to spot that...:D

Have a Google on the place and you'll read things like:

If posh totty in summer dresses isn't your form then Gloucester it is for you my friend or the local Wetherspoons (think its called Moon on the Water if I remember correctly).

MGD

You're not off as well are you?

Yep,

got a year or so yet, but have decided the RAF and I have differing plans for the future.

I see no leadership at the top, and all the strong, capable leaders I see are leaving as they are fed up with endless trivia, PI's and initiatives and are exactly the capable people the airlines are looking for.

MGD
I read you loud & clear and I've got a couple of years to my ORD - things need to change.
LJ

What a complete load of fecking pish!!!
How much will the flypast cost alone?? Talk about a waste of resources, it beggars belief??
Pish

If the participants, in a fairly straight forward parade, have to be confined to camp to ensure they are always present for drill, then discipline/trust must be at an all time low.
I find this action difficult to comprehend.
I would not have expected this to happen in the '50s/60s let alone today.

A bit of deliberate tick tocking seems to be in order........ or a nice twisted ankle or 10........

Who on earth came up with such an unreasonable restriction on the human rights of our hard-pressed military personnel?

This must be unlawful - what is the alleged justification? Whose signature is on the joining instructions?

Truly the lunatics are running the asylum these days.....:mad:

I hope that mass redressing is the next step - followed by mass PVR.

We'll have to see if the Red Cross will stump up for one of these to help the inmates keep their fitness up, if you know what I mean.;)

The bit that baffles me about all this is why are the practices being done at Innsworth?

Surely somewhere known for its parade squares, ability to deal with large numbers of transiting troops and having a number of DI's on hand to assist, such as RAF Uxbridge or RAF Halton would have been a far better choice of location? Did an extremely blunt person with a Innsworth fixation have a hand in choosing the internment camp?

Not sure if this link will work....

but...

I wonder if the RAF Central Bandmaster could be persuaded to include this in the repertoire

YouTube - The Great Escape Theme (1963 WWII film)

:ok:

The main gate at Innschwitz now has a welcoming new Mission Statement:


Have the goon boxes been delivered yet?

90+ flypast. But it's a 'private' do so no access to the base for the public, right? I presume someone has realised that the roads around Fairford will be gridlocked with the spotters, it will be mental. They'll be tramping over the fields, Whelford will be under siege and the transport infra for 10 miles will be in meltdown. Bet the Police and Security forces will be well happy. Brilliant :\

No I am rapidly approaching my IPP, and no FRI would keep me in. Being rolled in chocolate and locked in a room with Girls Aloud wouldn't persuade me to stay.

My issue is not with the fleet. I love the Chinook, it's the service that is driving me out. Unfortunately, things like the formation of Stalag Innsworth don't even raise my pulse rate anymore. We have all been conditioned and worn down by a very long list of crap, trivia and poorly implementated change and just stare in bewilderment as such decisions screw us, and those around us.

In answer to your question Mac, a posting to fixed wing, SAR, UAV's in vegas or anywhere else doesn't interest me.

For all the blah about core values, it is the poor leadership and erosion of the RAF that has made my decision.

Given that it's the public whose taxes pay for the aircraft and the lads/lasses that bend/mend them, I think it's a firkin shame that the event is taking place on a private day.

Great PR, RAF. Keep it up :D

And here are the formation ironing display team, the Red Robins (anyone remember this?)

http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/17214...s/45172455.jpg



http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B3664...43E7/0/086.jpg

Is he really ironing a Jacket with the medals on it? :ugh: ROFL...

Just as well he hasn't got a sword, that could be mighty tricky:}

#1's ironing board is far too low - his back should be straight and his elbow bent at 90 deg. Plus where's his rank slides?

#4's tie is too short and I've got a bad feeling he's wearing clippy braces...

What's happened to standards?

:E

and he is not using any protection, ironing cloth anyone?

Is that the Press Office?

And they will all think TFFT.

I think my last parade was an AOCs parade at ISK about 1978-79. It was Ffffffrezing. When the order came to take post or whatever I couldn't. My back had locked.