RAOC Gazette - page 311
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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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Private Hovis Brown was granted field promotion and was emoniously handed his tape before his assembled Section. ; e idea worked quite well and I believe he actually reached hie rank of W02 at one stage! The Headquarters element of the Platoon ticked over, well Sergeant Charlie Ballinger ticked. Staff Sergeant Cradleton did an excellent job as CSM and Resident Comedian and Sergeant Ken Ryder kept adding different badges to his beret as he received yet another title (UFO, MTO etc). The FTX phase found the Platoon ready and waiting for action. The first attack was by the Danish Home Army who were promptly arrested by the Gate Guard. They asked if they could • •-y again. This time they hit a trip flare and were met with a til of fire, In their panic they hit another flare and fled, t cwildered. We never saw them again. The trip back was uneventful and it was a tired convoy that drew up on the square at Ashchurch. It had been nice being away, but it was good to be back. VEHICLE DEPOT LUDGERSHALL STAFF SERGEANT BIUAN TOMLIN, Corporal Falconer, Lance Corporals Brian Allan, Tony Devlin and Geordie Mounsey should alt be counting sheep in Wales by now if 48 AMF(L) '" ompany plans work out for pre arctic training, The regimental training weekend is fortunately becoming .1 hazy memory for most of us. They say that any fool can be uncomfortable and we all felt a bit foolish at some time during that exercise. Exercise Live Log is an even hazier memory but Captain John Barrow enjoyed the flash of publicity on television. He claimed, in answer to any critics concerning dress regulations, that the glare of arc lights, Chinook landing lights etc made dark glasses essential equipment. More recently we attended the Remembrance service at Ludgershall Parish Church and paraded with other organisations who gathered to honour the dead of two world wars. Now the holiday social round is overtaking us, the dance this year is on Friday, 11th December, but we trust that you all have a peaceful Christmas and that this year it will be a meaning- ful holy day. VEHICLE DEPOT HILTON AT LAST! WO 1 Bob Harris' long awaited replacement has arrived in the shape of Andy Simmons, ex Sailor, ex Navy Department and straight off the Work Study Course. More to the point, he rides a bike and plays the banjo. Welcome to Hilton, Andy. The Social and Welfare Club undertook a weekend tour to the Lake District. The weather was foul but the company was good. Gin and tonic certainly helped—David Lakin broke all records and polished it off with a Blue Lagoon, whatever that is. How nice to have Mrs Davy, looking very well in retirement, and Mrs Ann Corsham,of Vanteen fame,on the trip. Welcome to Lynn Peerless to Registry—Jane Winter moves to DMAs Office on promotion to Clerical Officer, Jack Harrison from Chilwell to Liaison, Ken East has moved to Light Group and Steve Gray to Pay Office. That man Bill Colbourne is never going to stop; not content with raising four children himself he now has nine grand- children. Congratulations to Rachael Wooley on being offered a Clerical Officer post in the Department of Employment, Burton- on-Trent, but we will be sorry to see you go. Central Ammunition Depot Kineton THIS month has seen the return to Kine- ton from Denmark of 45 (RS) Company —or nearly, because on their return they were deployed for ten days at Bramley during Exercise Livelog. Your scribe can still hear the Company Choir singing * Eskimo N e l l ' even now and often wonders what the significance is. Major Roger Mendham who during * Livelog' acted as Ops Offr, Tourist Guide, Telephone Operator and now as our War Correspondent sends this report on the exercise: The months of planning, studies, briefings and preparations were over and at 0755 on Monday 12th October the first {jacket of sixteen Tonners rolled through the front gate. Exercise Livelog had started! Nine days later the last vehicle returning ammo was processed and a total of over eight thousand tons had been issued and received during the first major mobilization exercise in twenty five years. Ammunition was issued by air and sea. with aircraft and ships taking real issues to the depots in BAOR. and by road to a temporary site in the old ammunition depot at BramJey manned by the 45 R Shadow Company personnel; 156 Regiment RCT, a 'volunteer 1 unit based in Liverpool, provided the outloading vehicles, and 18 Squadron RAF provided three Chinook Heli- copters for an issue and receipt lift to Bramley. The DCOS with W / Private Kineton on Barnes during his visit to Exercise Livelog. CAD The four day outloading phase was followed by five days of receiving stocks back from Bramley. The memories of Exercise Livelog in Kineton include: The Noduff landslide north of Crewe, delaying the trains from Longtown by six hours. The * volunteer' driver wandering through the explosives area, washing kit in hand, looking for the showers. The sound of Terry Wogan blaring out of a drivers cab whilst loading took place. The two loaded sixteen Tonners which became trapped in the fun fair in Banbury. The sight of three Generals, two Brigadiers and other visitors queueing up for lunch in the Central Mess. Congratulations are due to W02 McCoy, the Master Chef, for feeding the large number of drivers and escorts who came through the depot, and to everyone involved for completing the recovery phase one day ahead of schedule. One final question, who was the attractive young Australian lady Lieutenant seen in the Felix Centre on the recovery phase? The WRAC have started the hockey season well with both their \A' and TT teams coming fifth and twenty seventh in the Army six-a-side competition held at Aldershot. W/Lance Corporals Hunt, Edgcombe and W/Private Ridge have been selected to train with and possibly represent the WRAC in the service match to be held later in the year. The last piece of news from Kineton is the fact that our modest QM Captain Connelly has stopped smoking and it is rumoured that he is going to sponsor a IJnit Snooker Champion- ship out of his savings, — 259 Central Ammunition Depot Longtown EXERCISE LIVE LOG, as most will know, was a mobilisation exercise to test the ability of the UK depots and supporting move- ments systems, to outload large amounts of ammo and other stores to BAOR in a short time. Longtown's contribution was about one thousand six hundred tonnes of * saved up * BAOR issues, issued by rail through CAD Kineton on seven special trains. At Kineton the ammo was crossloaded on to road vehicles for despatch to Marchwood Military Port and shipment to BAOR. Fortunately, all went to plan, even the MHE breakdown level was reasonable and despite discovery of a few overloaded railway wagons that had to be re-loaded at the eleventh hour, all the trains were despatched on schedule. |
| Book number | R0250 |