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Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:51 am

I'll Go First:

Honington
Macrihanish
Gutersloh
Port Stanley
Wildenrath
Brawdy
Aldergrove

:ayatollah:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:53 am

RAF Locking
RAF Neatishead
RAF Benbecula
7SU Byron Heights ( West Falkland )

some of the above more than once for my sins :lol:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:56 am

Arbourfield
Marchwood(S'ton)
Belize x 4
Norway
Fallingbostel
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Kuwait
:ayatollah:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:01 pm

RAF Locking
RAF Waddington

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:08 pm

RAF Hereford
RAF Changi
RAF St Athan
RAF Bishop's Court

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:22 pm

Vintage 63 wrote:RAF Locking
RAF Neatishead
RAF Benbecula
7SU Byron Heights ( West Falkland )

some of the above more than once for my sins :lol:


You lucky bugger

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:24 pm

Pricey wrote:
Vintage 63 wrote:RAF Locking
RAF Neatishead
RAF Benbecula
7SU Byron Heights ( West Falkland )

some of the above more than once for my sins :lol:


You lucky bugger


och aye the noo :lol:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:29 pm

I feel all left out now, cos I'm still serving :cry:

Anyways fook it, I've done, so far:

RAF Odiham
RAF Uxbridge
Saudi Armed Forces Project (Central London and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh))
RAF Northolt
Kuwait and Iraq
RAF High Wycombe
and now at Northwood HQ.

Oh and Redditch TA Centre (blydi fire strike ;) )

4 years to do for my 22, then I'm out. Really can't see me getting promoted :oops:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:32 pm

Vintage 63 wrote:
Pricey wrote:
Vintage 63 wrote:RAF Locking
RAF Neatishead
RAF Benbecula
7SU Byron Heights ( West Falkland )

some of the above more than once for my sins :lol:


You lucky bugger


och aye the noo :lol:



I've always wanted to go there

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:56 pm

Pretty shitty postings for us all lads, probably had something to do with the FA posting Cardiff lads to unpopular dives.

i have to say Stanley was an experience I will never forget and Germany was just a three year piss up.

Great Days
Great Mates
Fantastic Times

Rita Pidsdale GSM

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:02 pm

my old man in rct, i lived in hanover,bunda,hamm,munster,thorny island, aldershot
he did n,ireland singapore,malasyia

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:04 pm

KyleV wrote:I feel all left out now, cos I'm still serving :cry:

Anyways fook it, I've done, so far:

RAF Odiham
RAF Uxbridge
Saudi Armed Forces Project (Central London and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh))
RAF Northolt
Kuwait and Iraq
RAF High Wycombe
and now at Northwood HQ.
Can't believe I missed out Mount Pleasant. Loved it there.
Oh and Redditch TA Centre (blydi fire strike ;) )

4 years to do for my 22, then I'm out. Really can't see me getting promoted :oops:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:07 pm

Dont get me started about Mount pleasant, looks like a holiday camp. I worked out of a portacabin in Stanley and slept on a coastel :old:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:09 pm

Rita Pidsdale wrote:Dont get me started about Mount pleasant, looks like a holiday camp. I worked out of a portacabin in Stanley and slept on a coastel :old:


Byron Heights rocks mate :lol:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:09 pm

Rita Pidsdale wrote:Dont get me started about Mount pleasant, looks like a holiday camp. I worked out of a portacabin in Stanley and slept on a coastel :old:



It's like butlins, but without the entertainment lol.
A pound a can does the trick though.

When where you in Stanley?

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:32 pm

Ok, still serving so here goes.

Aldershot
Osnabruck
Falkland Islands
Osnabruck
Hong Kong
Aldershot
Hereford
Colchester
Fallingbostel
Lichfield
London
Aldershot
Sandhurst
Wattisham
My last psoting ever Colchester (2011)

Op Tours:
Northern Ireland x 3
Op Granby
Op Telic x 2
Op Herrick x 2

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:08 pm

Bassingbourne
Leconfield
Camberley
Waterbeach
Inverness

Op Telic

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:46 pm

Big Ceri wrote:Ok, still serving so here goes.

Aldershot
Osnabruck
Falkland Islands
Osnabruck
Hong Kong
Aldershot
Hereford
Colchester
Fallingbostel
Lichfield
London
Aldershot
Sandhurst
Wattisham
My last psoting ever Colchester (2011)

Op Tours:
Northern Ireland x 3
Op Granby
Op Telic x 2
Op Herrick x 2


Ceri who were you with at Fally and during Op Granby?

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:13 pm

Gilfach Goch
Merthyr
Mountain Ash

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:17 pm

Denzil wrote:Gilfach Goch
Merthyr
Mountain Ash


I'll take it you were SAS!! :lol:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:51 pm

Fally is a shithole! :geek:

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:53 pm

Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:Fally is a shithole! :geek:


Its not so bad when your out and can do what you want :lol:
Went to a 7 Armd re-union last September and going back on the 9th Sept this year great crac!!!

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:59 pm

Dange wrote:
Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:Fally is a shithole! :geek:


Its not so bad when your out and can do what you want :lol:
Went to a 7 Armd re-union last September and going back on the 9th Sept this year great crac!!!


I'm currently in 7Armd coy! At this moment in time each day consists of drill, drill and more drill for the Freedom of Fally parade :(

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:02 pm

Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:
Dange wrote:
Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:Fally is a shithole! :geek:


Its not so bad when your out and can do what you want :lol:
Went to a 7 Armd re-union last September and going back on the 9th Sept this year great crac!!!


I'm currently in 7Armd coy! At this moment in time each day consists of drill, drill and more drill for the Freedom of Fally parade :(


Is that over the weekend 10-12th Sep or week before? We are staying in the Nato camp that weekend and will be drinking and eating in the workshop Sgts mess. If your around give me a shout and Ill buy you a beer!

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:21 pm

Crickhowell (training)
Tidworth
Warminster (Battlebury Bks demo battalion)
N. Ireland (Palace Barracks Bally McCarrat, Forkhill, Cross McGlen Maze Prison,Divis Flats, Londonderry McGilligan Prison) Oh the joys!!! :lol: :lol:
Aldershot
Belize
Hong Kong
Bobby Sands emergency tour (Spearhead Battalion)
Berlin
Crickhowell (recruiting team)
Aldershot
Canada x 3
Netheravon (support weapons wing)
Lemgo Sennylarger (Sp?)
Warminster School of Infantry (trials and development unit) ITDU
Plus many places I forget!! :oops:
Civvie Street.

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:42 pm

KyleV wrote:
Rita Pidsdale wrote:Dont get me started about Mount pleasant, looks like a holiday camp. I worked out of a portacabin in Stanley and slept on a coastel :old:



It's like butlins, but without the entertainment lol.
A pound a can does the trick though.

When where you in Stanley?


August - December 1985. 25 Years Ago :o

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:00 pm

Dange wrote:
Big Ceri wrote:Ok, still serving so here goes.

Aldershot
Osnabruck
Falkland Islands
Osnabruck
Hong Kong
Aldershot
Hereford
Colchester
Fallingbostel
Lichfield
London
Aldershot
Sandhurst
Wattisham
My last psoting ever Colchester (2011)


Dange

I was attached to 2 Royal Tank Regiment in Fally and I was serving in GW1 with 1st Bn Staffords.

ceri

Op Tours:
Northern Ireland x 3
Op Granby
Op Telic x 2
Op Herrick x 2


Ceri who were you with at Fally and during Op Granby?

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:14 pm

Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:
Dange wrote:
Carl_Dales_Left_boot wrote:Fally is a shithole! :geek:


Its not so bad when your out and can do what you want :lol:
Went to a 7 Armd re-union last September and going back on the 9th Sept this year great crac!!!


I'm currently in 7Armd coy! At this moment in time each day consists of drill, drill and more drill for the Freedom of Fally parade :(



Fally and the Freedom of Fally ( not that there's much there). When i was there they used to have cracking chinese there called "Wangs" oh also the usual Aldi and Lidl and the Ice Cream shop.
Great to hear thy've awarded the Freedom of Fally"
"The Aim of drill is to produce a proud, alert and obedient soldier and provide the basis for teamwork" as taken from the All Drill Manual. I have some sympathy for you I organised and executed the freedom of Stowmarket this year and knows just how much work and prep goes into the parade whilst trying to co-ordinate a flypast of Attack Helicopter.

Ceri

Re: Ex Servicemen - Where Were You Posted ?

Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:54 pm

I as in Narm :ayatollah:

:lol: