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RAF in 21st century?

#1 Post by ricardian » Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:16 pm

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#2 Post by ian16th » Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:23 pm

ricardian wrote:
Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:16 pm
Thank goodness I was demobbed in 1973!
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#3 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:13 am

Remind me how long they have been upgrading the accommodation. I think they pulled down the new accommodation at Akrotiri. Large, comfortable, a veranda, only a bathroom, no shower. Only 50 years old.

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#4 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:37 am

Energy efficient accommodation? Yeah sure! I bet they will still have set dates for switching the heating on and off regardless of the outside temperature. :ymdevil:
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#5 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:45 am

ricardian wrote:
Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:16 pm
Thank goodness I was demobbed in 1973!
I notice the man putting his name to that business-speak BS is the same one who featured in the cringingly embarrassing man-love Christmas video :-q :-q with the CASWO - further lowering the other Services' opinion of the RAF. (From comments made on other forums it would appear that a message from on high has been circulated warning serving personnel not to make comments about the video on social media).

There was a time when such a display would have had the SIB knocking the door down and and instant discharge papers been served - times have changed though, at least it's not compulsory.....yet!
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#6 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:13 am

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#7 Post by Rossian » Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:26 pm

Where is this video 4ma? Somehow it seems to have passed me by - is it because I is old?

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#8 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:26 pm

4mastacker wrote:
Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:45 am
to that business-speak BS

I do wonder why I didn't see "RAF blue sky scenario" midst the corporate business babble?
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#9 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:49 pm

Rossian wrote:
Sun Dec 13, 2020 3:26 pm
Where is this video 4ma? Somehow it seems to have passed me by - is it because I is old?

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It's on Fill Your Boots (@MilitaryBanter)/ Twitter page. Scroll down to 18November and twittedtwatted tweeted by Ex Owls.


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