Joined in 67........ RAAF. ADG 9 years. 1RTU. Amberley training. Williamtowm. Vietnam (Vung Tau) Williamtown. Vietnam (Phan Rang) Williamtown. Plus a lot of attachments and exercises.
Almost 10 years with 21 Sqn Reserves at Laverton.

OK I'll be the odd one here. Joined RAE (Engineers) 1974 Puckapunyal.

Stint at SME Casula, Instructor on Recruit Courses and NCO courses. Final 5 years as 

a Recruiting Officer in Melbourne. Retired in 1997. 

Phil C wrote:

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NeilandRaine wrote:

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Joined in 67........ RAAF. ADG 9 years. 1RTU. Amberley training. Williamtowm. Vietnam (Vung Tau) Williamtown. Vietnam (Phan Rang) Williamtown. Plus a lot of attachments and exercises.
Almost 10 years with 21 Sqn Reserves at Laverton.

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 Gday Niel,

Were you at RTU in 1968? I was on course 907 with Kev Dransfield, ADG and later a loadmaster on hercs.

Small world.

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no mate was in Vietnam in 68 I do know Kev not sure if it was Williamtown or Vietnam in 70 From memory he went to Chopper crewman before Hercs

-- Edited by NeilandRaine on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014 01:26:48 PM

Great topic Phil. My conscription number did not come out. Being home on the farm it was a blessing. If I had been called up I probably would have developed Diabetes then and possibly died in Vietnam..

I have a great respect for all who served our country.

Aussie Paul. 

Australian Army - RaSigs 1991 - 1997.
1RTB Basic Training 91-91
School of Signals 92-92
7Sig Regt Electronic Warfare 92-96
Oakey Base Comcen 97-97
Oct 97 Medical Discharge. 10/97.
Radio Operations and Communications Room Operations Operator.

Now please note by reading the dates above don't think I am young as I was just young enough to make it through before the cut off age for entry to the services.
As I was 34 years old when I went through Kapooka which is a lot older than most of the idiots they had in there at the time.
Anyway had a good time while I was in the service but there was times when I was glad that I am now out, and there are times that I wish I was still in.
As I have seen a few friends before my last heart attack while I was working in security at the local bases, and one of the guys was the 2IC of the Regt and
when I first me Phil he was only a Corporal, and the Adj was a digger like me.
Anyway that is my story of my service.
Cheers for now.
Barry.

I rode around for a while with B squadron 4 cav and my hearing has never been the same which is a bonus at times when my missus is giving orders

Hi Phil

RAAF Joined Feb69, RTU EDN,  Cat2BT Wagga as MTFITT,,, did that for 10 years at 1SD, 1FTS, BSWLM and 481 SQN WLM.

1979 Commissioned into ATC (5 years too late IMHO due to pain the ar** EDO) Pt Cook, ESL, RIC, BUT and DAR.

Resigned in 1989 as they were gunna send me back to Sydney or Melbourne areas.

7 years active reserve 13 SQN DAR , converted to AIRDEF as we were training reserves to be ASOP's.

1996-99 full time back with ATC at DAR (they were short of ATC's and rang me and offered 1 year, said make it 3 and they couldn't say yes quick enough), so I was fortunate enough to top up DFRDB ( I was smart enough NOT to convert to the new one) and the young guys called me a dinosaur, but I laughed all the way with DFRDB.

1999 made the break, they took my RAAF base pass to allow me onto base so that was it for me.

Assist Sec Brighton RSL in SA and on many RAAF Facebook sites and caught up with guys I haven't seen or heard of from 69 and early 70's.

RAAF was absolutely a great life, one big family in most of my time.

Cheers Baz

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Agree with the family stuff Baz, you may have known Grant Elders, he was an ATC when I was at EDN, top bloke.

I have seen a few RAAF sites but if you have a list of blogs etc I would be most grateful for a PM.

Cheers

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No never met Grant, Phil.

I'm on RAAF sites on facebook, search

ex RAAFies, Where are they now

RAAF days funny stories

there are sites for most bases, just different names etc.

I see names there and hit their FB page and it leads you everywhere.

Happy searching mate 

-- Edited by Baz421 on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014 11:14:36 PM

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 My Dad (rest him) was a choco (53rd Batt) and went to Kokoda. I have the greatest respect for all reservists and militia. Please feel free to post.

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 It was amazing the amount of veterans and ex service that ended up in the Reserves when I was in - there were a lot of ex Vietnam, couple of Malaya ,couple of Korea , some various little actions and other nasty places (eg Aden and Northern Ireland), and some in things "that didn't happen" and one of the cooks jumped at Arnhem. The stories told in the mess were ... interesting to say the least. But they were the guys that trained us.

My dad was ARES 40+ years(RAEME) Maternal Grandfather won MM in Syria and was in Borneo (RAE) Father in law was in Militia (light horse) pre WW2 and ended up in New Guinea.

I am surprised that there is not more ex army and Navy forming up in here.

Gday Cloak, looking good mate..

Someone asked me for a F111 photo. Heres a few

A123087....same apprentice intake as Cloak.

In Jan 74, out Mar 99.

Started out as a gunnie but finished as an Avionics Tech Weapons Specialist after the trade restructure.

Didn't we do this before? lol Phil uncle Al might be paying a visit..

Cut and pasted from the previous thread:

RAAF 1972 - 1994 RADTECHA / Avionics Tech
EDN Rookies 72
LAV - RADS Trade Training 72-74
AMB - 2SQN Canberra Bombers / 482SQN F111 W/S 74 - 80
WLM - 77SQN Mirage 80 - 82
BUT - 75SQN/3SQN Mirage 82 - 85
WLM - 77SQN Mirage / 2OCU Hornet 85 - 90
LAV - RADS Maint Flt 90 - 94
WLM - TFLM Desk. 94 and got out.

Some more pig pics..

Wish i had photos of my rifle and pack

Les