RAOC Gazette - page 40
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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This was quite routine, but upon being asked " where he'd like to go?" the reply of " round through the tyre bay and down to shed one " was, we were all sure, not really where he wanted to go for the next two years—or was it? The DGOS was introduced to Sergeant Legg who was in- structing on the first of eight SSD MHE courses designed to train every soldier, and a selected number of civilians on six different types of operational storehouse equipment. In build- ing two, the graphs on display analysing pre-packing checks caused our C6 some embarrassment, for when asked whether the military or the civilians were best at selections, his allegiance to his twelve years in the service weighed heavily against his twenty five years as a civilian, the outcome of which resulted in, more Irish jargon. Several days before this visit came the annual unit cross country race (The Dulmen Dash). This proved to be so popular, especially to Major Cantor the winner, that quarterly races will now be held, and * B ' Company will attempt to regain their lost trophies. We welcome to the SSD Staff Sergeant Ledmgham who takes charge of the high activity functions in building two, and to Corporal Hoi 1 ins. Staffs arrival in Dulmen will never be for- gotten; not only was his MFO long overdue, but one night his bed actually collapsed and he had to reposition it with a car jack. Would one expect otherwise from a good RAOC tradesman? The DCOS meets the Junior Ranks in the Pen and Stacker. In the Corps shooting championships the unit entered the major units to enable them to submit two teams, and finished up in fourth place. Individually, W02 Nesbit and Sergeant Straughier came third in the LMG Pairs, Major Coleman finished eleventh overall in the Champion Shot listings and b Guest Shot/ Colonel Carruthers, came sixth in the Pistol Match. We welcome in Corporals George Tomkinson and Jim Mc- Niven and Private L Jock * McCaig and the two corporals wives Barbara and Hazel respectively, and hope they enjoy their tour with the unit. INVENTORY CONTROL POINT THE ICP recently held their staff dance. In all some two hundred attended, civilians, military and all their guests. ^ A cabaret and disco was supported by a demonstration of jiving. Captain Don Longmoor seemed to out-shine all the jivers with his own style on the floor, Captain Don Longmoor said his farewells to ICP and Captain Hugh M inch in ton has taken over the post of Supervising Officer. Captain Minchinton vacated the post of OIC Cat 2/3 within ICP and this vacancy has now been taken by Captain Stephen John. Captain John is a newcomer to the RAOC having spent four years with the Royal Artillery. Captain Doug Guest has also left to try his hand with the Commandos. ICP has seen very little of him over the last four months as he spent some twelve weeks in Bavaria as Admin Officer, Snow Queen; then, on his return, he moved to disposals as the ICP representative. Staff Sergeant Joe Hogg arrived to take over a post in Tertiary Depot Control but is now undergoing intensive training under Mr David Dudfield in the Local Procurement Section. Staff Sergeant Pete Marsh has been out again (where does he get the energy from?). In the JHQ twenty five killometre race he came fourth individually, finishing in one hour twenty one minutes. His team (15 Ord Group) were the 2nd Military team to finish (fourth overall). Out of over three hundred com- petitors including National, Civilians and Military teams this was no easy race. FORWARD ORDNANCE DEPOT DOLMEN THE unit Full Bore Shooting Team departed for the RAOC (BAOR) Skill-at-Arms Meeting and returned loaded with silver. WOl Steve Myers and his merry men won the Major Units Challenge Cup, the Rifle Team Cup and the Pistol Team Cup. To add icing to the cake, our eagle eyed CQMS, Staff Sergeant Dave Crabbe won the individual pistol. Talk of roupells, stoppages and ripples (whatever they are) fill the air. The team was WO I Myers, W 2 Baxter, Staff Sergeants Crabbe and Ward, Sergeants Sebbum (runner-up champion shot) and Davies, Corporal Parsons and Private Maxwell. STORES SUB-DEPOT. The gathering of the Irish Clans recently proved to be another milestone in the history of Dulmen. The DGOS was greeted warmly at the SSD by the 2IC and our C6 Paddy Ravenscroft, and in the mystics of the Irish accent, the 2IC was asked about his future plans once commissioned later this year. MOBILISATION STORES SUB-DEPOT. The new men at the top of the shed are * Q ' Craddock who has made his presence felt and is always 'buzzing* around ably assisted by Staff Sergeant Dave Thomas. They have both been transferred from SSD. We also welcome Second Lieutenant Lancaster, who is being guided in the ways of Mob by Captain Sustins. Also arrived are Sergeant McGaghey and Corporal McKiernon. We congratulate Lance Corporal Howes on his marriage and look forward to him coming back to work for a rest, and Lance Corporal Coulter who has now moved on to better things after his marriage, to work in the SSO's Department. Congratulations are also due to Corporal Jeanne on coming second in the unit cross country. Ps ' 'A' Company wiped the ^ board.' Congratulations also to Corporal Hughes on his pro- motion to Sergeant. We say farewell this month to Corporal Tony Pedley on promotion and Lance Corporal Dave Duxbury. PS. The C and A Office is now erected in shed twelve. The BFBS Tower is now erected outside the old C and A Office. Neither of them are working at the moment! 1st British Corps A M^ M^L ^ t ^ ^ ^ £ ^^^ ^ H | ^ F ^B ^r ^ ^ ^ ^m THIS month's notes come from GU G4 and G5 Coord or, for those not yet accustomed to the inter- national brand of gobbledegook, AQ Coord* This is a small but extremely busy branch in what many regard as the back end of the Headquarters. As well as the normal range of AQ subjects we deal with such extra mural activities as Exercise Snow Queen the annual BAOR ski-ing exercise in Bavaria which we run with G3 (Trg) and the Bielefeld Massed Bands Display which ranks with Halle Munsterland and the Berlin Tattoo as one of the biggest military music shows staged in Germany. We have in fact only three RAOC personnel in the branch. Our Chief Clerk /Superintending Clerk/Staff Assistant-to-be WOl Tony Robinson is a very fit single man who is busily polish- ing up his German again with a view to taking the Civil Service Commission Interpreter exam later in his tour. On the Gl or 'A' side is W02 John Thomson. He joined us from Rhein- dahlen in December and was promoted shortly afterwards. Sergeant John Foey runs the ' Q ' or G4 side and completes the RAOC team. We are very capably assisted by five ladies (two in uniform, and three civilians)* and the odd staff officer or two! We are about to move into new offices along with half of the Headquarters. Lance Corporal Karen Quigley who has been here for eighteen months and seen eleven changes of clerical staff, has asked that the new accommodation be fitted with revolving doors to allow for the rapid entry and egress! We welcome Private Kevin Haywood who has joined G3 (Trg) from the Depot. HEADQUARTERS RAOC FAITHFUL readers of our newsletters will have formed two impressions: we exercise a lot and are always having farewell parties. The first is perhaps to be expected. The second—well, we had a pretty big efflux (lovely word) not only here, but |
| Book number | R0250 |