RAOC Gazette - page 299
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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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W u l f e n Station THE two Units which make up our Station Sergeants Mess, FVD and FAD, decided to meet in combat on the soccer pitch recently. We believe this was a result of some political stirring by the resident mole, ' Gct-te' Morrison, who, in order to get a good view of the proceed- ings also volunteered to referee. How wicked can you gel? Alas, his plan went badly wrong when he was forced to play because of a shortage on the FAD side. I'm afraid I cannot put down in writing, in case your wives and children should read, what happened when he came up against those three hard men of FVD—' Big H,' ' Villy' and ' Smiler Stue '—it wouldn't make happy reading! Back to the match—this was a real close affair, the play went from one end to the other. No side gave an inch and in the end the result re- flected just how evenly these two teams were matched—FVD one! FAD six! Everyone got together for a beer and a spot of curry lunch afterwards and all decided—" We must do it again soon." Major Steve Goldring the SSO has just about finalised the Christmas sequence of events. Starting with the Carol Service on the 9th December and finishing with the MSO Serbian Christ- mas on 7th January—Goodness, how are we going to get through it all? A road warning for everyone in Wulfen Station, Staff Sergeant Terry Larkin (CC FVD), after years of falling off his bike, has finally decided to go in for a four wheel job. He is actually buying it from Major David Braithwaite (his OC), ah well—staff clerks will be staff clerks! May we take this opportunity here at Wulfen Station to wish all our friends in the Corps, wherever you may be—" A Very Happy Christmas and all the best for 1981." 154 FORWARD AMMUNITION DEPOT WHAT a quiet month it's been (he says, tongue in cheek!). Apart from the new Commanding Officer arriving creating in- dividual hurricanes and frightening certain people half to death, it's been very quiet. It is rumoured that the new CO intends to stay. He's even put his name on the door! As promised—a report on the Staging Area at Wulfen. After many months of planning by our intrepid marcher WOl John Crawford, ably assisted by W02 Jim Grey and their Man Friday Mr Jacques Ferrari, the chosen area was set up, taken down, moved and guarded in preparation for Exercise Jog Trot. Muscles were provided by elements of the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots with logistic back up by RMP, RCT, RE, Feld-" jaeger and assorted Regiments and Corps required to allow an organisation with the function of moving hundreds of men and assorted vehicles to all points east to proceed smoothly and efficiently. All the visitors were well impressed by the Wulfen Staging (or so they said) and all convoys staging through passed quickly and quietly. A mention must be made here for the ACC who so admirably provided excellent (if one can say that of Compo) sustenance for the BAOR reinforcements. There were great sighs of relief when it was all over, the exercise not the food, as can be seen by the smiles of the persons heading the last convoy out of Wulfen. The last- convoy leaves the Wulfen staging area. Congratulations to W02 Dennis Ahcrn and Lance Corporal Elliott on promotion to those ranks. We welcome Lieutenant Colonel Sharland from RMCS to Wulfen and hope that he enjoys his tour here and also convey the same to Corporal Parsons, Corporal Kirby and Private Hughes. Also Lance Corporal Elliott on his return from Suflield, who reckons he's deserved a holiday. Congratulations to Private Share on his recent marriage and Sergeant and Mrs Woollard on the birth of Caroline. Headquarters Soest Garrison/Task Force Foxtrot THE Task Force deployed on Crusader, and, thanks to the padres throughout the army, the weather was excellent—or was it the fact that the clerks refused to deploy if it was raining? The clerks set to with a will to produce all the urgent necessary requirements of a busy Task Force Headquarters. The speed with which they produced the goods was amazing; coffee was made in seconds, bath runs were organised, sleeping arrange- ments were well established (who will be the winner of the ' Golden Blanket Award'). The cooks tent quickly located, oh! and they did an excellent clerical job as well. Lance Corporal Hughes is happy about the news of his posting to Headquarters 1st Armoured Division. We say fare- well to Corporal Lord the Commanders driver and welcome his replacement Lance Corporal Spurway. To our RQMS W02 Ben Turner DERR currently in hospital we say unanimously " come back ' Bcnjy' all is forgiven." Headquarters Land Forces Cyprus FOR the uninitiated, the Cyprus Walkabout is a two day orienteering competition covering some sixty miles of ground from sea level to six thousand feet and down again in less than twenty four hours total walking time. As a concession the competition is held towards the end of the summer when temperatures drop into the eighties. To even contemplate taking part requires courage, fitness and determination (and some would say the brains of a rocking horse). The members of the Headquarters were delighted when Corporal Kevin Smith not only completed the course but to- gether with the other members of his team finished in a very creditable seventeenth place. About eighty teams entered this year, less than half of whom completed the course. This result is some consolation for Kevin after his team lost on penalties in the final of the Carter Cup Floodlit Foot- ball Competition, held this year for the first time in daylight. This and the sound of Sergeant Hugh Ward^ muttering dark mutters about POL savings are just two of the manifestations of the moratorium currently affecting all aspects of work and life on the Island. Congratulations in this edition are due to Sergeant Ginnette Spicer now ' wife of' Corporal Colin Powell 3 Light Infantry; Lance Corporal ' Little Lyn' Seymour for obtaining an A grade on her B2 to Bl clerks upgrading course and to Lance Corporal Nick Nicholson for passing his RPC2 ' mouth and trousers ' course. We welcome WOl Doug Wherry, our new Super Clerk, Staff Sergeant Terry Houghton, Sergeants Alison Clements and Kay Dalton and Lance Corporal June Bird. We wish them all an enjoyable tour in the land of sun and wine. Regular readers might have noticed a change in style but this is a result of the author appearing on the Corps role for pro- motion to Sergeant and being given the job as a reward, by the Superintending Clerk WOl Wilf Wright. British Forces Hong Kong I N G R O W I N G t o e n a i l s , back-ache and pregnancy symptoms are once again to the fore. Yes, it's BFT time. First, we got the good news: the tests will be taken on Soo Kon Poo sports ground instead of that nasty concrete of Bowen Road. Then we got the bad news: the course at Soo Kon Poo was discovered to be four hundred yards short and is now being extended! Boots, black, DMS, hardly worn, are being taken out of cup- boards, cockroaches evicted and polish once more applied (to the boots, not ). Conversations now seem to end with, " . . . and if it wasn't for my war wound obtained in the First — 240 — |
| Book number | R0404 |