RAOC Gazette - page 199
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1980 |
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| Early date | 1980 |
| Late date | 1980 |
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ORDNANCE COMPANY CRAOC's Exercise First Race has come and gone. Somewhat cold but never the less quite enjoyable. The Coldstream Guards have still not recovered from their attempted attack on our location or the deliberate ambush set up on the wrong road! The Ordnance Company returned to barracks, March arrived and it finds us split into platoons looking more like the Training Battalion and Depot than a Field Force Unit, with Platoon Commanders getting ready for an inter-platoon com- petition as part of the ARU inspection (to include drill, map reading, NBC, first aid and a march and shoot). To make matters worse, Keenwind has hit BAOR with a vengeance, in- volving us all. The Unit shooting team went down to Dulmen and returned with the Championshot, the runner-up Championshot, runner-up Champion Unit, first in Unit Pistol, second in the SMG competition and fourth in the SLR competition. (The Champion Shot was overheard asking the current price of silver on the open market). We welcome Sergeant Pickitt, Corporal Woodhouse, Privates Mitchell, Lenaghan, Lewis and Cassidy, and hope their stay will be a pleasant one. Adventure training is the name of the game, and over the next couple of months, this is the goal we are heading for—open air, sun and adventure. STORES PLATOON 7 ARMOURED WORKSHOP NOW Spring has arrived in Fallingbostel the Stores Platoon has sprung into action getting ready for the COs exercise. In spite of said action the Platoon still finds time to play football. Both Bigg's Bouncers and Wilmot's Wanderers picking up semi- finalists medals in the Workshop five-a-side competition. Private Mason showed excellent goalkeeping skills when in the semi- final ; the game was so close it had to be resolved by penalties. Result; Stores Platoon five—Workshop two. Lance Corporal Biggs also excelled by scoring the two winning goals for his team in their semi-final. Our recent arrival in the Mechanised Transport, Private Gosney, while on detail, was asking directions at a certain lay-by when he seemingly broke down. He is now telling everybody that he is a man at last. Captain Kerr has now departed to England on his JDSC. We wish him well. Lance Corporal Snelson has at last returned from his 1ED Course with a very high mark—Well done Lance Corporal Snelson. A good night was had by all at the Platoon stag night at the local bowling alley. Another is hoped to be arranged in the near future. Congratulations go to Private and Mrs Steve Farina on the birth of their daughter Claire, and to Lance Corporal Davenport on promotion to Corporal. 79 SUPPLY DEPOT MANY of you may have heard of ' The Magnificent Seven,' but now, from the fighting 79th, has emerged 'The Magnificent Four' led by—no not Yul Bryner—but our OC Major Andrew Byles with his gunslingers WOs2 Dave Timms and Gary Divers with Sergeant Charlie Cannings riding shotgun. The four caught the morning stagecoach bound for Haltern Ranges and the ' RAOC BAOR Shoot.' Considering that the four only had three short days of practice the results were very good, the outstanding one being by W02 Dave (Crockett) Timms finish- ing first in pistol and twelfth in the rifle sections. However the team did so well on the whole that they are now entering the 1st Division Shoot (Look out 1st Division). The Depot echoed a sigh of relief as the Defence Auditor left with no complaints and now we are preparing for Exercise Crusader 80 so there are no dull moments. The Depot Superin- tendent W02 Gary Divers and his family are settling in well, although his car is in bad health (it's a Volvo). Perhaps it's because he puts the BFG certificate back to front on the wind- screen. Sergeant Roy Finer has just come back from leave to find his Second-in-Command Corporal Tony Morton, away on edekation (sorry—edukaytion). Sergeant Keith Marshall has just returned from Exercise Snow Queen and has handed his skis to Corporal Peter Waddington who is just going. The butchery staff Sergeant Ray Pembroke and Corporal Mac Mclntyre are hoping for a new refrigerated chamber and have sore knees to prove it. We say farewell to Corporal Mick (The Marmalizer) Naylor and his family and wish them well on their new posting in Nienburg. — 392 2nd Armoured Division ^ • • H H I H HEADQUARTERS RAOC ^P^^^^^V^H THE exercise season has starte'd afresh ^L'_^^^r^k. ^ 8 and 'h c majority of Headquarters RAOC ^^^^fco^^^^H arc participating in Exercise Crested ^P^^^^^H|^H ' Eagle. As we haven't returned to UK V^T^^^^^^I summer time, Zulu time has created a W^K^^VJV M thirteen versus an eleven hour shift ^^^^^^L^^fl system. All those on the night shift are HHI^^^HHfll bemoaning the extra hours spent in > Bielefeld. Iron Band 8 is rapidly ap- proaching and the brains arc working extra hard to devise a totally new exercise aimed at the lower echelons. Hopefully, we will be able to produce photographs of Colonel Thinsky our Russian interpreter for next months GAZETTE. Major Jamicson and Sergeant Pittman have the leaving syndrome and break into shrieks of laughter every time some- one mentions Crusader 80. Perhaps they are leaving some nice tasks for their successors. The GOC recently presented W02 Allport with his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Chief now has a second medal to hang beside his GSM with its three bars. For those who know him it was well wetted! The Adjutant has finally moved to Lubbecke and we welcome his wife Terry to the Stadt. ORDNANCE COMPANY A BIT short on news this month, but what there is, is good. The tug-of-war teams, who already this year were runners-up in the six hundred and forty kilos at the 22 Air Defence Regi- ment RA open meet, have been hard at it again. At the Osna- bruck Garrison Open meet they won the six hundred and forty kilos and were only beaten in the five hundred and sixty kilos by 50 Missile Regiment RA who are the current Army Indoor Champions. A point worthy of note our six hundred and forty kilos team went throughout the whole competition without losing a pull, winning a total of fourteen pulls and amassing maximum points. The Corps Shooting Competition (BAOR) took place at Laveshum ranges this year and turned out to be a real nail biting affair for the Unit team. Lance Corporal Henry did exceptionally well coming joint first in the SLR and winning the Individual and Rank and File trophies after an exciting shoot off. The pistol team Lieutenant Stein, Corporal Hood and Private K. Black also surpassed themselves but were just pipped to the post by 1st Armoured Division Ordnance Company in the pistol team event. Nonetheless all bodes well for the 2nd Armoured Division meet in May and I look forward to report- ing the outcome. Lance Corporal Henry of 2nd Armoured Division Ordnance Company, winner of the Rank and File Individual Rifle M a t c h . — |
| Book number | R0403a |