I hope this is OK Cindy, please delete if it infringes any rules.
All ex RAAFies on the road, please note a new Facebook page called ex RAAFies grey nomads, it's worth being a member.
Cheers
Cupie said
10:56 PM Aug 5, 2016
How about a sub forum on here .. just like Solo GNs .... eg. Ex RAAF GNs ...
Eaglemax said
11:19 PM Aug 5, 2016
At Barkley homestead May 2016 watched a fellow struggle with new knees getting into the pool. Had a conversation. Told me he spent 31 years in the RAAF. I told him I spent 3 years also in the RAAF. He looked at me. "I know you"
"Nah I said, I was in it between 1973 and 1976." Eventually I told him I spent 45 minutes on Darwin's tarmac after cyclone Tracy, unloading a Hercules aircraft. "That's where I've seen you". That was in 1974 ...41 years ago. I was 18yo. Amazing.
Cupie said
09:23 AM Aug 6, 2016
Huh ..
I just missed you Eaglemax.
I was in Darwin during the restoration phase . From April to July 1976. By then there was A/C in our pub & lots of cold beer despite the national beer strike .. but that's another story.
Not in RAAF though. My 'Service' was with the Cut Lunch Commandos .. "drop shorts'.
Phil C said
10:53 AM Aug 6, 2016
Cupie wrote:
How about a sub forum on here .. just like Solo GNs .... eg. Ex RAAF GNs ...
I may ask Cindy for that one... Great idea
brickies said
04:01 PM Aug 7, 2016
You could call it Penguins , All have wings but can't fly .
aussie_paul said
04:09 PM Aug 7, 2016
brickies wrote:
You could call it Penguins , All have wings but can't fly .
I hope this is OK Cindy, please delete if it infringes any rules.
All ex RAAFies on the road, please note a new Facebook page called ex RAAFies grey nomads, it's worth being a member.
Cheers
How about a sub forum on here .. just like Solo GNs .... eg. Ex RAAF GNs ...
Huh ..
I just missed you Eaglemax.
I was in Darwin during the restoration phase . From April to July 1976. By then there was A/C in our pub & lots of cold beer despite the national beer strike .. but that's another story.
Not in RAAF though. My 'Service' was with the Cut Lunch Commandos .. "drop shorts'.
I may ask Cindy for that one... Great idea
lol, good one Brickies
Aussie Paul.