RAOC Gazette - page 311
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Early date | 1983 |
| Late date | 1983 |
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Cfjt Station jSttosi a t ^omt Headquarters DCOS ORD 1 /5. Congratulations are due this month to Conductor Mick Matthews who, on being relieved by SSM John Hall, joined the Commissioning Course at Deepcut before taking up his first appointment as an officer with 5 Ordnance Battalion. We also congratulate Major Stewart Crowe on gaining his majority. We welcome to the branch Lieutenant Colonel Peter Chambers from 51 Ordnance Company in the new SOI Ord 1 post and Private Jeremy Glass on posting from Training Battalion and Depot who is with us ' for his sins' for ten months, and say farewell to Captain David Caldwell who is going to join the Penguins in the Falkland Islands. Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Havvley, the last surviving mem- ber of the now defunct DGOS Secretariat, has finally left us and we wish him all the very best of health, happiness and good fortune in a well earned retirement. completed the Nottingham Marathon and are satisfied with their respective timings! Unbelievably not long afterwards Sergeant Buck slipped his foot off the pavement outside Building 155 while talking to Major Murray and is now plastered and hopping around on two crutches. It must be the naff break of the year! Corporal Joe McDonough has returned from his EPC Course at Donnington, apparently he enjoyed the mental stimulation and awaits the results with quiet optimism. Captain Collett has just returned from a Management Course at the School of Ordnance and will no doubt be putting theory to practice. He managed us very well before the course, hence our reputation for being a ' Model' Section. Well, we do have the finest collection of model plant and earthmoving equip- ment, displayed in a velvet lined glass cabinet, suitably illuminated with strip lighting, the envy of all other Provision Sections in Chilwell. We welcome Major Cantor and family to Chilwell, we hope they enjoy their stay. Finally sad farewell to Captain Manners, Sergeant Martin Curley and Lance Corporal Chris Corish, who have now departed for UKLF at Wilton. Directorate of Supply Computer Services • OUR Director Brigadier Spackman is more than ever busy preparing his handover notes for Brigadier Green who travels all the way from COD Bicester. We also welcome Lieutenant Colonel Bill Grant, Major Ian Coppock, Captain Tom Briggs, WOl Ray Bell, WOs2 Ian Mc- Arthur, Alan Lovegrove and Phil Gadsden. We bid farewell to WO I Dick Hope and W02 Alan Hendon (on transfer to the CSLI (Civvy Street Light Infantry). We also say farewell to Lieu- tenant Colonel Louis John, Major Dennis Icely, Major Terry Glen, Captain Jim Bridle, WOl Chuck Thomas and W02 Tom Watts on posting. Our congratulations go to Lance Corporal and Mrs Mick Iwanciw on the birth of a son, their first child (cigars all round, don't forget the author Mick). Congratulations also go to A/Sergeant Dennis Green on selection for promotion, W02 Phil Gadsden on sub rank and W02 Wally McKie on change of trade to Prog/Anal. On the sporting and leisure front, a party from DSCS have just returned from Wales, wet, windswept and with much to tell, but only after the language has been modified to a level suitable for the delicate reading tales of subscribers to THE GAZETTE. This also applies in the case of Staff Sergeant Dougie Dillow who was narrowly beaten in the final of the Garrison golf knockout championship by Mr Paul (Zorro) Upton of the Garrison Fire Service. Directorate of Supply Management VEHICLE DIVISION THE Section Christmas dinner dance is to be held on 7th December at the very popular Grange Farm Restaurant. It should prove a very enjoyable evening. The MT Spares Pro- vision Branch have formed a Social Committee to organise functions and activities. This will enable us all to meet many of our colleagues for the first time in a non-working environ- ment. The West Wing Lounge of the Sergeants Mess has been converted into a Junior Ranks Club, fulfilling a real need in Chilwell Station. We wish it every success. Corporal Alex Matthews incidentally will be the Senior Member, with his organisational flair it is bound to succeed. Sergeant Mick Buck and SQMS Graham Whittington both Training Centre SCHOOL OF ORDNANCE THE School is now well into the activities that are associated with the Michaelmas Term: course analyses; career planning for other people; operational research and critical path analysis for the Christmas social functions and, last but not least, bursts of concentrated high activity teach- ing. In other words, the cloisters and the halls of learning are humming to the tunes of academic ' thrusting and achieving.' During recent weeks various members of our Senior Com- mon Room have achieved some form of notoriety. Major Harry Truman, our tame US Exchange Officer, was .despatched to the States to pass on the condolences of the School to the New York Yacht Club. His family did well out of this because, since returning, he has reshaped the hull of his racing rubber duck in their bath. The recent Training Centre Exercise called County Fayre involved all the staff. Certain people featured prominently. Lieutenant Colonel Bob Cannons and his team were in a class of their own in the initiative tests. Watch out Bicester you're getting a born leader! Major Ray Turner got bumped and then soaked in beer for being one of the organisers—the latter friendly gesture was at the behest of Lieutenant Colonel Ian Bradley because he was made to go over the assault course twice. Fitness oficionados will appreciate why this individual contribution was an all ticket event! Lieutenant Colonel Charles Foskett has taken Mr Tebbitt's plea on job sharing to heart—we do his job Wednesdays and Friday afternoons and he does it for the rest of the week! However, the Staff of the School are assured by that expert on work measurement and information retrieval, Lieutenant Colonel Archie Clark, that this trait is part of a management development cycle for his much maligned assistant—Mrs Linda Mungavin. In fact, rumour has it that, without Lin, the School would come to a grinding halt. Another point worth mentioning is the fact that the Staff are always searching for the ' nirvana' of physical fitness. This thirst for achievement has now reached its zenith because owners of perfectly serviceable cars, Majors Aggett, Blatherwick, Cap- tain Willox, WOs Crabbe and Madden are all successfully com- pleting marathons. For those that have no such aspirations the world has come to an end because two wives, Cherry Turner and Elsie Willox, recently completed half marathons. 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| Book number | R0406 |