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RAF Cosford(Preview) | Gannitekos | 9 | 118 | |
| | Trade training/Apprentice tales. Come on you lot out there. There must be loads of embarassing tales to tell. ... ...
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Post RAF adventure(Preview) | Larry D | 1 | 35 | |
| | I had been de-mobbed a couple of years when I was contacted by a couple of ex-NZ soldiers that I had known in Malaysia where they had been on R&R from Vietnam.I was asked if I was up for a job and could I come out to Angola..One day the airline t...
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RAF Stanbrdge(Preview) | Gannitekos | 2 | 81 | |
| | Never had the pleasure of serving at Stanbridge, but I bet there are lot out there who did? ... ... ...
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RAF Tawau--Borneo(Preview) | Larry D | 1 | 47 | |
| | ... RAF Locking doing trade training,gets my posting RAF Tawau..Took the general office at Locking 2 days to find out where it was and then tell me I would be on active service...
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RAF Lyneham(Preview) | Gannitekos | 1 | 36 | |
| | Gannitekos ... admin ... ... Did a two month detachment at Lyneham, I never realised the place was so big until I actually got there. Worked in the Commcen for most of it. Don't think I would have actually liked a permanent posting there. I ...
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RAF Northolt(Preview) | Gannitekos | 2 | 37 | |
| | DreemKatcher - Taff Small ... ... Surely I can't have been the only siggie out there to have done a tour of this 'exotic' flying station on the outskirts of the Big Smoke !!...
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RAF Rudloe Manor(Preview) | Gannitekos | 1 | 41 | |
| | Did three tours here. I kept applying for it on return to UK so my kids could carry on their schooling in the same place, plus all their friends were in this area as they had spent most of their lives around here. ... ... Worked down the hol...
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RAF Gibraltar(Preview) | Gannitekos | 2 | 35 | |
| | Prior to my posting to RAF Gibraltar I was at RAF Rudloe Manor living in quarters at Colerne. A couple of weeks prior to my departure date, we set about cleaning out the accumulated rubbish that collects during a posting. The house was like a...
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RAF Prestwick(Preview) | Gannitekos | 2 | 29 | |
| | What a brilliant little unit. The strength was only about 50-60 personnel. Magic unit, Redbrae House was an old manor house, it was huge. It housed the General office, Commcen, ADNC (Air Traffic/Monitoring for Scotland). The Commcen was about...
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JSCW Winterbourne Gunner(Preview) | Gannitekos | 0 | 26 | |
| | FrankHugo ... ... The Joint School of Chemical Warfare or JSCW as it was known in the 1950's. A few miles outside Salisbury and just a short distance across the plain from Porton Down, the experimental station. I was posted there in 1955-ish...
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RAFNSU Tongeren/JOC Maastricht(Preview) | Gannitekos | 0 | 25 | |
| | RAFNSU Tongeren/JOC Maastricht 76-80. ... Went on the booze one day about a week or so before Christmas, toured all the various bars getting slowly inebriated, there were about ten of us. Started at dinnertime, so it had the makings of a long...
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RAF Finningley(Preview) | Gannitekos | 0 | 30 | |
| | Was at Finningley from Dec 72 until Mar 74. It was a great unit to work on and the working environment was great. I worked in the Commcen in SHQ. ... ... The work in the Commcen was interesting and varied. The PABX was just next door and the...
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RAF Upavon(Preview) | Gannitekos | 2 | 32 | |
| | DreemKatcher - Taff Small ... ... Big Communications Flight, Group HQ... Many should have passed through !! ... ... "Live Long and Prosper" ... ... ...
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RAF Ayios Nikolaos(Preview) | Gannitekos | 0 | 37 | |
| | Was out in Ay Nik 74-75, been there 6 months living in a beautiful house in Famagusta, when the Turks decided to invade. I was on nights at Ay Nik, we were put on a heightened state of readiness a couple of weeks before. I was manning one the...
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