Best Job Ever

[GD on Wheels]

MT at RAFH Wegburg 87-89 only need to add one word NURSES DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[sorbs]

I've got a load of great memories and met some fantastic people during my time. My stand-out tours have to be: Belize 82-83, Bruggen 85-89, 2 tours of Ramstein 95-98 & 03-06, 2 tours in recruiting especially Edinburgh 98-01, any of my shorts stints at Hereford, and my time last year in Afghanistan. And, I'd better mention the month I spent on the Accounts Managers cse and 4 months in FI with KingGuin!

 

[SgtScribbly]

wasnt a job as such, but the time I spent on my PandA course at Hereford in the early 90s was pretty much the best time i have ever had in the RAF

just a shame I cant remember any of it!

 

[vinnyvx2]

2002 CDS' Liaison Team Washington DC, very very interesting job, great appartment, great rates and a lovely location.

2001-2004 SPS2a1, High Wycombe Only SNCO in the RAF employed writing personnel policy. Loved the job.

94-95 Goose Bay PA to Stn Cdr and half a dozen secondary duties that kept me down the boat club messing about on the water. Skidooing all winter and a holiday every 3 months.

 

[tacadmin]

Best job ever has to be the 4 months I spent as JNCO Admin up at Byron Heights in the Falklands.
The job was just pure random!! My only real admin related duties were welfare phone cards, and a small registry. My main job was Bar Manager (I know!), JNCO MT, and Helicopter Site Manager. That's why we're on Higher Pay Boys and Girls!
Just 18 people up there altogether, and highest rank was a Chf Tech TG3. We had a ball.

 

[shiny_arse]

Hello again - for those who know me - been a wee bit busy over the last few months so apologies for lack of posts, but I is back

A good toss up between PSF Uxbridge during the mid 90s (yank bar, friday beer calls, sports bar BBQ's & so on)

OR

Ay Nik (end of 90's) as 33 SU disappeared but joy of joys that magical place called The Comet Club

 

[The Masked Geek]

Cleaning a bakery floor on Saturdays, circa 1990.

The millionare owner gave us mop-monkeys more respect than RAF "management DT_Xtremez_31:" and we used to get free cakes and pop when we'd finished. Ace.

 

[busbyboy]

Best Posting Ever?

Best Posting Ever?

Not sure I can decide between Kinloss/201(FB) Sqn, Episkopi/112 (Shark) Sqn, Uxbridge, Rheindahlen x 3, Scampton, Coltishall/54(F) Sqn, Brit Emb Bonn, Lossiemouth or SHAPE.

Best jobs: Sqn Clk, Sqn Adjt, PA/Stn Cdr, PA/Dep CinC, Embassy and SWO...!!

Best experience: European Cup Final Rome 1977 from Rheindahlen - what an awesome event.

Good memories of another life - those that I can recall anyway.

 

[mick-a-nick]

16 Sqn RAF Regt 1973 - 1975 and all the places in between.
RAF Tenby - Oh the days spent looking out to sea and at the tourists!
Rheindahlen 88-93 (Before the influx of the CGC -Creeping Green Cancer = Army)

 

[Warwick Hunt]

Toss up between what I have now on 22 Sqn SAR, but not the same since I moved from North Devon to Valley or my last OOA in Basra, the job there was awesome. If had not been for the wife I would have extended my time.

That Basra job was OK mate, not brilliant, but OK. The edge was taken off by a certain c0ckhead SO3.... If I'd known you wanted to extend I'd have squared you away!!!

My best job was my time in HQBF Gibraltar from 01-04, working in the registry. Great place, job was easy and a pop star's lifestyle. Mind you, my current job at I of R is coming a close second.

 

[Boarderlyne]

Agree with shiny_arse that Uxbridge was a hoot, but would have been miles better if the little **** hadn't introduced me to the first wife!

Wattisham in 98 with the Big Yellow Taxis was brilliant, as was my time up in Buchan. Great location, shame about the majority trade! But one of the top tours has to have been my time on TMW. Now why could I not have been posted there while I was a singlie??? One of the few jobs that took promotion or overseas to prise me out of there. And KG knows that I enjoyed the fact that I had to take bromide every morning before I came to work!! DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[algy]

I Was There, Butlater On!!!!!!

I Was There, Butlater On!!!!!!

Afcent 1970s. All booze no work. Party time every weekend.

I was there, but a bit later on. Time of our lives; kids were young and we travelled Europe, most of it anyway.

 

[Crabbity Ann]

As sad is it is, my best time in the RAF was trade trg at Chicksands. That's where me and my best mate became best mates and we partied the whole way through. Over summer too so day long boozy block BBQs every weekend. My only regret is that I look seriously hungover and stoned in my pass out pic DT_Xtremez_34: (don't worry, I wasn't actually stoned)

It's all gone down hill from there...DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Inevertouchedit]

Brawdy, late 80s - THE best kept secret in the Air Force.

Easy 24hr (lunchtime to lunchtime) shifts. P*ss easy jets to work on, just used to refuel & sign 'em up !!

Summers were awesome, the place was heaving with holidaymakers desperate for a length with a nice young serviceman.........like me, & they did.

H'West & Tenby on the weekends for more of the same.

*sigh* I want to be 22 again.DT_Xtremez_30:DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[muttywhitedog]

Brawdy, late 80s - THE best kept secret in the Air Force.

Easy 24hr (lunchtime to lunchtime) shifts. P*ss easy jets to work on, just used to refuel & sign 'em up !!

Summers were awesome, the place was heaving with holidaymakers desperate for a length with a nice young serviceman.........like me, & they did.

H'West & Tenby on the weekends for more of the same.

*sigh* I want to be 22 again.DT_Xtremez_30:DT_Xtremez_30:

Sounds like at least one member of TG 17 should have been on the higher pay band a long time ago!DT_Xtremez_35:

 

[Xscribed]

So many!!

So many!!

Like a lot of you, I don't think I ever had a bad job. From the General Office to Brit Line Sqn at Brize, P&Org and the Intelligence Branch at STC, then a tour at SHAPE, followed by AFCENT, a wonderful time at CRANWELL, and then 18 years in DLS at MOD, travelling the world, until I finally left in 99 to start my own business, where I have also thoroughly enjoyed myself. Charmed life, I guess!! I get the feeling it's not as charmed now for people as it used to be!!

 

[the_crab]

Looking back I did enjoy all of my 26 years, but the best had to be my 2 AFCO tours Glasgow 1998-2000 and Inverness 2000-2002.

Some of the kids came back to thank us and I even ended up working with one or two (might have given myself away there) hard work but to anyone thinking of it, do it it's very rewarding.

 

[Geordie4Ever]

Funny old thing best job AFCO Inverness which is sadly coming to an end and being on the MoDSAP Team in Riyadh. Free villa, 4.6 ltr car, a houseboy to do the dishes and house cleaning (tried to bring him back but was rejected at customs as he had a job and could fend for himself financially) swimming pool and an amazing holiday allowance of around £4500 every 4-5 months to spend on flights, hotels and fast (very fast cars) just don't tell the Guardian. Oh the good old days when the RAF was about working hard and playing hard not passing your fitness test every month.

 

[CC]

N.Ireland in the late 80s. Yeah it was a bit dodgy but Belfast on a Saturday night was just the dogs. Best singly tour ever.

 

[KingGuin]

Funny old thing best job AFCO Inverness which is sadly coming to an end and being on the MoDSAP Team in Riyadh. Free villa, 4.6 ltr car, a houseboy to do the dishes and house cleaning (tried to bring him back but was rejected at customs as he had a job and could fend for himself financially) swimming pool and an amazing holiday allowance of around £4500 every 4-5 months to spend on flights, hotels and fast (very fast cars) just don't tell the Guardian. Oh the good old days when the RAF was about working hard and playing hard not passing your fitness test every month.

Did that tour too, may just go back.