Ends of eras

[Oldstacker]

Seeing the thread about Wg Cdr Ayerst prompts me to ask this question.

Sir Michael Beetham was CAS during the Falklands War in 1982 but had previously had combat experience in WW2, which sounds a long time but is less than 40 years. So does anyone know who was the last member of the RAF with WW2 service to be demobbed?

 

[Entropy]

The font of all truth states that "As a Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Beetham remains on the RAF's Active List" So does that mean that he's still in?

 

[Flybynight]

The font of all truth states that "As a Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Beetham remains on the RAF's Active List" So does that mean that he's still in?

To misquote 'The Grand Old Duke of York':

'When he was in he was in
And when he was out he was out;
And when he was only half-way out,
He was neither here nor there.'

 

[chief remf]

All air officers remain on the active list and attend a briefing once a year. Used to be a Bracknell. Don't know where now though.

 

[vim_fuego]

All air officers remain on the active list and attend a briefing once a year. Used to be a Bracknell. Don't know where now though.

Sounds like a good excuse to exacerbate the gout...

 

[Flybynight]

All air officers remain on the active list and attend a briefing once a year. Used to be a Bracknell. Don't know where now though.

Used to be 5-star only.

 

[Flybynight]

Sounds like a good excuse to exacerbate the gout...

Not any Port in a storm, only the very best...

 

[chief remf]

Remember having to pay out travel claims cash on the day to them. However watching God miss a small flight of steps and go a over t and being reduced to tears of laughter didn't help my fledgling career at all.

 

[Flybynight]

Remember having to pay out travel claims cash on the day to them. However watching God miss a small flight of steps and go a over t and being reduced to tears of laughter didn't help my fledgling career at all.

Hickory dickory dock,
Three AVMs ran up the clock,
One fell down
And the others claimed travel allowance...

 

[morse1001]

At a meeting of the RAF Historical Society held at the RUSI in Whitehall. I found myself in a queue for the toilet. Sir Michael was at the Urinal, behind him was an AVM whose name I cannot remember. At times, I was thinking that at their ranks, they would have someone else to do that for them.

 

[terence]

At a meeting of the RAF Historical Society held at the RUSI in Whitehall. I found myself in a queue for the toilet. Sir Michael was at the Urinal, behind him was an AVM whose name I cannot remember. At times, I was thinking that at their ranks, they would have someone else to do that for them.

or at least hold it for them....am I allowed to say that?

 

[Warwick Hunt]

or at least hold it for them....am I allowed to say that?

I can imagine some poor LAC being "nominated" to carry out such a duty. With a SWO behind him shouting "Oi laddie, THREE shakes! Any more than that is a w@nk!"

 

[Flybynight]

I can imagine some poor LAC being "nominated" to carry out such a duty. With a SWO behind him shouting "Oi laddie, THREE shakes! Any more than that is a w@nk!"

Oh I see! Now I understand! I always wondered what the CASWO was for.

 

[morse1001]

I thought that they would have turned to their PAs and said, 'Smithers I need a ****' back would come the reply, 'yes sir
I will be back in five minutes.

 

[Flybynight]

I thought that they would have turned to their PAs and said, 'Smithers I need a ****' back would come the reply, 'yes sir
I will be back in five minutes.

Detachable penis, AOC for the relief of... Bayonet or screw fitting?

 

[morse1001]

Detachable penis, AOC for the relief of... Bayonet or screw fitting?

Bayonet fitting of course, none of this foreign rubbish.