Strike Squadron Jaguar 1979
 

This just popped up on YouTube, might be of interest...

Great bit of nostalgia for those of us who were on out first tours in the late 70's. Of course phrases from the commentary such as 'It's a mans job...' and 'Even the gayest of parties...' will no doubt have the cancel culture twitterati hashtagging themselves into a frenzy ;-)

Lovely to see my old partner in crime ,starting from 1968 on 99 Cadet Entry RAFC ,, Dave Weston...(and later 10 G.E in 1972)
I last heard of him as a Hercules Sqn Ldr some years later and gather he then went civil.
If anybody could follow up on this (PM?) It would be much appreciated!

Oh, the nostalgia and those sartorial excesses in civvies. :ok:

Loved seeing the steely-eyed aviator putting his tin flower-pot on the rwong-way-round at 22:57. I think a BFTS fellow-stude (17 Course at Linton) VW'd from Jags early into his first tour at Bruggen around 1979 - occasionally wonder what happened to him and the others.

A bit of a mishmash of films, swopping from the grey underside paint schemes to the wrap around in one trip, nice to see my old squadron and Sqn site staring though ( 14 Sqn )

So, where are the four Lossie studes now?

The Squadron Boss featured - Wg Cdr Trowern was later the Chief Instructor on Chipmunks at Middle Wallop - sadly deceased I believe.

Also the instructor featured at 19:21 is, I believe S/L Russ Peart who later became a TP and flew amongst other things, a captured Argentine Pucara!

Jags
 

DM left RAF later then featured in tv coverage in the noughties of his fight with planners over a development near his home. Stu S never made pairs lead, Steve left and flew for a nascent Welsh airline. Terrible dress sense we had. Very false verbals, no sense of the constant tension young pilots were under flying Attack and of course, Nuclear Strike with all the security and stress that entailed. The threat was very real …and it’s just got worse. Brought back some of the feelings of operating in those days on NATOs number one Strike Attack base ( first to get 1s across the board at TACEVAL…and then repeat it!!)

Only because Bruggen held bloody exercises every other day.

One’s
 

Practice made perfect.

By the time I was at Lossie, the OCU was down to one Squadron and banished to the other side. God, That is almost 40 years ago!