RAOC Gazette - page 38
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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&opaI &rnn> <0rtmante Corpsi TOje journal of tfte ftopal &rmp ©rlmancc Corp* anb &tmp ©rtmante g>ertric£*» anb tfje ©fftrial ©rgan of tfje ftS#C $te*onation jfebruarp 1973 Yolume 59,3Bo. 9 editorial tCfie Cbttor'tf Notice* Editor: COLONEL E. RIDGEWAY, OBE (Retd.J. Treasurer; LIEUTENANT COLONEL H. A, MILLER, (Retd.). SUBSCRIPTION RATES—HOME AND ABROAD 30p per copy, or £3.60 per annum, post free, Orders for monthly sales should reach this oiflce by 9th day of the month, accompanied by remittance for previous month. Cheques and Postal Orders should be made payable to " Treasurer RAOC Gazette" and should be crossed. CONTENTS. The contents of THE GAZETTE are strictly copyright and all rights expressly reserved. The views expressed herein do not necessarily express the views of the Editor or the Corps, therefore no responsibility will be accepted. PHOTOGRAPHS. If it is desired to illustrate news laith photographs, the photo- grapher's name and his written permission to reproduce must accompany the pictures* to avoid infringement of copyright. ENGAGEMENTS, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS NOTICES. These -will be inserted free to all past and present members of the Corps, FOR SALE AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. These must be submitted in the form in which it is desired that they shall be published* Charges: £1 for the first five lines or under, and 15p per line subsequently* Charges must be pre-paid. Box numbers will be allotted if asfeed for. DEAD-LINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COPY. The " Gazette " is published monthly about the 29th of each months and all article^ station News Letters, etc., should reach the Editor by the 29th of the month for publication a month later. " Letters to the Editor" and short news items will, however, be accepted up to the 7th of the mantK Copy should be typed, if possible, and double spaced. EDITORIAL OFFICE: RAOC SECRETARIAT, DEEPCUT, CAMBERLEY, SURREY. (Telephone: Brookwood 4511, Ext. 516.) 3ftibex QTo 0t\)ex $age* For the Record Notices Officers Club Annual Dinner This was our Unit—7 OFP Sports Report Observations by Checker A Year at Camberley Rather Restructured From Chelsea to Bicester And here's a surprising team Station News—Home TAVR Station News—Abroad Association News Postings and Promotions 266 268 and 300 269 270 271 and 273 272 274 275 276 278 280 288 289 298 299 THERE is no doubt that the two issues uppermost in the soldiers mind today are the effects of the numerous defence cuts of recent years and pay—though not necessarily in that order. We still wrestle with the cuts ordered by the 1975 Defence Review as well as those imposed by the 1976 White Paper. For a variety of reasons, mainly to accommodate the loss of manpower entailed, the Army decided to meet the field force situation by restructuring—together with the loss of a number of equipments either postponed or cancelled. Restructuring, so often touched upon in newsletters, is now almost complete but how well will it work? We are in fact watching a new Army evolve—and not necessarily one which one would have through choice. One of the last of our BAOR restructuring changes is recorded on page 270 but understandably, with emphasis on the past. Being something of an optimist in these matters and yet paradoxically, of the view that history tends to repeat itself, I was particularly interested in a letter sent recently to a national daily on this subject, quoting one published in 1909 which read as follows: — The Army is not like a limited liability company, to be reconstructed, remodelled, liquidated t and refloated from week to week as the money market fluctuates. It is not an inanimate thing, tike a house, to be pulled down or enlarged or structurally altered at the caprice of the tenant or the owner; it is a living thing. If it is bullied, it sulks; if it is unhappy it pines; if it is harried, it gets feverish; if it is sufficiently disturbed, it will wither and dwindle and almost die; and when it comes to this last serious condition, it is only to be revived by lots of time and lots of money. The author—Sir Winston Churchill. On the highly emotive subject of pay; the already over- stretched Services, having moved in once again to fill the breach in times of industrial unrest, have by their efficiency, morale and discipline, won for themselves considerable public support. Perhaps, to be cynical, it is just a case, as Kipling wrote, of Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy go away—but its thank you Mr Atkins when the band begins to- play. On the other hand there is no doubt that the constitutional constraint on the Services in stating their own case on pay has been clearly helped by recent publicity. Comparisons are drawn in the Press and, while one cannot reasonably argue against the merit of pay restraint as an alternative to the enormous problems of inflation, we can at least hope that in the final analysis, the soldier gets at least as good a deal as those who seek to gain advantage by using—or by threatening to use —their so called industrial muscle, No doubt we shall see. THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH IN Pensioners—Conductor Joe Thelwell and Sergeant Bill Nicholls, visit Bicester and are taken on a trip to the USAF Base at Upper Heyford. Here they meet the Fl-11 and have quite a time . . . . . . see page 276. — 265 — |
| Book number | R0246a |