RAOC Gazette - page 330
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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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4 Ordnance Battalion HEADQUARTERS ON Exercise Eternal Triangle the Battalion has been tasked with running Headquarters NASA. A certain Lance Corporal was very disappointed when he discovered that NASA stood for Neutral Administration And Sup- port Area, and not National Aeronautical and Space Administration, because he had I always wanted to go to the moon. The CO quickly told him that if he does anything wrong on this exercise he will go to the moon. More about ET next month, including who wins the Golden Maggot Award. Congratulations to Lance Corporal Ian Bond on his sub- stantive promotion, mind you—he still hasn't got the drinks in. Finally, welcome back to Staff Sergeant Bob Sacre from his tour in the Falklands. 42 ORDNANCE COMPANY MAJOR DES TOWNSEND took the Company into the field for his first OC's exercise. CSM Bill Rice also participated in between snoozes, Sergeant Graham Ford learned that it is a good idea to use four wheel drive on muddy tracks and Private Roger Stoker won the award for practising heavy metal tunes on mess tins at inoppertune moments. Even the AO, Captain David Homewood, was seen with muddy boots. Lance Corporal ' Scuff' Williams, who had the previous week upstaged the RCT by winning both the Minden Garrison Driver of the Year and the Skilled and Safe Driver of the Year awards, showed the Company how to drive a ' Knocker' sideways, with a little help from the ' wrecker.' Corporal Keith Cope has departed for a five month tour in FI with the acting rank of Sergeant and Lance Corporal Steve Walton has temporarily been promoted Corporal to cover the having a go at the Cdo Course, and Private John Kelly is keeping Corporal Ian Aird company on a Radio Ops Course in UK. Well done to Private Scouse Tully on successfully passing his Sup Con upgrading to B2. MT bade farewell to Second Lieutenant Duncan Gibbons and Sergeant Eddy Hirst this month. Second Lieutenant Sandy Grogan has taken over as MTO. Other new arrivals are Second Lieutenant Harry Hawkins Power and Private Mark Harrison. A new arrival of another kind was a boy Jonathan Charles born to Lance Corporal and Mrs Tim Farr. Private Nick Mason is currently on a three month detachment at ICP Viersen and Corporal Alex Raeburn is at Bracht on his RPC1 course. Both Lance Corporals John BoIIand and ' C a p ' Capper successfully passed their Bl Dvr Courses. Corporal Roger Ball has retired as Unit Club Barman and returns to MT as Yard NCO. Lance Corporal Stewart takes over as FAMTO Store- man. There are new faces in the Storehouse too: Lieutenant Ian Ruddock has arrived to take over from Second Lieutenant Wally Astley, who has departed for the Apprentices College— how are the extras going Wally? Lance Corporal Steve Wrycraft has recently joined and we also welcome Private Bill Greer back from Canada. The Orderly Room continues to shuffle paper with Staff Sergeant Ron Mansfield and Lance Corporal ' Mitch ' Mitchell taking time off to play rugby now and again. Private Lewis Powell may be seen riding around on his bike in between playing football. One person not riding a bike since an un- fortunate accident in Soest, is Second Lieutenant Harry Hawkins, who is now Training Officer. Both the football and rugby teams have played fixtures. The rugby side are as yet unbeaten. The introduction of Major Des Townsend and Lance Corporal Paul Geraghty into the backs has strengthened the side. The pack is also turning in good performances. The football side aren't as yet quite as successful, but with new players being posted in the team is getting better all the time. Staff Sergeant Pete Learmonth has got a successful squad of runners together. They compete most weekends in anything from marathons to marches. Recently they attempted the Unna one hundred kilometre Volkslauf. The team consisting of Staff Sergeant Pete Learmonth, Corporal Martin Stevens, Corporal Steve Walton, Lance Corporal Mick Wisbey, Privates Phil Johnston, Jock Crockett and Derek Blade all did remark- ably well but a special mention must go to Corporal Stevens who finished sixteenth in his class in a time of ten hours forty seven minutes, and also Private Crockett who completed seventy five kilometres with an injured foot. A thank you to Mrs Selena Learmonth who did a great job as back up on her bicycle. Finally, congratulations go to Lance Corporal Karl Bowkis and Michelle on their recent marriage and to Lance Corporal Mick Wisbey and Carol on the birth of a daughter. ^^fl^^^ ^^H^^^k J^H^^^A ^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^V ^^^^^^V ^ ^ B ^ ^ Corporal Stevens, Private Johnson and Staff Sergeant Learmonth with Mrs Learmonth giving encouragement. ASU 4 ORDNANCE BATTALION IT is with great sorrow that we record the tragic death of the daughter of Captain and Mrs Brian Haycock of our Minden Detachment, as the result of a recent car accident in the United Kingdom. On a much happier note, we were very pleased to welcome Brigadier Andrew Paviour, Commander Supply 1st British Corps, to our small ASA Section at Lubbecke on his initial visit to this unit. Brigadier Paviour presented the C-in-Cs certificate for twenty five years service to one of our civilian staff. Hcrr Wilhelm Bredenkamp who had previously worked with the REME and NAAFI before joining the then Barracks Services, Lubbecke in 1970. Since taking over responsibility for Lubbecke from ASU Bielefeld we have said farewell to Mr Len Skentelbcry who has recently returned after ten years service as an AS, we wish him a happy retirement. STORES PLATOON 5 ARMOURED WORKSHOP SPORT has played quite a large part in unit life this month, with the inter-platoon competitions. The RAOC teams are now- being supplemented by the REME MT section and in the basket- ball competition the joint team were runners-up. Corporal Ken Hallam and Lance Corporal Ian Rigby, the RAOC representatives, were heard to mumble something about winning last time when the team was a hundred per cent Ordnance. Corporal Jim Munro, Privates Scouse Elliot and Geordie Cranney and the OC all took part in the Hohner ten mile road run, Private Elliot achieving the highest place of two hundred and forty ninth. The platoon was joined for two weeks this month by a group of six TA soldiers ranging from Staff Sergeant downwards. The aim was to give them some employment experience and I am assured this was fulfilled as their job in war would be to give ordance support to a TA REME workshop, much the same as our support for the Regular workshop. On the social side, the Workshop organised a Cowboy evening at which the platoon was given the job of running the bar. Thanks to Sergeant Dave Woollard. and his team for doing such a good job. The band for the evening included Corporal Jim Munro in its line up, who played everything from the banjo to a harmonica (at least that's what it sounded like, maybe he was just singing). Finally, good luck to Private Cranney on departure for his commando course, and farewell to Second Lieutenant Harry Hawkins. Best wishes to him, and welcome to Second Lieutenant Duncan Gibbons. 11 ARMOURED BRIGADE MUCH to the delight of all, manning requirements for Exercise Eternal Triangle (affectionately known as ET) are less than expected. Even though Staff Sergeant Martin Brown was very much looking forward to his last exercise in the Brigade he is not now required. Notice that M and RO did not miss him off the list after all and have recently confirmed his substantive promotion to Staff Sergeant—congratulations Martin. Private Tony Evans has been going about like a Cheshire cat recently, after having learned of his posting in November to COD Bicester. He could not wait to organise his farewell drinks. We are pleased to report that our BFT pass rate was one — 275 — |
| Book number | R0406 |