RAOC Gazette - page 195
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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 | 1980 |
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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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3f5eto£ from ^broafcr AFCENT FASTEST moving member of the Corps at AFCENT is undoubtedly Corporal Archie Henderson, currently making a name for himself in the dangerous and demanding sport of rallying. In his twin-cam Toyota Corolla SR 1600 (0.60 in 8.5 seconds) he was overall winner of the RAF Germany Motor Sports Association Rally—the only Army entrant ever to win this event, and third in his class in the British Army Motor Sports Association Rally in BAOR last year. Corpora] Henderson is due to leave us for Minden and we wish him every success for the future. Staying on the sporting scene, the AFCENT Knights Rugby Team are enjoying another very successful season and are well on course to retain the RAFG (Junior) Cup, which they won last year. The team has only a small, but vital RAOC contingent. Sergeant Paddy Stanway is currently in the fullback slot but has been known to come out of defence and create more than a little mayhem with good runs down the centre. Corporal Archie Henderson our Motor Rally Champion. Sergeant Phil Jeffery at wing forward lacks a little height, but certainly makes up for it in speed and aggression, as many opposing scrum-half will confirm. Last but (at sixteen stone) not least, Corporal Trev Galrress is helping to steer the pack at second row, and scoring points as the team kicker. He also has to tear his hair out finding opposition, players and transport, in his capacity as club fixtures secretary. Taking on the Americans at their own game—and failing miserably by all accounts in the Veterans Basketball Com- petition are Staff Sergeants Derek Head, Bob Holroyd, Kevin Hudson, Sergeants Paddy Stanway and Jim Gauld. Good try lads—keep taking the tablets. In recognition of their pathetic performance, Staff Sergeants Head and Holroyd are duly nominated for the next GMD (Geriatric Morris Dancers) course! Proving that ' pen pushers' can still show them a thing or two, Corporal Dave Blagg recently gained top position on an RPC1 course held at Blackdown. Congratulations are due also to Dave Tydeman on successfully overcoming the hurdles of both his RPC1 and Bl, and to Trev Galtress on passing his Bl. The ' Irony of the month award' must surely go to Sergeant Pete Brennen, recently posted from the General Office to the POL Branch of Logistic Division. He almost didn't make it — 388 to work on his first day as his moped ran out of fuel—he has promised to try to do better at keeping NATO supplied! Welcome to Lance Corporal Harry Filtness and family. Congratulations to Sergeant James on the birth of his son David Rhys. Planning and Workstudy Unit A PARTY was held in 89 Supply Depot to say farewell to Uona Schrocrs. For the last four years, the darling of the Unit has brightened our days and sorted out a myriad of problems for us. We all wish that she were not leaving us but send her on her way with our gratitude and best wishes; those who have known her will always remember her with affection. Someone asked recently who SSM Jim Wood is/waS 1 . The answer is that he's the first phantom WSP of Vicrsen—on strength but not at work; one rumour has it that he's driving round Wulfcn trying to find his way out, but another is that he's the first indispensable WSP! Lance Corporal O'Keefe—who occasionally has the time to be our draughtsman—plays rugby without incident every week but on the one occasion he played soccer he broke an ankle. He's now able to hobble to an education course, where perhaps he'll learn his lesson. In the past few weeks we've welcomed the staff of COD Donnington, namely SSMs Kingston and Quinney and SQMS Cornfield; SSM McLarty has joined us from COD Chilwell. We hope they will enjoy their tours in BAOR; they're sure to be better people for the experience! Ammunition Inspectorate BAOR ANY illusions to March and the mad hare syndrome would not come amiss this month. No sooner had we waved ' Goodbye ' to the DLSA Specialist Technical Inspection team when our thoughts turned to the ARU, or for what is euphemistically termed a minor unit's 'Administrative Visit.' The ARU was carried out by Colonel Istead, Col AQ 4th Armoured Division. We survived the first course, a BFT, with honours even. The main dish was a surprise though, in the shape of a heavily booby-trapped car, followed by a much trip-wired barrack block for good measure. An intrepid W02 Bob Cockburn remained undaunted by all this, although Wheel- barrow suffered a severe case of indigestion and declined to stay the course. Before leaving us Colonel Istead rounded off the day by presenting WOl Dave Williams with his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and with it go our congratulations. Our gladiators continue to give sterling service to sport. W02 George Ferguson has been selected for the BAOR hockey side and Captain Andy Williams has shot his way to distinction as part of the 4th Armoured Division Team who are now Army and BAOR champions in the Inter-District Small Bore Target Rifle Match. There have been remarkably few comings and goings this month. However, with so many ' Middle Managers' purveying their new found skills we did succeed in launching WOl Dave Young on his Operation Banner tour. Ordnance Depot Antwerp IN the words of the song, where have all the soldiers gone? Quite a lot of them this month have been consuming the un- expired portion of their annual leave ration it seems, lucky chaps! A few others have been having a virtual holiday on Exercise Snow Queen (I'm just jealous!), including Lance Corporals Ken Meek and Kelvin Chivers, and Privates Brian Clapton and Harold Kerstein. Our marksmen have had an eventful month. The full-bore experts travelled to Sennelager to take part in the RAOC (BAOR) — |
| Book number | R0403a |