RAOC Gazette - page 118
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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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Battalion and Depot, Minor Units and Permanent Slaff, RAOC prentices College. We saw A/Lance Corporal Turner win the -dies, * Strong-man ' Harrison win the shot and discus, Martin o the javciin, Purcell the high jump and ButJer the long jump. acre were many other excellent performances, but we were ill narrowly beaten by ' B * Company. Captain Reid excelled i the hammer easily winning it, with CSM Finch a good fourth. tthcrs giving * their all ' were the OC, Captain Ecclcs, Lieu- :nant Goldie and Lieutenant Johnson. The skiers lived up to early promise with Apprentice Lewis eing second fastest Junior and Captain Eccles second overall •enior. Not to be seen again for some Apprentice Lewis receives the Sranyer T r o p h y for the A p p r e n t i c e Junior f r o m the General himself. fastest- B ' COMPANY. During Benghazi's absence in Berlin for the Freedom of Spandau the College inter-Company athletics took place and ' B ' Company still managed to retain the Athletics Cup for another year. This competition followed on from our Company inter-Platoon meeting in which Balaclava came out winners. Special mention must be made of Brunei's efforts, as, with only eight Apprentices, they still managed to compete in all the events, including the tug-of-war. Immediately after the athletics, ' B * Company departed for College Summer Camp at Penally, Tenby, The weather was not as good as previous years but, nevertheless, this year's Camp lived up to the high standard we have become used to. Apart from the three day exercise in the Frescellies* activities were based on adventurous pursuits rather than the military ones. They included parascending, canoeing, swimming, sailing, abseil- ing, fishing and visits to places of interest around the Tenby area. Congratulations are in order for Lieutenant Roy Dempster on the announcement of his marriage on the 8th August 1981 to Sergeant John Woodcock on passing his EPC(A), and to CSM John Robertson on his selection to RSM in September. Well done! Our new Recruit Platoon formed up as Bruneval Platoon and Balaclava, Brunei and Berlin departed for Wales for their External Leadership Training Camp. Reports of which will be published next month. Burma Platoon have just returned from Ardingly where they were involved in the South of England Show. A report with photographs will appear next month. We welcome Captain Tochi Marwaha, Lieutenant Trevor Piper and Sergeant John Kreft into * B ' Company and we wish them enjoyable tours. TRAINING BATTALION AND DEPOT TRAINING COMPANY OUR congratulations go to the shooting team (which was drawn out of a hat at District) who won the GOCs Match at the recent SEDSAM. Notable personalities were CSM Dusty Miller and Corporal Pete Marson. Under the watchful eye of CSM Evans, the Training Centre Shooting Team is now busily preparing itself for RASAM and hope to follow up the successes of the team n SEDSAM which included Second Lieutenant Bob Ling gaining «hird place in the YOs Competition and Sergeant Smith gaining second place in the pistol. The OC, Major Jim Keating, followed up his participation in the shooting team by attending the June Senior Management Course at the School of Ordnance. He informs us that he en- time. joyed it, despite a competition amongst other students to see who was first in to have forty winks at the sight of yet more vufoils being shown to get over the subject matter. Despite all the distractions he managed to pledge his support, in his final presentation, to the new proposed MTI Roll which we hope will get off the ground soon and be a benefit to the Corps and all concerned. We have just had another inter-platoon novices boxing competition which was won by Gibraltar Platoon, Our con- gratulations go to all boxers who participated in the competition for the excellent entertainment they provided along with their guts and determination. Well done to all boxers. Our thanks also go to QMSI Ron Spree for his usual excellent organisation and to all the officials who took part, including CSM Dusty Miller who acted as MC for the evening, Due to the recent slash in recruiting, we have seen the last occasion that we are likely to ever have six recruit platoons (all two hundred and twenty of them) undergoing basic training at the same time again. What a difference it will be when Major * Jim' hands over the Company to his successor on 6th November that only boasts one platoon. I would just like to remind Captain Malcolm Jenkins and all of Admin Company about the one wicket thrashing that was dished out to them by the hands of Training Company, with the winning text book shot being made by Gorgeous Gordon, ably assisted by Messrs Keating, Parrot, Gilman, Baillie, Hamil- ton, Egan, Marson, Crawford, Shrehorn, Warburton, Wolfe,' Loynes and Wilde. CYPRUS PLATOON formed up thirty nine strong. By week two, a few had fallen by the way-side unable to adapt to Army life. The platoon now shaping well had its first major test, the inter platoon boxing, needless to say the whole of Cyprus Platoon volunteered, (with a little prompting of course) this was soon down to sixteen. We finally ended up with nine, of which, five reached the final. Namely Privates Basher Fennell, Punk Hayes r Gory Gall, Hurricane Haughton and Punchy Williams, our overall result was second, a creditable result—well done. The platoons next task was to pass off the square, this was achieved in week five, followed by a long weekend. On return there were cries of " Sarge, my kit was nicked at the railway station " there was Tucker on his knees praying, " Thank God for Kit Insurance!". This he had only taken out the previous week* The platoon now looks forward to week eight when we shall be off to- Hythe for a weeks Range Camp, where hope- fully we shall achieve some passes in the APWT and we hope the weather will be favourable and the entertainment fruitful. DELHI PLATOON. At last, after a short pro-tem the in- famous Delhi Platoon have formed and are now well into the first quarter of their training. The platoon staff had to be given a refresher course in MTI duties and are coping well under the strain. In week two Lieutenant Argyle and Sergeant Eric Blunn took the platoon on a weekend of adventure training in East Grinstead and were involved in a small community project on a nearby farm. We have said farewell to Corporal Alan Zycinski who has been forced to pack his kit and move to Bracht. Thanks for all you've done. We hope Marian and yourself have a great tour. Lance Corporal Pete Plimmer is now |
| Book number | R0250 |