RAOC Gazette - page 324
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Material type | Journals |
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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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i.X flight plan he is interested in is the one from Dortmund to CVD Ashchurch. it's the only plan I've seen which has g jf courses marked instead o( Airfields. Our Master Butcher Sergeant Roy Lancaster, is also flying shortly, in his case to Hong Kong on well deserved promotion. To both Ron, Roy and their respective families we bid bon voyage and best wishes for the future. last, and in every way least, I have to mention our 21Q having transferred into the Corps from the RE ME he can, f suppose, be forgiven but his diary is that full of leave and courses for the next six months we are thinking of turning his office into a storeroom which will at least put it to good use. 4 t h A r m o u r e d Division Brigadier Whalley operating the Apple N Computer under the watchful eye of Sergeant Mac Lindley with Brigadier Skinner looking on. Major Richard Rhodes, WOl John Davy, W 2 Danny Kelly, Sergeants Mick Sharkey, Mac Lindley, Lance Corporal Simon England and Private Paul Seeney forming the C Sups and Mat Cells. With the new office block extension having been completed at long last. Headquarters RAOC is now under one roof and our thanks go to our civilian members of staff for ensuring that the move of offices went smoothly. Finally we say bon voyage to the DOWO, WOl John Davy on retirement posting to Bicester and to our Chief Clerk WOl John Malin to Old Dalby. To you both we say a big thank you for all that you have done for us during your time here in Korbecke. We extend a warm welcome to Mrs Wendy Paulter who replaced Mrs Heather Walker. STORES PLATOON 5 ARMOURED WORKSHOP WITH the vehicles not yet washed down and organised chaos still prevailing, here come the stories from Exercise Red Clay- more, to rival even those from the News of the World. Red Claymore was the last exercise in 5 Armoured Workshop for our OC, Captain Jeremy Parsons who is moving down the road to Dulmen, so we welcome Captain Jim Wilberforce to his new job here. Other departures are Sergeant Steve Halliwelland and Lance Corporal Bruce Norrie while we look forward to seeing Sergeant Weaver and Private Bibby as their replacements. Meanwhile back to exercise, and as usual we had our fair share of incidents, Sergeant Mel Cook learning a couple of new tricks; like how to be a Recy Mech driving a Crusader (he's pushing for trade pay now) and how to smoke a pipe at NBC Red (he only charges DM5.00 for the secret). Private Geordie Cranny almost ruined his exercise when he threw, accidentally he claims. Lieutenant Bob Scurfield's boots on the rubbish truck, fortunately for him they were found in a deep fat fryer back in camp, One of the firsts for a iot of people was an M2 bridge river crossing, it would have gone off smoothly had everyone stayed awake, but chasing ten tonners around Germany at 03.00 hours tended to put the dampers on it; there was no real problem though, they all turned up before ENDEX, Back on rear party duties, Private Gordon Jones became a father for the second time with another baby girt to his credit, congratulations to him and his wife. And finally a word of commiseration for Staff Sergeant Bob Davidson who missed out on his beloved golf for a whole month—we hope he recovers soon as he's very touchy at the moment not a happy man. 86 SUPPLY DEPOT SINCE our last GAZETTE Notes we have had the pleasure of welcoming our new OC, 2IC and CQMS. We bid a warm welcome to Major Richard Bird, Lieutenant David Martin and Staff Sergeant Eric Scott respectively. At the time of writing the Depot is in the last throes of its involvement in Exercise Red Claymore. The CQMS is slowly descending from thirty thousand feet but is encountering un- expected turbulence on the way down. Our Depot Supt W 2 Ron Anderson, is not worried about turbulence as the only I THIS month we say a sad farewell to WOl ^^fl|^^ John Witter, the DOWO, who is return- ^^H^^^k ing to the UK now nearly at the end of his ^^^^^^^^ service. Our best wishes go with him. ^^^^^^^H Congratulations go to Lance Corporal ^^^^^^^m Ian Portman on officially transferring from ^^^^^^F the Royal Artillery and also to WOl Tom ^^M^^ Burke (call sign Magpie) and Lance | Corporal Richard Wilson on promotion. WOl Burke now takes over the appointment of DOWO vice WOl Witter. Exercise Certain Encounter began and finished with the Headquarters playing enemy (without trying) to great effect against the US Forces. During the exercise W02 Harry Butcher was introduced to the mysteries of the talking torch and radio in the box body office vehicle, with which he confused himself and everyone else. He claims that on the next exercise he will be selling tickets to spectators. It seems that since the exercise everyone is speaking with American accents. Minor matters which have occurred during the month in- clude Corporal Hogg's paper posting—is he getting disturbance allowance? The great escape of the month occurred when W02 Butcher managed to get away from the Mat Office to compete in the Signals cross country race. C Sups, the most hard worked department in the Head- quarters (Major Richard Jarman's quote), have had their normal hectic period with Major Jarman going to the UK and coming second in the Corps squash championship and Lance Corporal Rees going to Spain and coming back: with injuries instead of a suntan. Congratulations to Sergeant Bob Sacre on exchanging his new MGB GT for a DM1,000 Beetle fast back. Alladin heaters are now being inspected in preparation for winter exercises to come and Magpie is wondering how many parkas he can wear at once and still have enough to issue out Lance Corporal Ian Portman is welcomed into the Corps on transfer from the Royal Artillery. |
| Book number | R0250 |