RAOC Gazette - page 282
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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 Scotland THE photograph shows the General Officer Commanding Scotland, Lieutenant General Sir David Young KBE CB DFC, officiating at the annual Charity Draw. He is seen drawing the winning prize for a gallon of ' Queen Anne ' whisky. This was won by Mr AJastair Shillington who works in the Post Room in the Head- quarters. The second prize of a piece of Caithness Glass went to Mr Stan Stafford of our Combat Supplies Branch. A proportion of the money raised went to the Gogarburn Group RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association). A separate report on this is on page 213. Sergeant Grey who has already shown evidence of his photographic prowess has ' seen the light' and has transferred from the Royal Scots to RAOC. He is shortly to be posted to Belize after a short attachment to this Headquarters. We welcome Sergeant Bates to the ACIO in Dundee and hope that he will maintain the satisfactory level of RAOC recruiting in Scotland. South East District FUEL economies, manpower reductions, overtime bans and a plethora of economic measures have become the order of the day now and we are becoming adept at finding ' ways and means.' All the military staff managed to pass their BFT first time including W02 Shakeshaft our Chief Clerk who ran a total of twelve miles last time before passing! He can't wait to get old because next year he gets an extra thirty seconds. Colonel Green, our CRAOC, has been appointed DACOS Logistics at AFCENT and is to be seen studying all the new models of cars on which he can spend his LOA. We were getting worried that Major John Muston had no mountains to climb lately, but much to our relief he dis- appeared with Major Robin Watts to the Isle-of-Arran to take part in the gruelling Karrimor Mountain Marathon. To finish this monster orienteering event was an achievement and is back to his old self once again. We say farewell to W02 John Lloyd who has left the Army to run the logistics for a brick making company and Mrs Molly Rochester, a long time stalwart of Mob, has moved to Depot ACC in Aldershot. We wish Captain Ian Jones an enjoyable four month tour in Belize. 6 Field Force The GOC makes the draw. STORES SECTION RA RANGE HEBRIDES AS I sit in my unheated, unlit office my mind wanders to conjure up a Victorian scene of Scrooge and Bob Cratchitt occupying grim and meagre premises, then it suddenly strikes me that Christmas is almost with us and I desperately try to ' remember what has happened to 1980. October is possibly the worst month in the Hebrides, the already bleak and forbidding landscape submits itself to the incessant battering of gale after gale while the feeling of isolation is only enhanced by the clocks retreating in sympathy. But October did have its brighter moments, our Crusader- ing hero's Corporals Byrne and Trent, Lance Corporal Jarman and Private Stewart returned from BAOR unsung heros with stories of glory only rivalled by the Spartans magnificent defence of Themopolae. During the Crusader period many things happened on the island, we were invaded by bears or rather " Hercules." The OC was lucky enough to be Orderly Officer that night and felt he was at the wrong end of a practical joke, while Staff Sergeant Hamilton headed a search team before going to St Kilda to get away from it all. The bear was eventually caught some three weeks later. Staff Sergeant Ray and Sergeant Coom are being educated every afternoon, while W02 Robson has gone south for winter on a provision course at the School of Ordnance. ' Q ' is count- ing the days and with a Hong Kong tour looming; who blames him. Next an unhappy task—which is to wish Lance Corporal Austin goodbye, he departs the Section after eighteen months, to spend his remaining six months army service at Kineton and finally a welcome to Lance Corporal Pickup from 1 (BR) Corps Stores Company. VISITS this month have included one from the DGOS who spent half a day with the Company. He was briefed by the Officer Commanding, Major MacDougall and took the opportunity to see the Company depart- ments and activities and speak to every one of the Company personnel. The Company's Quarter Guard turned out again with their usual aura of smart efficiency led by the CSM, W 2 J. Boyle. A credit to the Com- pany indeed but there is no truth in the output from Rumour Control that they have been practicing for duties at some of the more desirable residences in London! The Company's adventure training week (Exercise Tregantle Tug) had to be cancelled because of the moratorium of fuel and other cuts. The exercise was replaced hurriedly by a week of adventure training within South East District. This included sailing, canoeing and rock climbing and most of the Company was able to take part The OC rediscovered his youth when dinghy sailing at Hawley Lake. Earlier in the period, some forty Company personnel took part in exercise Dyfed Trek the aim of which was to march one hundred miles of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path in five days a report of which, space permitting, will appear in a future edition of THE GAZETTE. The Potential Officers Course finishes this week and the Company turns out six well trained ' hopefuls ' who are going forward to the Regular Commissions Board shortly. The Com- pany will miss being regailed with tales of exploits on initiative tests and a number of radio and TV personalities—indeed a couple of lady strippers, will be pleased to hear that that phase is at an end! English Police Stations will miss the plaintive pleas to ' Stamp our test sheet please!' The six hopefuls go with our best wishes for their future. Finally, (and for his dad) we must mention the Second-in- Command, Captain Dick Carman. Welcome to Lance Corporal Peace and family, and to Private Hall fresh from the factory. Farewell to Lieutenant ' P i p ' Wilson and his wife Pauline. Our congratulations to WOl Elsey BEM and W02 Esser on their recent promotions. — 225 — South West District THE Moratoriums-bites even deeper. Supply Management are contemplating merciful ex- tinction on a funeral pyre of Immediate signals and financial instructions, Combat Supplies have gone ex-Directory, Accommodation Services have gone mad and CRAOC has gone to Jersey—" touring, no contact address, don't call me I'll call you." Organisation/ Administration view the turmoil with ben- evolent tolerance and non-existent overtime. Major Reg Frisby almost had a heart |
| Book number | R0404 |