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12 RMT. |
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Back row: P. Sharper, John Blenkinsop, M. Griffin, S. Lawson, M. Agostino, Dave Peacock, Jim Chadd, Terry Houston, G. McGlincey, Kevin O'Neill, Lindsay Rice, Dave Murray, J. Cranny, Frank Jenkins. Front row: J. Terry, Brian Miller, Peter Fitzgerald, John Brockington, Brian Emery, Kev Stapleton, Russell Gabriel, Peter Nelms, A. Jones, Carl Pickering, J. Dorrell. |
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12 RMT started course on 22 May 1967 and graduated in August 1968. The course consisted of CAT1A and CAT2A trainees. CAT1As were those who went directly to Radschool from recruit training, whereas CAT2As went to Wagga first for a bridging course. It was nominated as an 'Air' course. As a general rule each consecutive course was nominated air, ground, air, ground, etc. The system didn't seem to be very technical (or democratic) regarding the allocations and usually it was the luck of the draw as to whether you ended up as a Radtech-Air or a Radtech-Ground.
Most of the course were singlies with only a few baggers. The singlies were accommodated in the three-story brick block opposite the ASCO canteen. The previous course (11 RMT) were in the same block and had quite a few Malaysian Air Force members on the course.
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15 TTC. 1985
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Back ROW L-R: Peter 'Blitz' Kreig, Hans-Robert 'Fritz' van Amstel, Ted Hughes (WOFF), Bob (Scrubber) Scrivener (WGCDR), Ray 'Spider' Worner. FRONT ROW L-R: Tony 'Ant' Kociuba, Michael 'Mick' Murphy, Noel Quarrel (Ex WOFF), Dave Webber, Laurie 'Tippo' Tippins. Photo courtesy 'Fritz' van Amstel.
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John Donohue (Inst), Ted Strugnell (Inst) and John Broughton (Rad) at the Anzac Day march in Brisbane 2002.
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The Canberra.
After the story on the Canberras in our previous edition, we received the above photo, but we’ve lost the details on who sent it. It shows a Canberra at full chat, and the sender thinks it was taken in Biak about '78. The sender reckons it’s not a touch up job but is ridge and he says if you blow the photo up you can see two Indons on a motor bike that managed to stay upright as the thing roared on overhead. Which-ever, it’s a good shot. If you can put some details to the photo we’d like to hear from you, and if you sent it in the first place, please get in touch again.
Dave Muir-McCarey used to work on the Canberries when he was at Amberley in the early 70’s, and he reckons they were a mongrel to work on. Dave says the worst job was getting the old Green Satin doppler radar out for service. It was situated down the back end of the aeroplane, up under the tail section, and you needed three elbows and the strength of Hercules to do it. There was a pully system that ran along a little track, installed in the aeroplane that was meant to be used but Dave reckons it was heaps easier to do it the old fashioned way—by hand. And putting the damn thing back was just as hard, he reckons, it needed two blokes to do it, and with the two blokes and the weight of the set right down the back, the nose wheel nearly always lifted. Dave remembers one occasion when he was tuning the HF which was in a rack next to the navigator’s seat, with his head down and his bum in the air. The electricians hooked the frame and his bum up to a mega and spun the handle and that’s how one HF set obtained a large dent - to the shape of his head…..
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(Not in order) R Chambers, C Charlton, M Deeke, R Dennett, H Dower, L Franklin, P Gustafson, I Guthrie, T Harrington, P Holdon, D Kidd, L Lindsay, Ted McEvoy, E Perry, M Pope, D Ripper, AV Smith and L Triplett.
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The value of undies.
Be careful what you wear (or don't wear), when working under your car...especially in public. A couple drove their car to K-Mart only to have it break down in the car park. The man told his wife to go and do the shopping while he fixed the car. The wife returned later to see a small group of people hanging around the car. On closer inspection she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the front of the car.
Although the man was in shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to stand the embarrassment she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand up his shorts and tucked everything back into place. On regaining her feet she looked across the bonnet and found herself staring at her husband who was standing idly by. The mechanic, however, had to have three stitches in his head.
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