RAOC Gazette - page 42
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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Live and kicking at 79 Supply Depot. 2nd Armoured Division HEADQUARTERS A KEEN wind of change is blowing through the headquarters. We have been hardened and reduced, leapt from box bodies to a tented complex and finally divided ourselves between two locations. Our fleet of vehicles has been reduced to a Land Rover and a box body and rumour has it that our Driver, Private Rollins, believing he would get redun- incy money has bought himself a car. The Combat Supplies 11 has been renamed the caravan club and Sergeant Dunn's :st time from returning from exercise to deploying from ubbecke is ninety minutes. ' It is a pity they can't crashout in lat time * was overheard the other day in the Sergeants Mess ar. On the sporting side we must report that our one hundred to one outsider romped home in third place on the recent Lubbecke iwenty six killometre ridge run. Other branches in the Head- quarters are still trying to find the motorbike that they believe Major Dalley must have used, Our Headquarters RAQC shooting team entered a team for all events in the Corps BAOR SAM, and our unofficial first place in the Divisional Head- quarters RAOC team section pleased our young Staff Clerks who had shot well. Perhaps the other Divisional Headquarters will enter a team next year. Iron Band IX is rapidly approaching and will be even more complex than last year as we have Combat Supplies Company with us. The Adjutant has managed to avoid the exercise by getting himself posted, and we hope he likes the green fields of Andover. Unfortunately, the new Adjutant, Captain Simon Hall will not be here in time to deploy into the field with us, 5 Field Force ^ ^•jrjp*^^ ORDNANCE COUP A NY ^ K M U M ^ ^ * ^ ^ ^ ^ THIS has been a very ^BmJkE^^^^^^^^^^^^ exciting month for the ^^^^^•••••••••••••••••••••••••^ members of the Com- an :nMrSwv ^ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ P y because we WSSSEL^^^^^^^^^^^ took part in an ^ ^ ^ 5 5 ^ ^ ^ ^ exercise; the last •^^^^^ exercise was nearly a year ago! Half of the Company mainly consisting of new mem- bers were anxious T to take to the field and prove themselves while the ' old sweats took it in their stride. The Exercise Lion- heart XV, albeit for three days, really tested men and equip- ment and included a M2 Bridge night crossing (when Staff Sergeant Dave Jamieson eventually managed to find the Weser), •\ five mile march in full NBC kit wearing respirators, helicopter handling and convoy drills. The men came through in flying colours but the same cannot be said about two Bedford MK trucks. The first truck driven by Private Andy Gill was literally rolled off the Autobahn by a * Whoofer * carrying new cars, the good news was Private Gill climbed out from the cab unhurt but slightly shaken, the bad news, the transporter, trailer and six new cars were a complete write off. Private Tariq Rizvi the driver of the second truck had a touch of the 'droopy eyes 1 syndrome and drove into a deep monsoon type ditch* The truck landed on its side but fortunately was not badly damaged, the driver was alright too. Eye witnesses from the Company who saw him climb out of the truck still swear that he had been taking lessons from ' Shakin Stevens.* The next week or so is going to be a very busy time as preparations are going ahead fur the forthcoming Periodic Report, to the uninitiated "ARTJ.* The Staff Inspection went off very well considering all the answers given were accepted. It is worth mentioning that on this inspection the only office floor that was gleaming was the CSMs. In his usual inimitable manner he coerced Sheila the office cleaner into cleaning his office exclusively. Poor girt she had to work hard as CSM John Matthews stood and watched her. 1 had better mention the unit Easter Fayre or the OC will take T H E GAZETTE Notes from me. The BMH Munster desperately need a blood analysing machine in the baby care unit and the Commanding Officer of the BMH asked all COs and OCs in the Garrison to help raise money for this machine. Our OC Major Haden took up the challenge and under his guidance an Easter Fayre was organised. The Fayre consisted of a White Elephant stall, bottle stall, cake and tin food stall, treasure hunt, duck a squaddie in the water, chuck the wellie, danny's dinner and many more. It would be hard to mention names but the wives club ably organised by Mrs Mary Haden put in a lot of hard work and Corporal Danny Cullen along with his wife Joan and helpers did magnificently in danny's diner. Before I got pelted with rubbish I must say that every member of the Company did his bit to help, and everyone worked so hard that the magnificent sum of DM3,000 (three thousand) was raised for the blood analysing machine. Congratulations to all members of the Company and their wives, well done, v : •£&: IX*. rd, . STOCKS ; * » « ow« 'f|S*^ Corporal Davis and the get your own back machine. After the Easter Fayre had closed down one could see a few members of the Company walking around with contented smiles on their otherwise -unsmiling faces. The reason was quite easy to work out. On one of the stalls the OC and CSM volunteered to be in the stocks and have sponges of water thrown at them. The members I mentioned before paid DM5.00 for the privilege of throwing a bucket of water at the OC and CSM hence the contented smiles. Yours truly wanted to have a go but feared reprisals. Our CQMS Paul Thayre can be seen walking about with disgust on his face because the QTO informed him he was not yet ready for his driving test, belter luck next time Paul. Staff Sergeant Ted Curtis disappeared for a couple of days and when enquiries were made as to his whereabouts the 2IC, Captain Burr, politely pointed out that Ted was away in the UK taking part in the ten pin bowling championships. He has now returned but has made no mention of the championships so I suppose |
| Book number | R0250 |