Here
are some mug shots from my trip to Port Stanley in '84...... ahh....
fun in the sand at tanker pool. Shame the piss-ups weren't as good
as beer was literally "liquid gold" and you can't have a
good old knees up on one small can per person unless you can bribe
a SNCO to buy you a bottle of spirits.
The
Uganda and Keren were dry ships, so that was four weeks of utter
boredom, only broken up with gale force 13 hurricanes going
through the "roaring forties".
Below: The first two were taken in N.Ireland, '92-'94, must be a good MT
section if you get a car and a volunteer driver to take the boys out on
the piss. In the photo, Geordie Flavell, Paddy McKinstry, Me, John Devine
(duty driver) and Martin Gill. Second photo is John "Fu##nut"
Thomas after our weekly, 100 mile dash around the Irish countryside on our
Suzuki GSXR 1100's, how we never got pulled by the paddy cops I don't
know... well I do... they can't catch you in an armoured car if your doing
170 mph
The
third is of me and my elder brother Bob, at my younger brother's wedding
in Devon. The "plastic" FS airloady is now a Sqn Ldr at Wycombe,
in charge of sending all airloadies around the world, I bet he's made a
lot of enemies in the aircrew World.
Finally,
MT section RAF Benson, '91-'92, me front row, 3rd from left. I believe the
MT yard is now a fancy flight sim building for the new RAF chopper (
Merlin ?)
Keith
Moore sent this collection taken at Goose Bay circa 1987/8
while on detachment from bruggen.
Paul
Lund sent this picture of his wedding, "Getting married
the cheap way, too skint to buy a suit"
Hi
Ian,
Another
photo for mugshots, I found this one at the weekend while
sorting out some junk, I'm the one laying on everyone and the
only one I remember was David Dundas, he is now W/O MT at
Wittering. He is the one in the background with his hair parted
in the middle. This photo was taken July 1975 at Swinderby. See
the trousers ? Hairy Mary,s. By the way it was only Dave and I
who were MTDs in that photo. Its ironic that I met Dave at the
MT reunion at Wittering this year, its the first time I've seen
him since training, 34 years ago and it was as if we had just
walked back into the NAAFI the next day after the photo.
I
would like to thank you for all the hard work you continue to
put into this excellent site which brings back many happy (!)
memories from my Service days.
Coincidentally,
I now work with one of the Air Loaders who served at Gutersloh
during the same period and we always enjoy talking about the
'good old days'.
I
recently re-discovered this photograph of the Air
Movements MT Section at RAF Gutersloh taken sometime
during 1982.
From
left to right:
Herr
Johannes Wittop (known as 'Johnny'), Steve Magee, Pete
Sielski, Dave Belton, Cpl. Wilson Rennie, Pete Binks,
Chris Lacey and Neil Harley.
The
'Condec' in the background was one of two that we had
along with two 'Karrier Bantam Gamecock' baggage loaders
(for loading baggage into the tail hold of the VC10) and a
'Scissors' In-flight Catering Truck together with a couple
of 'Noddy Tractors', one of which (19AP52) is shown with
me outside the Gutersloh Air Terminal.
When
the wide body 'Tristar' was introduced into RAF service we
all had to attend a British Airways sponsored 'High
Loader' course at Hannover Airport, this vehicle having a
motorised platform that allowed us to load aluminium
baggage bins without manual assistance as was normal when
using the 'Condec'. The high loader, with SAC Rob Jepp at
the controls, and the 'Noddy Tractor', are shown working
alongside a British Airways 747 at Gutersloh during an
exercise when BAOR was re-inforced from the UK.
This
747 photo has two airman in blue shirts standing next to
the high loader. These are Cpls Ian Stockell and Dave
Pasquell, both MTD's, who along with Cpls Alf Zammit and
John Cockrem, were regularly deployed to the Air Movements
MT Section from Station MT during the many exercises and
deployments which took place at Gut.
A
photograph of myself taken on 'Logs 8' during 1983 at a
field site near Hovelhof, midway between Gutersloh and
Paderborn. The MTSS AEC Militant (I think) Recovery Truck
can be seen hiding in the trees on the right while one of
the large fleet of AEC 4000 gallon TTF's that Gutersloh
had is in the background.
