RAOC Gazette - page 34
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| Publication date | 1979 |
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| Early date | 1979 |
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Corporal Mick Bland has also rediscovered his pet hate, driving an Eager Beaver Eor four hours in the dark whilst the heavens open up. It is now widely rumoured that he actually shrunk. Records please note to only send pre-shrunk Supply Specialists to this Platoon. Our thoughts at the moment are with the OCs wife Carole Roycroft who has been taken into hospital to have a rest prior to having an addition to their family. We hope they do not keep her there until the baby is due which is not until early January. We welcome Private Ian Webb. STORES PLATOON 22 AIR DEFENCE REGIMENT WORKSHOP WE begin these notes by extending best wishes to members of the Platoon currently serving with the Regiment on Operation Banner. We look forward to their safe return to Dortmund in March 1979. The Mod programme is well on schedule, all concerned seem very satisfied with the progress so far. Full credit to Private John Grice of 53 Battery Section who not only handled the clerical work involved, but all the physical moving of the stores to and from the Mod team. Corporals Steve Hall, Colin Metcalfe and Private Tony Valler have been very busy down the Storehouse doing among other things the re-binning of the vehicles. Recently the Platoon organised a very successful social evening. The l buffet was superb, music for the evening was provided by Mr Backloader' Corpora] Joe O'Rourke. Congratulations to Sergeant Graham Seymour, Corporal Walsh, Lance Corporal Shirley, Privates Valler, Pays, Grice, Mellor, Newman, Winter and Boyce on being selected for substantive promotion. Congratulations to Private Mick Pays and his wife Marie on the birth of their son. Recent postings-in are Corporal Walsh, Privates Last, King and Conway. We hope they enjoy their tour with the Unit. STORES SECTION 61 STATION WORKSHOP WITH a full time staff of only ten, it is surprising how eventful things have been in our little Stores Section. In recent months there has been a one hundred per cent change of military personnel (all two of them) leaving us under the watchful eyes of W02 John Woodward and Sergeant Keith Honeysett. We have two new industrious young ladies, Mrs Audrey Johnson and Mrs Chris Bailes, and at the business end of the section, the rapid turnover of labourers seems to have come to a halt with Mr Trevor Millin, Mr Pete Graham was recently pro- moted to C4 Storeman and Herr Edgar Fricke to C3 Storeman. Frau Susie Trapp, Mr Robert Palliparambil and Mr John Seaman complete our line up. STORES SECTION 26 CORPS ARMOURED ENGINEER SQUADRON WORKSHOP IN the ten months since this Stores Section formed, life has been, to say the least, * interesting * for the soldiers involved. For a period it seemed that we would never get it sorted out, in fact at one time the rumour was that Chilwell was closing down and we were the recipients of their stock. How- ever, it appears that our worries were groundless as we are functioning as a Stores Section and the powers that be, seem to be, dare I say it, * happy.' We have had lots of invaluable help and advice from all concerned and this was of great assistance to us. I would like to name the members of the Section, Staff Sergeant Pat Garrick, Corporal Colin (Gilly) Guilfoyle, Lance Corporal Alistair (Thomo) Thomson, Lance Corporal Norman (The Storeman) Parsons and Private Ken Kynaston. Private Kynaston is temporary attached to_ us. In addition to the military element we also have two Civilian Storemen, Mr Chris Holder and Mr Andy Heeney. STORES SECTION 50 MISSILE REGIMENT THE Stores Section is now returning to normality after the activities of Exercise Hot Line, It is widely surmised that WOl Gauld had words with the other man at the top, for we only had one brief period of rain throughout the exercise, The past few months have also brought the wind of change. We have said farewell to W02 Tom Burke and to Lance Corporal Roger Lister. We welcome Staff Sergeant Dave Cook from Northern Ireland and Private Keith Helsby from Vehicle Depot Ash church. Keith assures us that he will put theory into practise and learn to drive. Both are supply Clerks and join Corporal John (I'm going to Northern Ireland) Blacker, and Lance Corporal Paul Trent who, he assures us is looking forward to his next BFT. Our Supply Specialists are Sergeant Don Learmonth, contender for the BAOR ' ^ v 6 ' Darts Championship. Corporal Barry Jones of volleyball and basketball fame and Private Norman Levett who hope- fully awaits his selection for Englands Football Team nrL w that he i s a B l K ° Lance Corporal Charlie Walker our one and only Driver and * Big Wheeler' insists that we could not manage without him and that he will be sorely missed on his posting to 3 BAPj) in April. Our congratulations go to Corporal Blacker, Lance Corpora] Walker and Private Helsby on their provisional selection for promotion to the next higher rank. Fortress Headquarters Gibraltar THERE may be some truth in the rumour that all Staff Officers have a monkey on their back and judging by the expression on the face of the DAA and QMG, Major A. M. Allkins at a recent Corps photo taken at the Apes Den on the Rock of Gibraltar, it is not a pleasant experience!! The photograph was taken during the visit of Colonel J, Lloyd-Jones, the Inspector RAOC to Gibraltar. Get off my back: Sergeant Andy Bale, W 2 Alan Govier, W O l Bill McNulry, Colonel John Lloyd-Jones, Major Alan Allkins, Corporal Colin Lawrence, Staff Sergeant John Bentley and Major Tony Moore. During his visit Colonel Lloyd-Jones talked to all serving members of the Corps on the Rock, was entertained to lunch in the Fortress Sergeants Mess by all RAOC Senior Ranks and also spent a very relaxed evening with all serving and ex- members of the Corps and their wives at an RAOC (Gibraltar Branch) Association get together organised by the Association Secretary ex WOl Joe Jurado. Joe is a well known member of the Corps Association on the Rock who devotes a great deal of his spare time to Association activities. Farewell to WOl Marc Moody who will long be remembered for his activities in the Joint Services Sub-Aqua Club. We wish him and his wife Margaret all success in SSD Dulman, Also farewell to W02 George Ottley and his wife Pat who have left for Headquarters Northag, George will long be remembered for his enthusiasm and good humour in AQ Branch and his inexhaustable activities as PEC of the Fortress Sergeants Mess. Headquarters Land Forces Cyprus <*-~*SS**s1 <j£ I I jp-i 1 ^^S-yg^j NOVEMBER saw the Land Forces Cyprus Military Skills (Milskills IX) held in the Western Sovereign Base Area. This event is a competition based on a tactical setting which •P|j/"TjHr is designed ^ B r c * WW V | W ^^S^F ^ ^ ^ to test and assess the overall niilitary skills of Units. The competition is divided into two parts. Part 1: participants are selected at random by the competition controller and are tested on their basic military skills such as personal weapon handling, NBC and duties of a sentry. The chosen (?) ones from the Head- |
| Book number | R0247a |