RAOC Gazette - page 185
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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 | 1983 |
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| Colour | Yes |
| Grey | No |
| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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The Company now waits with baited breath the return of W02 (CSM) O'Flaherty from his drill course at Pirbright! The 53 Ordnance Company team which won the Batcson Trophy and the Martin-Jenkins Rose Bowl. 62 ORDNANCE COMPANY A few of those detached in the Falklands are returning, but others are going out: Staff Sergeant Roberts, Corporal Valinder and Private Haggart had six months away, whereas Private Camilleri has a month less. Private Jones has flown to Suffield and the prairie for six months. Welcome to WOl Land from 33 Ordnance Company who has taken over from WOl Braithwaite who has gone to the halls of learning at Deepcut, we wish him and his wife good fortune in their last year of service. Second Lieutenant Snaith, our training officer, goes to Shrivenham, he has been with us for eight months and has been our Chinook expert. We are used to the downdraft—and most of Company has had a ride. The inter-company athletics meeting revealed depth which we did not expect, and the Company won at the meeting at Gutersloh. The photo shows the sprint relay winners of Private Nicholson, W02 Wadley, Lance Corporal Ogden and Private Boylan. At the RAOC BAOR meeting on a very hot day, the Battalion team, who lost the star sprinter with an injury, lost the title to 3 Ordnance Battalion on a count back of firsts. Our administrative officer Captain Haslam is off on Long Look to Wellington. to BI. It was a sad farewell to Sergeant Corky Cockayne king of SIMMO and Sergeant Weedall the MHE master. No doubt they will have a good time in Kinetoh and Belize respectively. 6 Ordnance Battalion 61 ORDNANCE COMPANY ON the sports scene 61 Company has been busy. The Company football team won both the DOS Cup and the Bielefeld Garrison Minor Units Cup, the latter by beating 63 Company by three goals to two in the final. Second Lieutenant Hodder has done more disappearing acts to Berlin to play cricket and to the UK to take part in the Army Athletics Championships where he broke the BAOR Javelin record—well done sir. Five members of the MT Section left the unit to attend an RPC3 to 2 upgrading course being held at Bielefeld with Skill-at-Arms Instruction being carried out by Sergeant Deacon of this unit and we wish them all the best of luck. Detachments to the Falklands include Sergeant Major, Privates Dando and Maxwell and we wish them all well. We also welcome Sergeant Salter (MT), Lance Corporal Usher (PC and A) and Corporal Martin (ACQ whilst saying a sad farewell to Captain and Mrs Kay en route to Viersen, Sergeant and Mrs Crook, Sergeant Dean and Lance Corporal and Mrs Chessell to UK. Private Nicholson, W02 W a d l e y , Lance Private Boylan. Corporal Ogden and The DGOS visited us and met many of our soldiers: Private Dodd demonstrated the banding machine in the un- wind mode! The Company barbecue was a great success, with the side show of driving Ferrets, Spartan and Eager Beaver. Lance Corporal Pollock cooked excellent meat, and we say farewell to him as he goes to MHTU. Lance Corporal Taylor has just returned from being married and we will welcome his new wife when a quarter is available. 63 ORDNANCE COMPANY ' FIRE, FIRE, FIRE,' shouted Lance Corporal Nock and our CQRFFF (Civilian Quick Reaction Fire Fighting Force), led by Mr Cuthbert sprang into action and successfully put out a fire on board one of our CVRTs. The CVRT was being tested by Mr Sellers and Herr Goeke from the Workshop for fuel leaks when it suddenly burst into flames. Fortunately both managed to scramble out of the vehicle without injury. It was good to see that when the alarm was raised, the reactions of all in- volved was quick and all the extinguishers worked. Lucky for Sergeant Hadley! On the other hand we have also had over-reaction. On the one occasion when we were exempt call out on Active Edge, Corporal Smith (REME) happened to be Guard Commander. On receiving the first command ' Prepare,' he got it right and left us all in bed, however, on receiving the command ' Execute ' at about five o'clock in the moming, he got it wrong, and called us all in. As it was a Battalion stand down there were not many people around and those who were are not likely to let Corporal Smith live it down for some time! A recent check on what was going on in the MT Section revealed that they have at last excelled themselves. For the first We won the cup. — 1 |
| Book number | R0406 |