propersplitbrainme
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Heard belatedly through another source that Pat King, CO at RAF Wittering in the mid 80s and one of lifes true gents passed away last November. Some officers etch themselves into your memory for the wrong reasons, Gp Cpt King did so for all the right ones and I've never heard a word uttered against the guy.
One morning I'd been to the cleaning bath at HSF from the OCU with an outrigger leg and was wheeling it back to our hangar down the peri-track when the COs car, flag a-fluttering, pulled up alongside me and out jumped Gp Cpt King. Here you go Cpl, stick that in here and I'll give you a lift he said, opening the pristinely carpeted boot of the car.
Er, are you sure sir....yes, yes, it gets cleaned anyway he replies.
OK. So in goes the outrigger and young denims clad Cpl PSB leaps into the passenger seat and has a nice chat with the big man back to the OC where the looks of incredulity as we pulled up and heaved the outrigger out of his car boot were a sight to behold.
RIP sir, one in a million.
One morning I'd been to the cleaning bath at HSF from the OCU with an outrigger leg and was wheeling it back to our hangar down the peri-track when the COs car, flag a-fluttering, pulled up alongside me and out jumped Gp Cpt King. Here you go Cpl, stick that in here and I'll give you a lift he said, opening the pristinely carpeted boot of the car.
Er, are you sure sir....yes, yes, it gets cleaned anyway he replies.
OK. So in goes the outrigger and young denims clad Cpl PSB leaps into the passenger seat and has a nice chat with the big man back to the OC where the looks of incredulity as we pulled up and heaved the outrigger out of his car boot were a sight to behold.
RIP sir, one in a million.
