RAOC Gazette - page 252
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Colour | No |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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United Kingdom Land Forces Photo PR 3 Royal Anglian. W O l (Cdf) John Kenwright is presented with his Lang Service and Good Conduct Medal by the Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Mike Watts. Fund. The Fire Brigade had thoughtfully plugged into the hot water system! and ensured that the group were given a warm welcome back after their efforts, which collected a sum of £40. After a recent fashion show outing the wives club in Kinnegar have decided to take advantage of our rapidly expanding gym. The girls have re-named it 'Cas's Health Studio' and now gyrate to the latest pop music under the watchful eye of Sergeant Cas Castillo who, in turn, is carefully watched by his wife Susan. Not to be outdone the wives at the ASD in Ballykinlar have joined Corporals Colin Thompson and John Ridley on expeditions across the Mourne Mountains leaving their forlorn husbands literally holding the babies. The Supplies SD has a new sound breaking the deathly silence as the ghostly helmeted and gauntleted figure of Private Mark Riley creeps around the Depot on his sparkling new motor bike. Why creep you may well ask? Alas, between the time of him leaving the Depot to collect his bike and returning in triumph PSA had installed a ' sleeping policeman ' and poor Mark gave an involuntary but passable imitation of Evil Knevel during his lap of honour Captain Mike Pether wants the Corps to know that he has shaved off his moustache. This action was timely in that Mavis Kirke had just started a petition to have the offending stubble removed. On the keep fit front the Supply Depot have presented the ' Slimmer of the Month' award to Staff Sergeant John Bishop and Private Eric Beattie who are shedding their former rotund silhouettes under the watchful eye of former Olympic Gold Medallist Mary Peters. Lance Corporal 'Piggy' Horsman has taken the cheaper option at Kinnegar where under the threat of no promotion and the whipping and shouting of Sergeant Castillo he has achieved the impossible. He passed his BFT. Lieutenant Tony Brown thought we should have a com- mercial spot and like most things there is the good news and the bad news. First of all the bad news. The results of the current review of working hours shows that we each average over eighty hours a week with some actually recording a stagger- ing one hundred and twenty one hours a week. The good news is that having to work all those hours means that we save money, did superbly well in the recent promotion lists and leave on posting to the most exotic places in the world. If you are bored in your present job and want to feel you are doing some- thing worthwhile do come and join us! The mystery of the month was definitely the missing twenty four hours of Miss Chaddy Beatty our Work Study Practitioner who on a British Airways flight ended up in Paris instead of London. She is now trying to claim one day's FSA to com- pensate for the fact that they would not let her into the duty free lounge because her ticket only said Belfast to London. We branched out into show business during the month putting on a CSE show in the VSD. Staff Sergeant Jeff Vincent transformed a vehicle shed into a theatre where an impressionist, comedian and three gorgeous girls provided some splendid entertainment for all. Welcome to Lance Corporals Lamb and Taylor, Privates Sparkes and Russell. ORD BRANCH MOST of the action this month is with the Chief Ordnance Officer. He is in Canada at present with the Ordnance Company j a the British Army Training Unit Suffield. With hardly time to take off his Arctic Parka and snow boots he will take off for the sweaty jungles of Belize. These are not exactly jolly little 'swans' as in each case, due to the stringent controls on visits, he is required to undertake both the annual Technical Inspection and the Annual Ammunition Inspection, It's a very hard and exacting way to get a look at Units over- seas and to see the RAOC personnel in them. The Lieutenant Colonel Ops and Plans, Don O'Hare, has returned from a prolonged tour in BAOR on Exercise Bold Guard and may well have tales of hardship and endurance to stir the hearts of men—but not in this issue. The Chief Clerk W02 Braithwaite will spend much time between now and April 1979 preparing for what must be one of the most exciting and desirable of appointments still open to RAOC personnel—that of Staff Clerk Brunei. That and pro- motion too. His relief comes from Washington USA, That cannot have been too bad a tour of duty either. W02 Clemow will be with the branch in January. Major John Hawkins arrived from BAOR and we hope he will enjoy his tour of duty, he should, a benevolent MOD have also posted his wife to the Headquarters for a similar tour of duty. Headquarters Scotland IT has once again been a period of in- tense activity here in Scotland. No sooner had the Tattoo ended than we were launched into what can only be described as * Exercise Whisky Galore/ controlled most ably by Major Reg Frisby on behalf of SS A FA. Having obtained from various distilleries several enormous bottles of whisky, very generously donated we hasten to add, he launched s Whisky Galore' on the unsuspecting RAOC Units throughout Scotland. The resulting raffles raised over £400 for the SSAFA Christmas Fair. (Beat that if you can!) Our thanks must go to everyone who parti- cipated. Incidentally the second prize, a wee bottle of whisky, was won by—yes it had to happen—the controller! The Chief Clerk is still waiting for his nip? Photo Major Roynon Jones. Winner of the big bottle in the SSAFA Christmas Fair Draw* Sergeant Bunn RAMC, with the organiser Major Frisby and the CRAOC Lieutenant Colonel Connolly* The raffles raised over £400- Launched into the annual CPX, which this year took place in a renovated wartime bunker, most of the Ord Branch Staff have been absent from their usual desks given up in aid of — 206 |
| Book number | R0247 |