RAOC Gazette - page 92
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| Corps | RAOC |
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Colour | Yes |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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Thumbs up for SATOs break. ashtrays too quickly. Private Andy Thomson, who has recently joined us keeps busy and fit running, ski-ing, playing football and squash, and sometimes looking after the Depot's MT. Last, but certainly not least, our saving grace—Mrs Bobbie Mussett— Clerk/Typist by employment but counsellor of wisdom and purveyor of humour in practice, keeps us all up to the mark (but we're not admitting just which mark!). Generally our work—Inspectorate, Depot and EOD—keeps us busy. If we've not been too involved in the Depot, we have found time to clear a suspect booby-trapped house in Nicosia in the Greek/Turkish buffer zone; we've blown up a culvert bomb (and the culvert!) of 1963 vintage and actually done some range clearance at Akamas to clear dangerous items after a civilian scrap dealer was hurt in an accident on this open range. There are always the funnies to have a go at—a dangerous overhang with a wide crack along it on the RAF Akrotiri Cliffs refused to budge despite some well placed charges, and we also helped with some ' instant' bunkers in the rock hard surface of our local golf course. All in the last six months or so. We keep busy one way or another! ASU. The ASA Centenary dinner, held in the Posiedonia Hotel in Limmasol on 14th May was a great success with over one hundred and forty members of our staff in attendance. Captain lean Wafforne feels that he is here to stay and has the following offering from the detachment in Dhekelia As this is the centenary of the ASAs, I would like to point out that we have fifteen ASAs with a total of two hundred and seventeen years service, ranging from two and a half years to thirty years, as ASAs. Six of them have one hundred and fifty six and a half between them—now beat that all you other ASUs. On a personal note, I'm not sure if the sun, sea, sport and topless bathing at Nisi Beach agrees with me, and what is a. Bicester? SUPPLY DEPOT. The Supply Depot has been busy as usual. The re-supply of BRITFORLEB on the weekly Hercules to Beirut is running smoothly even though it is a 3 am start to put the thermo containers, courtesy of Central Catering, on to the Bread Delivery Vehicle, courtesy of TSU, to reach Air Cargo Akrotiri for despatch, courtesy of the RAF. So you see, a task with many possible pitfalls. It has already resulted in the Master Butcher, W02 Seatree (congratulations on your pro- motion ' Q'—sorry about the Falklands though), chasing his Sergeant Butcher Ken Cornwall, down to Akrotiri when he had forgotten to take the vouchers! The UNIFIL supply chain has been running smoothly— we await developments of the signing of the Treaty on the with- drawal of forces from the Lebanon with interest. Congratulations to Sergeant Smith on also being selected on this year's promotion roll, and to Sergeant Hindle for getting his substantive promotion. Late News! Tommy McGurk returns from the Falklands early—obviously the Penguins have had enough of ; him (not that there was a lot to start with!). — 77 STORES AND VEHICLE DEPOT. This month sees activity at the Beach Hut, with WOl Harry Jennings and W02 Chris Bailey organising the painting and refurbishing of it. The beach is also getting a face lift after the winter storms. Our Wives Club Ladies did a sponsored walk early this month in order to build-up their funds, the walk was approxi- mately twelve miles and believe me, it was a rough route, mostly cross-country, up and down hills. The Ladies did very well and collected over £100 for their efforts. The walkers were Ellen Keogh, Maureen House, Val Gemmell, Rose Bailey. Vera Stanton, June Henderson, Wilma Carter, Sharon Stubberfield (1 A and SH), Kim Fordyce, Penny Devlin, June Snowden and Sadie Walker; Sadie didn't walk, she ran instead and made good time. Back from an EP Course is Lance Corporal George Carter; congratulations must go to him for staying awake all through the four week course. His boss, WOl Jennings, reckons that he's had a holiday and is keeping the leave passes locked away. We held a farewell function for Major Bob McCartney in the RAOC Club, this to Major Mac was a complete surprise as he was the Duty Lemon for This Is Your Life. There was no truth in the script but quite a good stage act! On Major Mac's departure at Akrotiri we lined the route as he was driven to the Air Terminal on top or a ferret scout car. Welcome to Captain Wilson who has stepped into Major Mac's place. British Army Training Unit Suffield LIFE in the Company is now settled into its summer routine, crisis after crisis. The latest influx of Temporary Staff are finding their feet: Sergeant Nutman the range AT has found it helps to have the map the right way up; Sergeant Murdoch is learning to type; and Corporals Hunking, Rothwell, Lance Corporal Irving, Privates Arnell, Stanley and Ainsworth are actually losing their feet, running with the OC preparing for a three hundred and fifty mile sponsored run. W02 Frater is writing to Records about the size of his storeman—they're too small to win at volleyball. Ammunition Platoon now has CB safety radios which has meant that they have evolved their own particular form of voice procedure. ' Ten-four big buddy looks like we got us a compound.' Mr Foster has left Ammunition Platoon to work in Calgary- Workshop tell us that the correct name for a Grizzly Bear is Ursus Arctus Horribilis Ord which has led to a search for grizzlies amongst company personnel. There are a few front runners, notably from vehicle platoon whose outdoor winter existence encourages hair growth. More next month. Force Ordnance Company Belize PRIVATE RAY BLISS finally succum- bed to the lure of married life. The wed- ding taking place at San P e d r o , which virtually all of the Company a t t e n d e d . The best wishes of us all go to Ray and Elaina and hope that they have a happy life together. W02 Jim Sharrock having decided that the medical facilities weren't quite up to standard decided to wait until he got to Miami before reporting sick. On returning to APC he promptly left again for a weeks leave in UK. Anybody sighting this elusive character is asked to submit a report to this location by the fastest possible means. Sergeant Bob Law has been wandering around in a daze since hearing that he has been selected for promotion. Perhaps that had something to do with the fact that he forgot where he had ' parked ' his Land Rover. Speaking of promotion, Belize City is still trying to recover from ' Hurricane Jimmy Foster' who has been celebrating his promotion to substantive Staff Sergeant — |
| Book number | R0406 |