When I went through my training there,3 Wing was where the three junior entries hung their hats and did their basic square bashing on Maitland Square. After the first year, the even numbered entries moved on to 1 Wing for the next two years whilst the odd numbered ones went to 2 Wing and both had that nice Henderson Hill to march up and down each day I was in the 94th so I went to 1 Wing, one of my school mates ended up in the 95th and therefore 2 Wing.
Strangely enough, though we shared the parade square, the NAAFI and the ASDA theatre, sick quarters and the f*ckin' barber shop we rarely fraternised with each other, all rather silly really since once out of Halton, the "Entry" thing diminished to virtually nothing unless it came up in friendly banter.
One of the best military hospitals in the country was also located at Halton, Princess Mary's I believe it was. My sister who was a nurse at Queen Alexandra's Hospital in Portsmouth would quite frequently fly up to PM in a helicopter accompanying patients, who often were young matelots who has suffered head or spinal injuries as a result of accidents involving motorcycles. Most of the surgeons that practiced at PM were Harley Street Specialists and knew their way around the human body.
I remember there was a rather rotund male nurse there, a sergeant who was of the bent variety and who would cruise the roads just outside the camp and attempt to pick up apprentices who were hitch hiking their way home in uniform on the weekends. Once inside his VW Beetle he would make sure that his hand slipped off the gear shift and tried to find a totally different type of knob.
Fortunately I never ran into this perv but a few of my mates did and one weekend having discovered that they had all shared this unwanted groping, they decided to get back at him so the following weekend several of them hid behind bushes and a few lay in a ditch whilst one of them stuck his thumb out as he saw the approaching VW. Once the ****** stopped, the bait lad opened the door as if to get in, grabbed the key and turned off the ignition, at which time the rest of the lads came out of hiding and rolled the VW sideways into the ditch and left it there upside down complete with perv driver inside it who was shouting his head off that they couldn't do what they had just done because he was a sergeant and would have them all on charges.
The lads just took off back to camp laughing.
Needless to say, nothing more was heard of the event and the tw@t didn't seem to patrol the roads looking for victims after that. At least not close to Halton.
