RAOC Gazette - page 85
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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District, to Staff Sergeant Pete John who is now PA to COS and to Private Lemon who has now joined forces with R and D. Away from G3 (Ops) we welcome W 2 Les Marden the new PA to the Corps Commander on his posting from MOD and bid farewell to W02 Mark Cockram on his posting to UKLF. We also congratulate Mark on his selestion for pro- motion to SSM on the recent board. Other selections which deserve our congratulations are Staff Sergeant Bill Rule and A / W 2 Les Marden to SQMS and Sergeants Dave Craze and John Foey to Staff Sergeant. 1st Armoured Division HELLO folks—Guess who! This month has been a testing time especially for our Adjutant, Captain Wilson Brewer, who, on returning from Exercise Hurst Park found that he had passed his PQs2 exam at Staff Level. Well done Sir. Congratulations are also in order for Lance Corporal John Price on his recent promotion* rfSgwgg*^^^•gi5> The exercise went well and all con- iff~*<4!QS& ^T& cerned are now busily preparing for Summer Sales with Lance Corporal John Price doing the Ops Clerk job his work is cut o u t Events that stick in our minds from Exercise Hurst Park are:—Day one— Captain Wilson Brewer breaks table, lights work; Day two— The battle begins, no NBC yet! The lights still work; Day three—Captain Wilson Brewer breaks kettle, he's having a good time, no NBC yet—but the lights are still working; Day four— Major Ted Walcroft leaves the. exercise area to return to Verden, he unanimously gets awarded the Golden Blanket Award. NBC Red! the lights still work and its raining; Day five— ; Lance Corporal Paul Ranger complains about getting wet in his sleeping bag, he will sleep out in the open, silly boy. Endex is called and we all move back to Verden, the lights still work. Who says our exercises aren't exciting. The other noticeable events of the month are the departures of Major Jeremy Baines to Bielefeld and Sergeant Geordie House to the FAMTO Stores and Mr Stan Talbot, our DFA to AJdershot and last but not least Corporal Jock Falconer (my- self) back to Devizes, so this is my last effort at attempting to write these notes, who knows the Adjutant may even write next months if he can borrow a pen! Finally we welcome Mr Bill Harold our new DFA, to the 1 Hot Seat,' we hope his stay in Verderi will be a happy one. A ORDNANCE COMPANY BRIGADIER SKINNER, CCRAOC, accompanied by CRAOC visited the Company for a day recently. The occasion was high- lighted by the presentation of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Corporal Roberts, rebadging of Lance Bom- bardier Grindrod into RAOC and presenting trophies to the unit Cross Country team. The programme concluded with a potted sports competition during which Private Mason modelled his own idea in sports wear! With barely a pause for breath, Commander 7 Armoured Brigade carried out an Annual Administrative Visit to confirm that the unit really is 'first in everything,' It must be hell being second I There was an anxious moment when the Brigadier picked up a voucher in PC and A and asked to select the stores but with Private Malcolm's help he emerged from the depths of a vehicle with stores triumphantly in hand. The shooting team did not repeat last year's spectacular successes in the Divisional Skill-at-Arms Meeting and had to be content with runners-up in the pistol cup and L M G pairs. Splendid efforts were made by Staff Sergeant Kelly and Sergeant Bruce who almost overcame the disadvantage of having had all our range allocations for the last three months pinched by the infantry (operational priority)—who then won at the Divisional Meeting (Surprise, Surprise). A company dance was held in the gymnasium. Con- gratulations to Captain Storey, Staff Sergeant Burnett and a host of volunteers who turned the evening into what is freely admitted to being ' the best ever/ It could be that the in- jection of a score of nurses from BMH Hannover had some- thing to do with it, and judging from the number of cars that chased down to Hannover the following weekend, Spring must be in the air—which is where we came in, Losses to the Company of Sergeant Corless and Lance Corporal McAulay have been offset by Lhe gain of Sergeant Carr, Corporal Brown, Lance Corporal Moran and Private Angliss and, of course, the new Mrs Mitchell. Welcome to them all. STORES PLATOON 1 ARMOURED WORKSHOP HAVING had a slightly slack month we were going to declare war on RockaM. but no-one could find the place so we decided not to bother. Instead we took on 3 BAD in the DOS cup semi-final: emerging as the winners by one goal to nil. We have had special authority to employ four new civilians to deal with the extra workload from 59 Station Workshop. Mrs Marie Houchen and Mrs Helen Smith have joined us on the clerical side and Messrs Mike Wilkinson and Gino Seisun have come to help in our storehouse. Private Harvey joins us from the Training Depot. Lance Corporals Tony Mason and Alan Knight are off to pastures new. The RAOC Chipmunks are finally off to Ireland, Best wishes from all of us to all of them. W02 Tony Collins has promised to let me have a few lines for next month. Sergeant Dave Green will be toiling to write using the last candle to see by (it's these cuts you see!), and finally Cyril? And finally Esther, the answers to last months quiz. Con- gratulations are due to (excuse ranks please) Graham Donohue, Jim Blues and Brian McCartney on passing their HGV2. Alan Knight and Jim Blues for passing the bike test (as did the 2IC1). 87 SUPPLY DEPOT STAFF SERGEANT BRIAN SCOTT recently participated on an exercise with Headquarters 2nd Armoured Division. As a Master Butcher he was a little bit off course acting as a Watchkeeper. We hope he didn't offer too much offal during his stint on stag. We have enjoyed a brief respite from our normal spate of visits and inspections during the last month. We know from our diaries that this is the calm before the storm. The S02 Sup (Combat) from Headquarters 3rd Armoured Division did how- ever visit us to pick our brains and get the right answers for things to come. The recent promotion board has brought joy at last to at least one member of the unit—no names—suffice it to say he has been waiting for several years. Perhaps this will give him that extra spring in his step to pass his BFT. 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