NNNNnooooooooooooooo Digestives please :p

Yes I do indeed want to see it fly again next year, but not with the inept current management in charge, so no, I have torn this years begging letters up.. I am afraid the only way these people will take note of the frustration amongst the supporters is sadly if the funds are witheld until they leave.

The OCU Wessexs putting up the fourship over Odiham ( the OCU fleet) before departing to its new base at Benson with the “bet you cannot put up four Pumas over Benson” ( the OCU fleet and not famed for their servicability) and there is a barrel on it……….

Four Pumas over Benson and back to Odiham in formation, Beer won! no one any the wiser we had borrowed the odd Puma from the squadrons to win the beer :diablo::dev2:

Whilst serving at Brize we were told when the USAF departed they offered the contents of the quarters to the incoming RAF for free, big American fridges, cookers, furniture etc They were happy with this until the Treasury of the day pointed out that as they had been imported Tax free the USA would have to pay the tax on them before they could give them to the UK………….. needless to say a big hole was dug and the USAF dumped the lot in it, ran a buldozer over it and back filled the site………… Also at the same time Brize had an all weather runway the USAF had recently installed consisting of under surface heating elements, they offered to sell the system to the MOD, but the UK declined, after all they couldn’t take it with them so they would get it for free……….. The USAF had other thoughts and put a bulldozer with a hook on the back down the grass and tore the wiring out of the elements scrapping the system……… Still they got a bowling alley, though you couldn’t get on it because of all the civi bowling clubs the RAF let use it.

I can understand the burying off some Aircraft on remote sites, such as the DC3, simply to stop all the aircraft crash radio reports from overflying aircraft.

When at Odiham used to have to dig the gardens outside the buildings over for AOC’s inspection, until one of the sections unearthed a live grenade….. no more digging yeeehhaaaaaa.

One of the Radio Techs on the Squadron had been out in Cyprus when the Turks invaded and was telling us one they used to mortar the Married families compound and hit the carparks, apparently they got well compensated if they hit your car and one of the guys had a wreck of a car and even though it always seemed to be parked in the right place for a pay out, everyone elses got hit bar his….. 🙁

The radio section were told to pack everything up for evacuation, all the servicable equipment and tooling had to be marked up as such and carefully packed, all the U/S equipment was to be rendered as scrap with a fireaxe… Some of the equipment was hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of gear and a lot brand new…. the day came to shift the Servicable stuff (think it was a Herk) arrived, everything was loaded and off the Herk went with the first load, about 15 mins to their suprise it arrived back, thinking it had a prob they went out to find an empty aircraft ready for the second load of carefully packed equipment, asking where the first load was the crewmen smiled and replied, at the bottom of the Med!…………….

Good to here it’s reprieved, JoeyR, yes I am happy it’s got the funds, but the management haven’t done it, an individual has….. He is the one that deserves the praise, as for the other lot……

I would have shot him too, as I said previous, live by the gun die by the gun….. Second guessing someone who is known to be armed gets you killed, unless there is clear evidence he wasn’t wielding it, ie hands in the air, you have to assume he will use it against you.

And his worst was failing to go ahead with the gas storage programme.