Armed Forces Day
 

Happy Armed Forces Day to all who have served this great nation, and thank you for everything you have done and continue to do.

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I can't argue with those sentiments!
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It's great to be rewarded for service with a working weekend. I'm sure no-one wanted to spend AFD with their families :ok:

But think of the overtime!.......oh.
Well done anyway guys....truly the best in the world. Until Carlsberg make a soldier!

Stop moaning downsizer, it could be worse. Father Christmas never gets Christmas off ;)

TTN - and we remember Saturday morning parades EVERY week! (And Church Parades)

Downsizer (Glass half empty or what!) wrote;
When I was in I for one never minded the occasional weekend duty such as air displays, e.t.c. To make it even better, I even had days off in the week to help me get over it.

From the DT
Wee bit of thread drift, hope no one minds. A big well done to these folks.


Hundreds of strangers turn up to mourn dead soldier after viral campaign - Telegraph

Trouble is P6 driver, it isn't occasional anymore. It' happens all the time in today's Air Force.

It was a slightly tongue in cheek ironic comment about rewarding people with more work...maybe it was too subtle... :}

Looking back, I'm somewhat bemused by the juxtaposition of highly skilled aircrew and groundcrew, keeping the UK safe from the 'Red Hordes' one minute and then being subjected to marching up and down and shouted at the next. At the time I suppose we all thought it was normal. I do appreciate that some parades have a useful purpose and can be rather splendid occasions, but Station parades on Saturday mornings was a bummer!

Yes! Happy Armed Forces Day to all, past and present.

He doesnt have much on for the rest of the year though :p

But he only comes once per year, although when he does he fills stockings....:ooh:

Working weekend? What's that? Think you will find a large part of the Air Force has been 24/7 for several decades. No official entitlement to TOIL.:uhoh:

OAP

Preferably with Susannah? :)

To each their own.

The Waddo airshow was complete ****e, always falling on one of: Goodwood FoS, Wife's birthday or the British Grand Prix.

No amount of weekday time off, not that it ever occurred, would compensate for the ballocks that event involved.

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To each their own.
The Waddo airshow was complete ****e, always falling on one of: Goodwood
FoS, Wife's birthday or the British Grand Prix.
No amount of weekday time off, not that it ever occurred, would compensate
for the ballocks that event involved.Yes, I can see that must have been hard. Imagine missing Goodwood, the British Grand Prix or OMG, the wife´s birthday. It´s a hard life in the Mob:eek:

I'd be more impressed if Joe public (of whom I am but one) were encouraged more to make everyday AFD by taking note every time there is yet another, "and finally", news item about how HMF are doing something that is not self-centred and self regarding like most of us, and give thanks at that news.

As it is, it seems that AFD is yet another example of the bread and circuses acts that used to feature in Pathe or Movietone News. Fine when much of the audience were serving, had served, or had fathers/brothers/sweethearts serving. Not very effective when they are as remote as any "community", of which we hear so much and know so little.

I find it ironic that those whom we are encouraged to be grateful for are the very ones who have to make the effort to encourage us. We, on the other hand, can simply grope for the remote in order not to be made to feel beholden in any way.

I wonder if we'll see a surge in recruiting as a consequence?

All three were vastly more important to me than an uninspiring, boring and wholly predictable air show - which, in irony normally unnoticed by the military, featured very little flying and seldom any aircraft of interest on the static display.

Some of us work to live, I pity those who's life is work. So yes, OMG, my wife is more important to me than a bunch of frickin' aeroplanes.

Watching Richard 'The King' Petty thread a Plymouth Superbird up the hill at GW was worth the price of entry alone, the other 9 hours of joyous sights, sounds, and smells was icing on the cake.

Thank you to all the servicemen and women for doing what you do. You are often fighting on 2 fronts, our own government as well as the enemy.
Nice to see the unwashed offended didn't get to show their colours.