Next reunion 25-27 April 2003 |
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Col Price
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I was commissioned as an AEO in early 1968 and was posted to Townsville for about 5 years to fly on the SP2H Neppy. That was a lot of fun, and to quickly summarize the rest of my career, I was flying on the HS748 nav trainer out of East Sale, numerous staff jobs and courses in Canberra, Edinburgh and Glenbrook (Sydney), then back to flying in the P3 out of Edinburgh. In the early 90’s I survived an exchange posting with the US Navy at a place called Moffett Field just south of San Francisco, then finished off in Canberra at the Aerospace Centre developing strategic doctrine for the Air Force.
In 1972, on a posting from Townsville to East Sale, I married my wife Maureen, and we’re still married. (It’s surprising the number of blokes that still are-tb). Our two children were born at the Gippsland District Hospital (is it still there?) but have now flown the nest, and Maureen and I are about to sell up in cold old Canberra and move to God’s Country-Queensland-to buy and settle down at last. I need to get back to the warmth and into some serious surfing again.
I fondly remember a lot of the blokes from Radschool-most were rebellious ratbags, but a hell of a lot of fun. Some of the things we got up to back then seem to have become embellished with the years and surely couldn’t be as outrageous as I remember them, (They bloody were-’cos I was there too-tb). Names that spring to mind from back then are, Graeme Benthien, Pete Shoutens, Alan O’Connor, John Butler, John Mathwin, Ian Turner, John Riebling, Paul Frost, Wayne Ison, Evan Wyatt and radtechs like Brian Warner, Dave Maxwell and Jeff Day who also remustered to AEO. There are many more whose names I can’t remember, but their faces are clear-scarey. Those sort of characters just don’t seem to be around anymore-maybe it was just the 60’s that did it to us ... ... ...
Anyway - keep up the great work of keeping us strung together in some form through the newsletter. I hope to catch up with a bunch of you now that I am released from the shackles of Ronny RAAF.
Good to hear from you Col - don’t forget the next reunion on Anzac Day 2003-and you’re right - it was fun.
A blonde woman is driving down the road. She notices that she's low on fuel, so she stops at a servo.
When she's finished refuelling she notices that she's locked the keys in the car, so when she goes inside to pay, she asks the attendant for a metal coat hanger so that she can open the door.
Ten minutes later the attendant looks out and sees her still thereso he goes out to see if he can help. When he gets to the car, the blonde has the hanger wedged in the window and is moving it around and around while the blonde inside the car is saying "A little more to the left ... a little more to the right!..."
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Jenny Abbott (left) who used to be at Laverton in the mid 60’s has been on the sick list for the past few months, but we now hear she’s on the mend and should be back to her old happy smiling self very soon.
In her younger days (shown below) she was known as Jenny Wren, but she married and moved to the West where she now lives.
We hope she’s well enough to come to the reunion next year.
We hear she and husband have just bought a 4x4 and a poptop van-so next April, all being well, we hope to see the van hitched up and heading for Brisbane.
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In order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself: "MANKIND." Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean???
It's a complete mystery ... and so is mankind!
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