RAOC Gazette - page 106
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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Headquarters Scot-land Army Air Corps HQ AAC ORD (AIR) 1 {BR) CORPS. Corporal Bowser is our personality of the month, having successfully completed a driving course, and is now seen driving a Red Capri, at every opportunity. Staff Sergeant Mathers is all smiles now the sale is completed. Having completed his driving course he had a few weeks leave (to steady our nerves) before getting married. Congratulations Adge and Yvonne. Yvonne served in the WRAC under the juise of Private Martin before her marriage. Our S02 Ord (Air) Major de Foubert is now fully immersed excuse the pun) in the water sport of Wind Surfing and has tecently participated in the BAOR Championships of this ever jrowing sport. (What about some photographs—Editor). Welcome to Sergeants Outhwaite and Ging Hicks to 1 Regiment and 9 Regiment AAC. Good luck to Staff Sergeants femmott and Ryan on their move to 7 RHA and 4 ADOC. i AIRCRAFT SUPPORT UNIT. It is with pride and a certain amount of awe we saw Lance Corporal Crews pass his BFT this week. At six foot three inch and eighteen stone eight pounds it was an impressive sight as Tiny came in with time to Spare. This was another tribute to W02 Green our Senior Storeman who put on his running boots to accompany Lance Corporal Crews round the course and whisper words of encouragement. Sergeant Crosby and Corporal Willis are spending a great deal of time recently with the Army Air Corps Cadets. Great success was achieved by their contingent of the Army Cadet Force who came away from an Army Cadet Force Athletics meeting with a total of eighteen trophies. Corporal Willis will have been just married by the time these notes are read. Congratulations to him and his wife Brenda and we hope all goes well in their new life as ' pads.' The Officer Commanding, Major Greenwood, Corporals Eustace and Porter went sailing on the Solent in Thunderer thanks to our S02 Ord (Air) Major Bradshaw. It was a very pleasant day, everybody enjoyed themselves very much and were very impressed with Major Bradshaw's man overboard drill. Eventually Thunderer arrived at Cowes where everyone wrung themselves out and put on even more clothing to come back. Corporals Eustace and Porter had a very unusual arrangement for meals. Breakfast was left in the Solent and lunch was left for when they arrived home that night. Congratulations to our super soldier Lance Corporal Vaissiere for passing his RPC Course so well. Welcome back to Corporal Flower from his detachment in Belize. Con- gratulations also to Corporal McKimm who organised a super day out for the Unit at Weymouth. Assorted children and adults filled a fifty seater coach and had a very long and entertaining day. Private Woodward kept the tradition of these trips going and went swimming fully dressed! AT the beginning of this month the Chief Ordnance Officer, Brigadier Berresford made a ' whistle stop' visit to Scotland. During his time with us he went to Regional Depot Stirling to view the new Storehouse Complex. In the evening he visited 51 Company RAOC (V) in Glasgow and was impressed with their training standard. The School of Ordnance organised a Health and Safety Seminar at the Red- ford Study Centre later in the month and this was well attended by representatives from a number of Units. STORES SECTION RA RANGE HEBRIDES SUMMER is now with us, the nights are becoming lighter and the period for beach parties and barbecues has arrived. We witnessed the above as guests of the MRG and did not realise it was 4 am until the fire was rekindled for a third time and breakfast was served to the dawn chorus. The month did not start happily for the OC, Captain Slade, who decided to drive to a technical spares meeting with EMI Electronics at Woking. One hundred and fifty miles from London his clutch failed and he was forced to sleep for three hours on the motorway, timing his arrival in London for 3 am to avoid traffic and changing gear! W02 Robson has received some good news this month, and has applied to the Education Officer for the temporary loan of a PILL course in Chinese pending his posting to Hong Kong. He's also having the chippy run off a few sets of chop sticks and getting the legs sawn off his office furniture. Not to be outshone by ' Q's ' eastern promise Staff Sergeant Hamilton returned from Exercise Trumpet Dance in ' the sunny ole US of A ' to the dismal weather of the Hebrides. His day was in- stantly brightened by a posting order to Brunei. Staff Sergeant Ray has been awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal which provides him with some com- pensation for his colleagues coveted postings to the far East. Corporal Trent has received the results of his EPC exam three distinctions and one pass (what went wrong!) and in 2 AIRCRAFT SUPPORT UNIT. Since our last entry much has happened to us, not least of all our move, finally, into our new ' Custom Built' accommodation. Needless to say work was still in progress as we moved in and things are still not one hundred per cent as we would like them. However, we must admit it is a vast improvement on our last home. Congratulations have to be offered to Private Barlow and his wife Linda on the birth of their daughter Sharon who weighed in at five pounds two ounces. Congratulations also to Privates Pope and Spillings on their promotions to Lance Corporal—I'm sure that I missed out on a ' Happy H o u r ' somewhere along the line. We joined in with the 71 Accommodation Workshop sports day. Though well beaten we were in no way shamed, largely due to the magnificent efforts of Lance Corporal Norris, who showed his true worth by winning the meetings Victor Ludorum. Sergeant Hall has returned from taking his scouts to an International Camp in Belgium, which he swears he enjoyed. His appreciation of the outdoor life is justly rewarded by his being placed in charge of one of our MSD's shortly being deployed in the field for exercise. Judging by the long face he is now wearing he seems to be having second thoughts about the joys of camping. Our hearty welcome of the month goes to Lance Corporal Morrall, his wife Elizabeth and son Nicholas, who join us from Headquarters UKLF. — 81 — CORPS ITEMS FOR SALE THE Corps Secretariat holds a number of items for sale as detailed below: — Corps Tie £1.00 Corps Scarves £2.00 Lapel Badges (Association) 25p. Wall Plaques £5.00 Ice Buckets—side-drum with Corps Crest £8.00 Cheque or Postal Order payable to RAOC Association. Officers Club Tie £3.10 Cheque or Postal Order payable to RAOC Officers Club. Playing Cards with Corps Crest 60p. plus postage Cheque or Postal Order payable to RAOC Central PRI Fund. ATO Badges for No. 2 Dress £1.70 Cheque or Postal Order payable to Central Officers Mess Fund. The Secretariat also still holds a stock of blue cotton cravats at a cost of 50p. each—payable to RAOC Central PRI. All prices (except for Playing Cards) include packing and postage and orders should be sent to: RAOC Secretariat, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey GU16 6TF. |
| Book number | R0404 |