RAOC Gazette - page 178
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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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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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,- on, Willis and their wives. Major General and Mrs then visited 1st and,2nd Armoured Divisions and on his i rning the Representative Colonel Commandant came to p. Headquarters and addressed the CCRAOCs Quarterly Terence before shooting off to me Base. Hxerci.se Summer Sales took place earlier this month when KJquEirters RAOC was 'split 1 for the first time. The Supply orations Cell remained with Corps Rear Headquarters in portable cellars and the Command Post skimmed it in a y muddy location * in the field." Returning to more peaceful pursuits, W02 George Mathers I staff Sergeant Dai Green have each taken delivery of Audi c;irs, following the lead of Brigadier John Skinner, Major v Patrick and Captain Tony Parry. Whose got the Diesel, -•-.red gearbox model though? In fact, they are all to different <_ .cations in the interests of uniformity and standardisation! finally, we warmly welcome Mrs Marjorie Harris to •lefeltl with Sam (another Black Labrador), we say a fond ewell to Lieutenant Colonel Dan Putt now resident at the prentices College and give our best wishes to Captain Tony rry and Nora who married this month. \FF CLERKS. We feature in this contribution the hard work- Clerks of the Receipt and Despatch Centre which is headed Corporal Liz Greasley the NCO TC who in a recent Con- . i'm\ Report was discovered to be better than the assistant ,e S03 (Headquarters Coord). Is she after his job we ask? Her 2IC is Lance Corporal Ann Gaskell who runs the urier and Signals room and also takes care of the receipt and tribution of publications. She is assisted by Private ' Johno * inson who turns out to be quite a sportsman as he has taken cricket, football and swimming since he arrived recently. Other personnel of the R and D are Lance Corporal Tony illie who at present is our postman while Corporal Bob wart RPC is on leave, Private Tim Pool who although he i only been with us a short while looks forward to a posting to 'them Ireland later in the year and Bombardier Mick Home ) is our Accommodation NCO and is to be congratulated on recent promotion. On the civilian side we have Mrs Pat Walker who runs our orographic machinery and Mr Tony Hines who is our in- erator operator and stationery storeman and in his l spare le y organises our social functions. Away from R and D we have bid farewell to Staff Sergeant te John and Corporal Ian Nelson and we welcome Staif rgeant Eric Robinson from Preston and Lance Corporal John II from Northern Ireland, Finally, we must not forget the recent spate of promotions our new establishment having been approved. We there- 'e congratulate the following on their promotions: WOl John gan, W 2 Bill Rule, Staff Sergeant John Foey, Sergeant Steve imp and Corporal John Heath. 1st Armoured Division DESPITE rumours to the contrary Head- quarters RAOC is alive and well. At least we think we're alive, having just done an APFA assessment under the eagle eye of Major Ted Walcroft (wonder if the Ap- prentice College would have him back?) Mind you, the sight of Private Kev Davies bumping his head on the floor when doing trunfc p2iS*^r3E(SST^ curls made it all worthwhile. Lance r^%£15>*^» Corporal Dave Cook lost weight specially to enable him to do heaves to the beam. The reason for the long delay in submission of these notes LS Exercise Summer Sales. Having just welcomed our new 'LAGC Lieutenant Colonel Keith MuHins a few very hectic Mks before the exercise, his only comment at the end was " is always like this?" Later CRAOC awarded Sergeant John nsom the Golden Blanket for devotion to bed. Major Myles 'eenhalgh on his final exercise led a packet from Logistic Head- art ers off his map, took thirty kilometres to find his new ;ation which was five kilometres away and then discovered it the 14 Topo Squadron map truck was in the packet We d to borrow Corporal Aussie Poole and Private Yorkie :>aksey from the Ord Company for the exercise. We're not re why but Corporal Poole wants to come up to join us and vate Hoaksey looked very exhausted. Must be the air. So as not to break a tradition we thought that Corporal ck Falconer would like to know that the lights worked even ough Lance Corporal John Price's language was unprintable lien he heard that Captain Wilson Brewer had fused all the A The Representative Colonel Commandant 7 9 Supply Depot. and Mrs Stanyer at wires together on the way to the exercise area. Nobody knows where the DOWO, WOl Pete Osborne was on the exercise. What we do know is that he said he was at Higher Control and that he came back from there with an Escort load of sleeping bags. We are looking forward to our CRAOCs exercise later in the year as it will be our first chance to try the new ideas which are circulating in 1 (BR) Corps. Whether we find W 2 John Sexton or Sergeant Bob Maxwell is doubtful as they have just been to a Counter Surveillance Lecture and are now highly aware of the art of camouflage. Hopefully though. Sergeant Dick Goodfield will be back with us having been detached on the last job to do something Top Secret. Mr Bill Harold and Mr Peter Thomas our Fire Advisers have been busy recently deploying the Fire Brigade to mop up overspill from fish and chip shops. Perhaps that's why their car never works! We will soon be saying goodbye to Myles and Ann Greenhalgh as they are off to Berlin. We also say good- bye to W 2 Pete Roberts who has gone back to UK for his last six months. He has invited anyone to visit him in Leeds, partly because he'll be in York. I've forgotten to mention Lance Corporal Ranger, there is a rumour that he works here. Finally a quick mention of Major Buz Busby. ORDNANCE COMPANY BY unit standards, it has been a fairly average month. It started . slowly with all hands (except those using their feet at the BAOR Orienteering Championships) clearing away rather a large back- log of empty cases. This was closely followed by Hurst Park, which will leave several members of the Company with fond memories of cavalry cooking* I do not see anyone transferring to one particular regiment! Sergeant Bruce and Corporal Eades are still trying to trace a mysterious W 2 Partridge who was awarded a DCM at one stage of the exercise play. The Divisional Combat Supplies Company was hosted by the Unit for Exercise Power Play and left everyone with a lasting image of a super unit drawn from all over UK and BAOR who worked and played hard—true professionals. They even beat us at cricket. (Doesn't everyone?). We slipped in a quick signals cadre; a driver training cadre and a course to introduce youngsters to the intricacies of operating a bath unit. This was followed by a three day unit NBC exercise in which Second Lieutenant Greathead and Staff Sergeant Duke were given a free hand to arrange realistic activities. They did not make many friends by making everyone sleep in respirators but it was tremendous to take them off at the end of the exercise. A team chased around on the Harz Walkabout and we also had a visit from Colonel Bowden, OIC of the very unit that we try to mention each month in these notes. The lecture was very much appreciated by all ranks who now have a greater under- standing of why Field Marshal's batons (or RSM's pace sticks) are only issued to those born in the correct year! Somewhere along the line, a party slipped away to Kiel to run the annual camp for the local Jerboa Primary School and hordes of officers checked all the unit equipment and accom- modation stores. To bring everyone right up to date, we have been visited by the outgoing and incoming CRAOC, Lieutenant Colonel Pickard and Lieutenant Colonel Mull ins respectively and two days later 147 |
| Book number | R0250 |